Tag: professional wrestling

We invite chapter proposals for a new edited collection examining the global history of women's professional wrestling. This volume aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of women's wrestling from its ancient origins to the contemporary era, exploring its impact on sport, gender, sociology, and popular culture. While recent media productions lhave brought renewed attention to women's wrestling, scholarly examination of this field remains limited, particularly regarding its early history.

This anthology aims to examine pro wrestling in the pandemic to bring into relief issues and questions about art and entertainment, industry, communication, sociality, labor, precarity, bodies and physicality, and care under the uncertain conditions of late capitalism and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.We invite submissions from across disciplines.

This book project began as a cross-disciplinary conversation – theatre, performance studies, anthropology – presented first in a panel at a 2017 conference. The editors wish now to expand the field to allow a wider range of perspectives and voices to weigh in on the question of how professional wrestling might be implicated in the current resurgence of populist politics.

We are seeking contributors to our project, an edited volume of essays examining various aspects of professional wrestling and its relationship to other themes (nationalism, gender, race, etc.). The scope is broad and open, and authors are welcome to write about any individual, period, or location.