CFP: Chapters for an Edited Collection, Shakespeare and Misogyny

Building from our sponsorship of an SAA Seminar on Shakespeare and Misogyny, we seek additional chapters for a proposed edited collection on how Shakespeare’s works engage with Kate Manne’s new definition of misogyny, developed in Down Girl. This book explores how misogyny operates in early modern literature in general and Shakespeare in particular, both as a feature that motivates action and as a structuring principle. Do Shakespeare’s works reinforce or undermine the patriarchal worlds that the plays and poems create? How is early modern patriarchy’s goal of maintaining or restoring order by devaluing women drawn from or connected to its implicit belief that whiteness is superior? How does early modern patriarchy use the vocabularies of race to devalue unruly women? Does Shakespeare represent misogyny in a manner distinct from his contemporaries? We welcome work that investigates overlaps between misogyny and race, queer theory, de/post/colonial studies, trans studies, ecocriticism, disability studies, and other intersectional possibilities.

Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Brian Chalk (brian.chalk@manhattan.edu), Shannon Kelley (skelley@fairfield.edu), and/or Pattie Wareh (warehp@union.edu) by April 1, 2024. We will request completed chapters (6000-7500 words) by October 15, 2024.