Appel à contributions
The Miraculous (dis)appearing Act of Sexuality : Mapping the Study of Sexuality in Europe, 1960-2010
Avant le 30 janvier - The Graduate Journal of Social Sciences
GJSS Special Edition on Sexuality in Focus
The Graduate Journal of Social Sciences (GJSS) invites papers for its December 2012 special edition on Sexuality in Focus. This issue is inspired by the Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NOISE) 2011 Summer School, which was hosted by the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands). This year’s theme was ‘The Miraculous (dis)appearing Act of Sexuality : Mapping the Study of Sexuality in Europe, 1960-2010’. Central to this summer school was the exploration of what has appeared in discourses of sexualities and what has been missing. The special issue aims to further explore this complex and multifaceted subject.
We invite scholarly contributions from postgraduate students, early career academics and activists engaged in LGBT, sexuality, feminist, queer, women’s and gender studies or related areas, to submit their work for consideration. Although NOISE summer school participants are strongly encouraged to submit their papers, we also welcome contributions from people outside of the NOISE network. Thus, we welcome contributions that offer important insights into debates surrounding sexuality. These include, but are not limited to, the following themes :
· Sexualities in the making : discussions of the epistemological, methodological, and thematic issues central to the interdisciplinary and intersectional study of sexuality in Europe and beyond ; (historical) analyses of heterosexual, gay, lesbian, asexual, bisexual, queer and transsexual discourses or movements.
· Deconstructing sexualities : papers exploring the notion of (sexual) identity ; the engagement with biological essentialism / determinism, social constructivism and newer insights in this debate.
· Sexual politics : sexuality and (post)colonialism ; sexuality and the formation of the nation state ; multiculturalism and homonationalism ; sexuality and family politics ; state censorship. In this strand we also invite papers which seek to bridge the gap between academic feminisms and feminist activisms.
· Reflexivity and intersectionality : how can we adopt a more intersectional approach to our work on sexuality ? We invite papers exploring the ontological and epistemological relationship between the researcher and the subject of study in the field of sexuality. This strand also explicitly invites papers which explore the intersections of race, class, nationality, religion and other social categories, with gender and sexuality.
· Stigma and marginalization : we invite papers focusing on sexual practices or bodily aesthetics from an affirmative perspective. Papers might address BDSM ; pornography ; physical disabilities and sexuality ; fatness and sexuality ; or the sexual practices of other stigmatized groups.
A sixth strand is aimed at extending the debate on sexualities beyond the European / Western context. A selection of papers presented at the Arab Women, Media and Sexuality conference (University of York, May 2012) shall be included in a special section of this edition. Papers exploring the following themes are welcomed : representations of Arab women’s sexuality in Western and / or Arabic media ; approaches to sexuality in Arabic media ; Arab women’s perception of their sexuality vis-à-vis the media. The deadline for this section will be separate from the general deadline and will be announced. For more information, please contact Ebtihal Mahadeen : im544 [at] york.ac.uk.
Submissions :
Completed papers should be submitted by January 30th 2012. Papers should be 6000-8000 words. Please include an abstract (max 300 words), short author biography (max 150 words) along with three to five keywords.
Papers submitted to the GJSS undergo an initial selection by the guest editors and then go through a double-blind peer review process. The special issue will be published in December 2012.
Submissions must be accompanied by the GJSS article submission form. Detailed submission guidelines and formatting instructions can be found HERE http://www.gjss.org/index.php?/gjss.org-submission-of-articles.html.
Please submit your article to GJSSspecialed [at] gmail.com. Any enquiries regarding this special edition may also be directed to this email address.
Fichiers de syndication :
Syndication de l'actualité du genreStatistiques :
Le site contient 4383 articles