[Commlist] Call for book chapters : Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices

*Call for Book Chapters*

Contact info: (maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) <mailto:(maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)>; 
(stahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) <mailto:(stahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)>

*Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and 
Articulating New Voices*

*_Call for Submissions_*

This edited volume of Lexington Books (an imprint of the Rowman & 
Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.) invites scholars from a broad range 
of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Minority Women and 
Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New 
Voices”.The edited volume will join the Communicating Gender book series 
published by Lexington Books.

Representations of minority women are often limited and predominantly 
negative in much of Western mainstream media. The experience of minority 
women in the West can involve discrimination and misrepresentation not 
only because of gender but also race, religion, class, sexual 
orientation and perceptions of their otherness. Sub-cultures and 
community dynamics may further marginalize women compared to their male 
counterparts such that when minorities speak, it is in fact minority 
/men/speaking.

The research presented in this edited volume will examine existing 
representations as well as spaces carved out by minority women in an 
attempt to have their voices heard. Thus, the book seeks to scrutinize 
two types of media representations; the first is where minority women 
are passively covered in/by the media and the second where minority 
women produce their own content to tell their stories. Theoretical as 
well as qualitative and quantitative approaches are welcome.

Following these considerations, scholars are invited to submit their 
original manuscripts that address the following topics, among others:

·Critiques of representations of minority women

·Challenging stereotypical representations

·Women’s voices in new media

·Creation of new spaces for women’s voices

·History and development of minority media

·Community media with gender focus

·Other topics (please enquire with the editors in advance)

*/Please direct questions and submissions to the book editors:/*

Maha Bashri (Assoc. Prof) at (maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)>

Sameera Ahmed (Ass. Prof) at (stahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) <mailto:(stahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)>

*_Information about Submissions_*

Proposals should include the following: an abstract of 750-1000 words 
(not including references) as well as background information on the 
author(s), including an abbreviated bio and CV that describes previous 
and current research. Please submit your proposal as one file (PDF) with 
your name/s clearly stated in the file name and the first page. Send 
your proposal to the e-mail address (maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)> *_and_* (stahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(stahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)>  by the date stated in timeline below. 
Authors of accepted proposals are expected to develop and submit their 
original chapter, for review by the deadline stated. Submissions must 
not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another 
publication.Full chapters should target 6000-7000 words l (including 
tables and references) words in length using APA style (6^th Edition). 
All manuscripts will be peer reviewed by the editors, and the authors 
will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision.

*_Timeline:_**__*

*April 15, 2019:*Abstract submission deadline

*April 29, 2019:*Notification of abstract acceptance

*July 1,^2019:*Full chapter submission

*September 3, 2019:*Notification of chapter acceptance

*November 2019*: Expected publication of book


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