Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:03:50 -0400
Subject: Call for chapters: please post




>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dr Lara B Lengel [mailto:lengell-AT-vptech.demon.co.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:25 PM
>To: comments-AT-monsoonmag.com
>Subject: Call for chapters: please post
>
>
>>>Could you please post this call on your website and/or pass it onto
>researchers, students and others who might be interested in contributing to
>the book?
>>>
>>>If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact
>me.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Laura Lengel
>>>
>>>
>>>__________________________________
>>>
>>>CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR A SCHOLARLY BOOK
>>>
>>>Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice:
>>>Women, Performance and Civic Discourse in Global Contexts
>>>
>>>in the Ablex Publishing Co. Series "Civic Discourse for the Third
>Millennium"
>>>
>>>Chapter essays are solicited for Intercultural Communication and Creative
>Practice: Women, Performance and Civic Discourse in Global Contexts. This
>book will examine the challenges and successes women face as public
>performers in global contexts, particularly in developing nations. Exploring
>women's role in music, dance and theater, the book will focus on women
>performers in post-colonial and orientalist contexts, which have rendered
>them as the exotic 'Other', or in other settings where women have
>traditionally been silenced from public civic discourse. It also examines
>how women performers are represented by the media, both the media of
>developing nations and that which is imported into developing nations.
>>>
>>>Drawing from feminist discourses emerging from the so-called 'Third
>World', the book problematizes the historical positions of women on public
>stages and how the past creates barriers to women's success as contemporary
>musicians, dancers and theatrical performers. The book examines
>architectural and spacial boundaries traditionally erected for women
>generally and women performers specifically. Moroccan feminist  Fatima
>Mernissi argues that "the ritualized trespasses" of women in the public
>sphere equates women, on stage and on the street, as prostitutes.
>>>
>>>The editor of the book seeks women authors from regions such as Africa and
>Asia, and those who have conducted field research in these areas, who
>interrogate the problems women face in the public sphere, the
>objectification and exploitation of women, and the historicized notions of
>femininity and sexuality in developing nations. While theoretically
>rigorous, the book will be accessible and engaging to both undergraduate and
>graduate students as well as scholars. The book will present women's civic
>discourse in a unique way - through an examination of the  intersections of
>intercultural communication and creative practice. Finally, the book looks
>to the future of intercultural and creative practice as civic discourse as
>women performers move into the Third Millennium.
>>
>>>Deadline for submission of one-page (250 word) abstract, preferably by
>e-mail: September 30, 1999
>>>Deadline for submission of essays: December 15, 1999 (details provided on
>website below)
>>>
>>>About the Editor and Series Editor:
>>>As a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia and an American Institute of Maghreb
>Studies Fellow in Tunisia and Morocco, editor Laura Lengel has conducted
>feminist and critical ethnographic work exploring women's role in music and
>the mass media. Her research and lecturing experience has spanned not only
>North Africa, but also the Mediterranean Middle East, Eastern and Western
>Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Her publications, which have appeared in
>Gender and History, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Convergence: The
>Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, address women's and gender
>studies, international and intercultural communication, ethnographic field
>research, cultural aspects of communication technology, and international
>cultural studies. She is also the editor of "Culture and Technology in the
>New Europe" in the same series. The Series Editor of "Civic Discourse in the
>Third Millennium", Dr Michael Prosser, Distinguished Professor of
>Communications at Rochester I!
>nstitute of  Technology, is author/editor of eight books on international
>and intercultural communication.
>>>
>>>Inquiries, abstracts and essays should be sent to:
>>>Laura Lengel, Ph.D.
>>>Assistant Professor
>>>Department of Communications
>>>The American International University in London
>>>1 St. Albans Grove
>>>London W8 5PN ENGLAND
>>>
>>>Phone: +44-171-603-3292
>>>e-mail: lengell-AT-vptech.demon.co.uk
>>>
>>>Web:    http://www.vptech.demon.co.uk/lengel/publications/call.html
>>>
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