CALL FOR CHAPTERS - Amazing Pride: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the UK. (Abstracts by 6th Sept 2024). (original) (raw)

This Call for Chapters invites scholars interested in writing on the UK Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from any related discipline to submit abstracts of 250-500 words for chapters of 7,000 words for an edited volume of essays to be published by Palgrave MacMillan. Deadline for Abstracts: 6th September 2024 Notification of Acceptance or Otherwise: 15th September 2024 First draft submission: 1st May 2025 Please include a full title and brief author biography with your abstract. Send to: ninakanephd@outlook.com by 1st August 2024 and contact editor by this email for any queries. Proposals must focus on the UK Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and might include (but are not limited to) any of the following connected areas: - The UK OPI /SPI – history, origins, practices, ‘Sistory’ - LGBTIQA, lesbian and gay, queer theories - British queer history – the Gay Liberation Front, the Molly House, C19th protestant cultures and Catholic iconography - Feminist and gender theories - Performance, street-theatre, drag, queer theatres, community theatres (UK/Europe) - Queer theology, sacred clowning - Radical religious drag - Sex positivity, fetish, activism, pleasure - British social politics, youth politics of the 1990s, LGBTIQA activism; Act-Up, OutRage!, Age of Consent, anti-war activism - HIV & AIDS activism, cultures, performances, chronopolitics, viral dramaturgies - Religious symbolism and vestiary politics - Relationship of the British OPI to the Australian OPI, to the Canadian OPI, the European SPI and American SPI - Language, ‘lavendar languages’, Polari - Catholicism in popular culture; cinematic nuns, nuns on TV, comedy nuns - Feminist and Queer Saintings – the canonisation activity of the Sisters - Derek Jarman and the Sisters - Pink Therapy, LGBTIQA counselling, welfare and support - Emerging ecologies, environmental activism and the Sisters - Music and song - Archiving, queer archiving projects, drag in museums, galleries and libraries - Education See attached doc for more