[Discussion] "SEXY FEMINISMS? TRANS-FORMATIONS IN FEMINIST SEXUALITY STUDIES"

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

"SEXY FEMINISMS? TRANS-FORMATIONS IN FEMINIST SEXUALITY STUDIES"
Location:	Canada

CFP: Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal / Revue d'Etudes sur les femmes,

"SEXY FEMINISMS? TRANS-FORMATIONS IN FEMINIST SEXUALITY STUDIES"

In 1984, Signs held a forum on "female sexualities" that described two
presumably opposing camps of feminist responses to sexuality debates: 
radical
and libertarian. Contributors to this 1984 forum pointed out that both sides
claim the other overlooks important aspects of female sexuality and 
pleasure.
They concluded that these "opposing positions do not exhaust the possible
feminist perspectives on sexual pleasure, sexual freedom, and danger" 
(107). In
the two decades since that important critical moment, feminist sexuality 
studies
has moved well beyond the limiting poles of danger versus pleasure or prudes
versus progressives. Indeed, feminist sexuality studies since has faced new
challenges in form of queer theory, transgender, and transnational 
scholarship,
as well as critical race, whiteness and disability studies.

Given these transformations, this special issue of Atlantis seeks to 
survey the
current states of feminist sexuality studies in the wake of the above
theoretical and political influences. We invite submissions that 
contribute to
an inquiry into the current relationship between "feminist" and 
"sexuality." We
suggest that such inquiry circulates around two central questions: How 
have the
above mentioned theoretical and political movements transformed how we 
do and
understand feminist sexuality studies today? What kinds of changes can we
observe in the longstanding conversation that feminist theory has about the
status of sexuality?

For more info re topics, requirements, etc see the web address provided 
below.

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2006

Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal / Revue d'Etudes sur les femmes, 
Institute
for the Study of Women, Mount Saint Vincent University

Halifax NS B3M 2J6, Canada, tel: 902-457-6319, fax: 902-443-1352
email: atlantis at msvu.ca

	Guest Editors: Susanne Luhmann
Department of Women's Studies, Thorneloe College at Laurentian University
sluhmann@laurentian.ca
Rachel Warburton
Department of English, Lakehead University,
rachel.warburton_at_lakeheadu.ca

Visit the website at
http://www.msvu.ca/atlantis/Framed%20pages/cContributors%20Info.htm