[Discussion] CFP: Sexy Feminisms? Trans-Formations in Feminist Sexuality Studies (2/1/6; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Please circulate widely!

Call for Submissions for Special Issue of 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? Accordingly, some of the questions that this issue seeks to
address (but is not limited to) include:

how do contemporary sexuality studies (the scholarship produced under
this rubric and programs of study created or planned as critical
sexuality, queer, and lesbian/gay studies) engage and draw upon feminist
theories and knowledges?

which feminist paradigms continue to inform contemporary approaches to
sexuality studies; which ones have been rejected?

what role do sexuality studies play within contemporary feminist
research and theories, in women's studies programs and courses?

how has queer theory transformed feminist sexuality studies?

how do transgender, transnational, and transdisciplinary scholarship,
and/or work in areas such as critical race, whiteness and disability
studies transform what we imagine when we imagine "feminist sexuality
studies"?

All contributions should be accessible to an audience from many
different backgrounds interested in participating in the creation and
sharing of feminist knowledge. Atlantis articles are peer reviewed. They
contribute to a publication that strives to meet the most significant
academic and feminist expectations of our colleagues.

Please send submissions addressed to the Atlantis address below.
Information regarding the contributors' guidelines may be found in a
recent copy of the journal, at the web site
(<http://www.msvu.ca/atlantis>www.msvu.ca/atlantis), or by contacting
the Atlantis office.

Please note:
When an article is accepted for publication in Atlantis, we ask that the
contributor subscribe to the journal for one year. Like many other
journals, our fiscal base is vulnerable. Subscribers to Atlantis create
the possibility for the dissemination of feminist knowledge in the form
of peer-reviewed articles, community voices, curriculum reflections and
book reviews. As contributors of peer-reviewed articles, their
subscriptions will assist in keeping the journal in print and available
to the larger community of feminist thinkers and doers. In exchange,
they will receive both the spring and fall editions plus an extra copy
of the edition carrying their article.

Guest Editors:
Susanne Luhmann
Department of Women's Studies, Thorneloe College at Laurentian
University <mailto:sluhmann@laurentian.ca> sluhmann@laurentian.ca

Rachel Warburton
Department of English, Lakehead University,
<mailto:rachel.warburton@lakeheadu.ca> rachel.warburton@lakeheadu.ca


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 <
<http://www.msvu.ca%3E> http://www.msvu.ca>;
Halifax NS B3M 2J6, Canada, tel: 902-457-6319, fax: 902-443-1352
email:  <mailto:atlantis@msvu.ca> atlantis@msvu.ca
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