My partner, Julia McCrossin, is co-editing an anthology with her colleague Lesleigh Owen! The working title is "The Unbearable Fatness of Being: Enlarging Theories of Embodiment". They're calling for submissions, which are due Monday, November 1st. I am going to submit something faith-based, probably a sermon. The call is below my signature.
: - ) Mycroft
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Mycroft Masada Holmes
Chair, Interfaith Coalition for Transgender Equality
Member, Steering Committee, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
Emeritus Founding Chair, Transgender Working Group (TWiG), Keshet
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Call for Anthology Submissions
Tentative title: "The Unbearable Fatness of Being: Enlarging Theories of Embodiment"
Type: Edited anthology
Submission deadline: Monday, November 1st, 2010
Contacts and editors: Julia McCrossin, jmccross@gwmail.gwu.edu;
Lesleigh Owen, Ph.D., lesleigh.owen@gmail.com
This edited collection seeks to publish recent scholarship that pushes at the boundaries of the existent scholarship on embodiment, from a Fat Studies perspective.
As Fat Studies is an emerging field, there are copious amounts of terrain left to map out, and this collection will display the provocatively expansive ways that emergent Fat Studies scholars conceptualize the fat body and the cultural work the fat body does in various times, places, and societies. The purpose of this work includes pushing back at the “obesity epidemic” rhetorics in ways that are at once connected to affiliated work in fields like disability studies, queer studies, gender studies (to name a few), and yet uniquely their own.
In conclusion, this edited collection will offer crucial new pathways for the generative field of Fat Studies, as well as offer an exciting look at the developing scholars in this field. Perhaps one might say that Fat Studies seeks to integrate within cultural studies and the academy in general a critical body of work on fatness, layering our current understandings of the material body along with metaphoric and/or immaterial ways that fatness saturates our (post) modern world.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
· representations of fat people in literature, film, music, nonfiction, and the visual arts
· cross-cultural or global constructions of fat bodies
· cultural, historical, or philosophical meanings of fat and fat bodies
· portrayals of fat individuals and groups in news, media, magazines
· fatness as a social, political, personal, and/or performed identity
· phenomenology of fat movement and be-ing in a variety of physical (and physiological)
contexts
· fat as queering sex, beauty, gender, and other embodied performances
· negotiating fat within locations, space, and time
· representing weighted embodiments in such creative or abstract forms as, for example,
visual art, poetry, personal narratives, and literature
· fat acceptance, activism, and/or pride movements and tactics
· approaches to fat and body image in philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology
· fat children in literature, media, and/or pedagogy
· fat as it intersects with race, ethnicity, class, religion, ability, gender, nationality,
and/or sexuality
· functions of fatphobia or fat oppression in economic and political systems
Submissions are due Monday, November 1st, 2010. We welcome traditional and non-traditional
formats, including research articles, photographs, poetry, reports of performance art, and others. Articles and papers should range between 15 and 20 double-spaced pages. Please send submissions, along with a brief biographical sketch, directly to jmccross@gwmail.gwu.edu
and/or lesleigh.owen@gmail.com.
