Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, invites submissions for a special issue titled “Pleasure and Danger: Sexual Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century,” slated for publication in the Autumn 2016 issue.
For this special issue, Signs invites transdisciplinary and transnational submissions that address questions and debates provoked by the “pleasure and danger” couplet.
Submissions may engage with the historical (how different is our moment from that formative “sex wars” era? have the sex wars moved to new terrain such as trafficking and slut-shaming?); the representational (how does the digital era transform our sexual lives? what does “livestreaming” sexual assault do to/for feminist organizing? what possibilities are there for feminist and queer imagery in an era of prolific porn, commodified otherness, and everyday inclusion?); the structural (how do race, ethnicity, religion, and national cultures enable and constrain sexual freedoms? how do carceral and governance feminisms frame and perhaps contain earlier liberatory impulses?); and/or the intersectional (how do we analyze the mutually constituting relations of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, ability, age, and so on?). There are local and global questions to be asked and strategic arguments to be resolved. And the very terms are themselves constantly debated (whose pleasure are we speaking of and for? who is the “we” doing that speaking? who is imagined to be “in danger?” how does “gender” signify differently in that couplet from “sexuality?”)
The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2015.
Manuscripts may be submitted electronically through Signs Editorial Manager system at http://signs.edmgr.com.
Please choose the article type “Pleasure and Danger – Special Issue Article.”
Guidelines for submission are available at http://www.journals.uchicago.
This call is available online at http://signsjournal.org/for-
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