[Commlist] CFP Additions to Volume Women and Hollywood: Tales of Inequality, Abuse and Resistance in the Dream Factory

Call for Papers

Women and Hollywood: Tales of Inequality, Abuse and Resistance in the 
Dream Factory (University of Illinois Press)

Edited by Karen McNally

Abstract Deadline: Friday 23 June 2023
Chapters Due: October 2023



The above volume is contracted with University of Illinois Press for 
their 'Women's Media History Now!' series edited by Kay Armatage, Jane 
M. Gaines, Christine Gledhill and Sangita Gopal.
This is an additional call for chapters on the following topics:

1. Inequality and/or abuse in the Hollywood film and television 
industries or its films during the 1920s or 1930s. This might relate to 
individual figures or the theme more broadly and would demonstrate the 
establishment of patterns evident in the industry or on screen.

2. Inequality and/or abuse as part of the experience of lesbian women in 
Hollywood's film and television industries or through representation on 
screen. An emphasis on the intersectional experience is key to this topic.

3. The exposure of abusive practices in Hollywood through the #metoo 
movement and the treatment of perpetrators and victims. Of particular 
interest is how inequalities might persist in the impact or otherwise on 
careers as these cases play out in the industry, the press and legally.

Chapter proposals should be submitted as a 300-400 word abstract to the 
editor, Dr Karen McNally, at (womenandhollywoodbook /at/ gmail.com) by Friday 
23 June 2023. Please include an author biography of 100-150 words. Final 
chapters will be circa 6,000 and due by end of October 2023. Please feel 
free to email with any queries prior to submission of abstracts.

Please see below for further details of the book description:

The Hollywood film industry in the 21st century has become synonymous 
with accusations of structural inequality alongside revelations of 
sexual harassment and abuse, the impact of which has rippled out to 
wider society both in the US and overseas. The pay inequalities raised 
by actresses including Michelle Williams and Octavia Spencer and the 
multiple rape and sexual assault charges and convictions against Harvey 
Weinstein and others have ignited the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. 
Simultaneously, organizations and initiatives such as the Geena Davis 
Institute on Gender in Media and Black Women’s Equal Pay Day have worked 
to challenge the structures and practices of gender inequality that 
exist in the American film industry and that reflect broader national 
concerns.
Yet these circumstances and the narratives that accompany them are far 
from revelatory, hidden or limited to a contemporary context. The power 
imbalances and mistreatment that have defined women’s careers in 
Hollywood are as long-established as they are persistent, have been 
built into the structure of Hollywood and stretch across its entire 
history. From the euphemistically- termed ‘casting couch’ to the control 
of stars’ reproductive choices, and from the indirect expulsion of 
female directors, to male ownership of women’s work and the multiple 
limitations placed upon women of colour, the professional experience in 
Hollywood for women has consistently been different from that of their 
male colleagues. This volume will address a variety of ways in which 
narratives are formed that illustrate and highlight these inequities, 
and those that actively challenge the structured culture that has 
persistently worked to enact them. Topics range from early cinema to 
contemporary film and television, and move between press and fan 
magazine narratives, screen dramatizations, studies of individual 
figures and broader industry practices.

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