Feminist Media Studies journal, ‘Commentary & Criticism’ Section
We, the incoming co-editors of Feminist Media Studies, Commentary &
Criticism section, invite contributions for the March 2006 issue on the
theme of ‘Gender, Media, and Religion’. We especially want to encourage an
interactive space for discussion in which writers respond to each other and
to events as they unfold over time.
The discourses of religion, religious nationalism, and religious
communities have assumed new global dimensions after 9/11 and 7/7. We
invite commentaries that seek to question, reframe, and think through the
gender politics of religion, religious nationalism, and religious
communities especially as they are constituted in and through the media.
How are women constituted as subjects of the discourses of religion,
nation, and community? Are women active agents and actors in constituting
these powerful imagined communities? What feminist perspectives can be
developed on questions that involve religion, media, and imagined
communities? How might these contribute to feminist activism in relation
to both marginal and mainstream forms of global media?
We invite short contributions (a maximum of 2,000 words, which may
incorporate photographs), in relation to these increasingly significant and
contentious issues, that set up the parameters of debate, or promote a
polemical point of view, report on work-in-progress or activist
initiatives, or review recent publications or conferences. Please send via
email to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] before October
14th 2005.
Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Usha Zacharias, Westfield State College, Massachusetts, USA.
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