[Reader-list] InterCulture CFP: Evil Sisters

[Nicholas Ruiz]

InterCulture Call for Papers

Topic : "Evil Sisters":  Violence among women.
Submission Deadline : July 1st
Publication decisions will be made by September 1st

In many modern and contemporary narrative acts of 
psychological and physical violence among women, 
violence has been interpreted and presented in 
terms of Freudian envy, spaces for male pleasure, 
negotiating conflicts in a male world, biological 
determinism (the over protective mother), or as 
non-existent, i.e. created by males (women are 
peacemakers and nurturers, neither inherently violent nor evil) etc.

InterCulture would like to inspect this notion of 
female on female violence from an
interdisciplinary perspective.  An examination of 
texts like Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler, “ A Doll’s 
House”, Romulo Gallegos' Dona Barbara, Cinderella 
or films like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, 
Imitation of Life, and The Color Purple are just 
a few examples that depict violence among women. 
Beyond the literary, InterCulture would also like 
to explore historical feuds among queens or 
princesses, conflicts between classes of women, 
racial violence among women, and the balance of 
hierarchy among women within groups based on such 
things as social status or physical appearance. 
Female sports, women boxers, women wrestlers (in 
both legitimate and entertainment arenas), beauty 
pageant vengeance, prostitution and territorial 
violence, female prison violence, matricide, etc
 
are all welcome avenues of exploration.

InterCulture would like to receive submissions 
that attempt anthropological, religious, 
historical, biological, and mythological 
approaches to this theme.  For example, the 
mythical feud between Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera 
immediately comes to mind, as does the role of 
alpha females in ordering social animal groups 
like wolves, primates, and the like. Uses of 
text, film, art, scientific study, and music are 
all welcomed as we attempt to determine the 
reaches of female on female violence in world 
cultures and examine the diverse cultural 
experiences and perspectives concerning violence among women.

Articles should be submitted in MS Word format 
and be between 3-6K words in length; book, film, 
and music reviews should be between 750-1250 
words. Submissions are peer-reviewed.

InterCulture is an e-journal focused upon the 
interdisciplinary study of world cultures, the
celebration and contemplation of cultural 
diversity, and exploration of the commonalities of the
human condition. InterCulture exists to publish 
articles and media written from an 
interdisciplinary perspective, without any 
preference for a particular theoretical approach.

Creative work, book, film and music reviews are accepted as well.
For creative work, video and images should be 
submitted in commonly utilized formats.
(e.g., .SWF, MP3, AVI, Real Media, Windows Media, .JPG, .GIF, .WAV, etc.)

All submissions should include "InterCulture" in the subject heading.
Please send submissions via email to:

Thomas Philbeck
<mailto:tdp0761 at fsu.edu>tdp0761 at fsu.edu


Nicholas Ruiz III
GTA/Doctoral candidate
Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities
Florida State University
205P Dodd Hall, CPO (#1560), Tallahassee, FL 32306
Email: nr03 at fsu.edu
Editor, Kritikos
<http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03>http<http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03>://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03

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