<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Call for Chapter Proposals: Women in Popular Culture in Canada<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-CA"><b>Deadline: March 1, 2018</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-CA">The Canadian Scholars / Women's Press is considering publishing a volume that explores women in popular culture in Canada. The volume is particularly interested in intersectional analyses of settler colonialism, racialization, and transgender representations and experiences in pop culture, broadly conceived to include discussions of film, television, music, and live performance, as well as political events, social media, fandom, and activism.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">There is a growing mainstream interest in gender inequities in media and everyday life—evident from the #Metoo and #TimesUp movements— but there is relatively little published on the historical and contemporary achievements and struggles of women in popular culture in Canada. This volume is not only a way to celebrate women’s work in this country, but also to create an alternative archive and “canon” of Canadian culture. With this in mind, we invite chapter proposals for timely, critical, and interdisciplinary accounts of women <span lang="EN-CA">in popular culture in Canada.</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">Possible areas for submission include:</span></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Questioning and dismantling a “Canadian canon"</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Indigenous women in popular culture in Canada</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Black womanhood in popular culture in Canada</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Trans and gender non-conforming characters in Canadian media</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Disability and accessibility in media development and reception</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Queer women of Canadian comedy, television and/or film</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Depictions and/or experiences of Women in hijabs, sheitels, and religious attire</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Gendering physical landscapes of / in popular culture</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">American or international depictions of Canadian women in media</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">“This is what a Feminist Looks like” Activism and Representation in Canadian culture</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Women in web-series, YouTube, Instagram, and social media</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Women and fandom</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Women in tech</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Women in Canadian folk music</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></li></ul><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.8px">The editor, Dr. Laine Zisman Newman, welcomes individual and co-authored proposals and chapters from both established and emerging scholars. The intended audience are undergraduate humanities and social science students in Canadian universities and colleges. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br><br></b></span><div><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Deadline: March 1, 2018. Expected length of abstract: <u>250 words. </u></b><u></u></span><u style="font-size:12.8px"></u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.8px"><br>Expected length of final chapter: 7000 words. Proposed deadline for full chapters: September 1, 2018. </span><div><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><b>Please submit chapter proposals to: <a href="mailto:laineyale@gmail.com" target="_blank">laineyale@gmail.com</a></b></span><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#000000">--</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#000000">Laine Zisman Newman, </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif">M.A., M.F.A, PhD</span></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#000000"><font size="2">Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies </font></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#000000"><font size="2">& Sexual Diversity Studies, </font></font><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif">University</span><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif"> of Toronto</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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