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Dear MECCSA Members, Please see below and attached the call for submissions for an essay collection I am co-editing with Dr. Joel Gwynne on Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, which I hope will be of interest to some of you. Please feel free to circulate this call as widely as you see fit and do not hesitate to get in touch with us should you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Very best wishes, Nadine Muller [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Feminist & Women's Studies Association UK & Ireland (FWSA) <http://www.fwsa.org/> <http://www.fwsa.org.uk/> <http://www.fwsa.org.uk/> www.fwsa.org <http://www.fwsa.org.uk/> .uk Public Engagement in Gender & Sexuality (PEGS) www.pegsuk.org <http://www.pegsuk.org/> <http://www.pgcwwn.org/PGCWWN_EVENTS.html> Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema - Call for Essay Proposals - One distinguishing feature of postfeminism is its acceptance, use and manipulation of its position within popular culture. The existence of postfeminism as both a cultural media phenomenon and a contradictory and contentious term within academic discourse raises a number of debates surrounding contemporary feminist politics and their status within as well as stance toward contemporary consumer and media cultures. Postfeminism is invariably invoked in discussions of not merely popular genres such as 'chick lit' but also in relation to a plethora of written and visual texts that invoke reconfigurations of femininity and female sexuality, often in order to emphasise and/or explore female solidarity as a discourse of 'shared pleasures and strengths, rather than shared vulnerability and pain' (Genz and Brabon, 2009). As such, postfeminism is frequently interrogated within the realm of popular media forms which centre around the visualisation of female sexuality. Since the publication of Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' (1973), female objectification has remained a popular and seemingly irresolvable site of conflict within feminist cinema studies in particular, revealing the complexities of the relationship between female objectification and empowerment. The editors of this collection invite abstracts for contributions which investigate the diverse manifestations of postfeminism in contemporary Hollywood cinema, be it in order to highlight its regressive realities or its empowering potentials. Topics for consideration may include, but are by no means limited to: v Reconfigurations of femininity and/or female sexuality v Raunch culture, the mainstreaming of pornography and the sexualisation of culture v Postfeminism as inclusive/ exclusive social practice v Representations of particular female figures (i.e. mothers, porn stars and other sex workers, housewives, career women, superheroes, etc.) v Genre-specific criticism (i.e. postfeminism in action, horror, rom-com, etc.) v Postfeminism and girl cultures v Postfeminism and ageing v Postfeminism as backlash Abstracts of 250 words for chapters of 6,000 should be emailed to the editors, Joel Gwynne ([log in to unmask]) and Nadine Muller ([log in to unmask]), by September 30th 2011. Deadline for completed chapters: March 30th 2012. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------