Gender and 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 homosexuality and the pornography industry; masculinity and postfeminism; steampunk and gender; and the single mother in popular cinema.

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 ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]) by 1st July 2012.