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The Feminist Review Collective seeks submissions for
a special issue on
Sexual Moralities.
A conservative sexual morality appears to be on the
increase globally,
operating in both new and familiar ways. The Feminist
Review Collective
is interested in exploring current or historical
manifestations of
anxieties about sexual morality for the following
reasons:
Ø Declarations of sexual morality are consistently
targeted at
women
and minorities, often as a way of policing national
boundaries and
preserving the 'integrity' of the heterosexual family
Ø Discourses of sexual morality operate in
contradictory ways,
frequently serving as a dense site where hierarchies
of race, gender,
class and religious are affirmed or challenged. As a
result new
oppositions emerge - we speak of high and low risk
groups for sexually
transmitted diseases, and sexually-liberated versus
sexually-oppressive
nation-states.
Ø While assertions of sexual morality are
increasing, new forms of
sexual exploitation and expression reveal themselves -
in the global
sex
trade, in contests between women's rights and foetal
rights, in
domestic
partnership legislation for same-sex couples, and in
new relationship
made possible by new forms of communication and
technology (phone sex,
mail order brides).
How are we to make sense of the possibilities,
contradictions and
exploitations that make up the contemporary realm of
sexual moralities?
How does power work through questions of sexual
morality to position
bodies unequally, and to produce subjects answerable
to its
contradictory logics?
The Feminist Review Collective seeks submissions
addressing some of the
questions raised by sexual moralities in any area, but
we are
particularly interested in work that examines
* Intersections of race, ethnicity, class,
gender and sexual
morality
* The use of sexual morality to police or
problematise boundaries
of nation, religion and family
* Local and global manifestations of sexual
morality, for example
in relation to health and reproductive rights, the
HIV/AIDS pandemic,
sex work, education, fundamentalism, the new celibacy
movement, or gay
marriage
* The role of feminist and women's movements in
challenging the
pernicious effects of sexual morality
Work should be submitted for the Dialogues section or
in article form
according to the submission guidelines by the end of
July 2005.
Submit to: feminist-review@???
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