[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Sexy Feminisms? Trans-Formations in Feminist Sexuality Studies (2/1/06; journal issue)

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From: Rachel Warburton <rachel.warburton@utoronto.ca>


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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