CFP: War Stories: Gendered Analysis of Media Coverage
Due: March 31, 2005
Length: 1,000 -1,500 words (4-6 pages typed, double-spaced)
Over several decades, wars have become a staple item on the news.
Although bloody, protracted conflicts are regularly waged around the
world, the military intervention of multiple allied forces in
Afghanistan and Iraq has dominated international news coverage in
the West and domestic news in the Middle East since (at least) the
horrors of 9/11. Numerous scholars, cultural critics and media
workers have scrutinized coverage and highlighted the lacunae and
partiality in reporting practices but in broad terms, a gendered
analysis of media coverage has been strikingly absent.
The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies is
therefore inviting brief essays (1,000-1,500 words) which examine
media coverage of war and conflict with a gender lens. Although we
mention the specific post-9/11 environment, for this special issue
you can choose any conflict site, contemporary or historical. We
are seeking papers that examine how women figure in war reporting,
either as authors or objects of the news. Essays could examine how
violence against women figures in media stories or how war is easily
conflated with particular forms of masculinity or a victimized
femininity. Alternatively, you could focus on media coverage of
peace activists or the grassroots efforts of women’s organizations,
such as Women in Black, to form alliances with women across the
globe. In short, we are seeking critical essays which examine any
aspect of the media’s relationship with war. We are interested in
essays which focus on any genre or media, be it print, film, TV or
blogs, media production, texts and audience reception.
The essays will be part of a special issue of Feminist Media Studies
on “Media Gendering of War and Conflict”. All essays must offer a
feminist analysis of media processes. The stylebook for Feminist
Media Studies is available at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rfmsauth.pdf
Please email your essay by March 31, 2005, to both Karen Ross
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Send any questions or concerns to both of us. We look forward to
receiving your contribution.
With all good wishes
Sujata Moorti and Karen Ross
Editors, Commentary and Criticism Section, Feminist Media Studies
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Dr Karen Ross
Reader in Mass Communication
Director, Centre for Media, Arts and Performance
Coventry School of Art and Design
Coventry University
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Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
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