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Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture
Call for Contributors to a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in Popular Culture
For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in contemporary popular culture (1985-present), I am seeking essays that explore the complex depictions of tough women in popular culture. How are women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of tough women? How do different popular genres depict tough women? Are these new depictions progressive? How does popular culture depict tough women from different races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds? How is toughness in women constituted differently than in men?
The range of materials that could be addressed is vast: toys, television shows, films, video games, comic books, to name just a few. Essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material are welcome, as are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging; they should be of broad interest to scholars in many academic disciplines from the humanities, including history, women's studies, English, American studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies, and African-American studies.
Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes and references); accompanying photographs are welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita by October 1, 2002, to Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (inness@muohio.edu). Early submissions are encouraged.
[4/12/2002]
Enter the Debut Dagger Contest
The Debut Dagger is awarded to the winner of the Crime Writers' Association's annual new writing competition, open to anyone whose work has not been published before. Now in its fifth year, the Debut Dagger is sponsored by the publisher Orion, and by The Times.
Contestants have until Saturday 10 August 2002 to produce the opening pages (up to 3,000 words) of their crime novel together with a 500 word outline of its progression. Crime includes anything from historical mysteries and period whodunits to thrillers. There is an entry fee of £10 for each submission.
Professional readers assess the entries to produce the short list. Final decisions are then taken by the judges. The top ten entrants each win a parcel of crime novels from the sponsoring publishers and an editorial report on their entry. The overall winner receives £250 cash prize as well as free tickets and accommodation for two at Dead on Deansgate, the annual crime writing convention in Manchester in October.
For more information, see the Crime Writers' Association website.
[4/09/2002]
Henry Slesar Dead at 74
We've just received the sad news that longtime mystery writer Henry Slesar
died on April 2, at a Manhattan hospital. He was 74.
Slesar published over 450 short stories in the mystery and SF fields, seven
novels, and contributed more stories and TV scripts to the Alfred Hitchcock
television program than any other writer. He had feature credits on four
movies and was headwriter of five daytime serials. Slesar won two Edgar
awards (one of them for his first novel, The Gray Flannel Shroud, in 1958) and an
Emmy. He has written for television in Germany, and an entire series there
was based on his short fiction.
[4/07/2002]
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