[ecrea] cfp: IB Tauris International Library for Gender in Popular Culture

Gender in Popular Culture
Library editors: Claire Nally and Angela Smith

We invite proposals for monographs to be included in this new library 
for I.B.Tauris.

The library is located within the visual culture list at I.B. Tauris, 
but has a number of clear links with other series and areas of study: 
film, television, art, cultural studies, history and politics, and thus 
would engage closely with other I.B.Tauris titles, whilst nonetheless 
differentiating itself in a number of ways (a number of our monographs 
represent the first theoretical analysis of their subject).

Whilst gender is a heavily theorised subject, our library focuses on the 
work of innovative scholarly practice so that in many ways the 
monographs we would hope to commission are the first of their kind. We 
anticipate monographs which would be of relevance to a wide variety of 
disciplines related by the common theme of gender.

The titles in the library are the work of both established and emerging 
academics in a variety of disciplines who are analysing gender in 
relatively unexplored areas.  These innovative and avant-garde titles 
would enhance the existing catalogue of I.B. Tauris. Each monograph 
would be 70,000 words in length, and include a general introduction by 
the series editors to ensure that the links between the titles remain 
explicit.

Whilst being emphatically interdisciplinary, the 'visual culture' list 
allows for critical texts focusing on gender that would prove 
interesting to a wider range of readers in academia and beyond, and 
catering to an international audience.

Recently accepted titles include studies of gender in TV news 
technology; masculinity and postfeminism; steampunk and gender; and 
representations of the single mother in popular cinema. Forthcoming 
publications include an exploration of the homosexuality in early 
cinema, and an edited collection which explores gender and austerity in 
film, television and literature in the twenty-first century.

In the first instance, we invite proposals (to include a summary of the 
book's aims and subject matter, chapter headings and an indication of 
readership) of about 500 words to be sent to both co-editors 
((claire.nally /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) and (angela.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)) by 
1st October 2015.




Dr Angela Smith
Reader in Language and Culture
University of Sunderland
http://sunderlandcultureresearch.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sunderland.academia.edu/AngelaSmith
Twitter: @alegnasmith

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