[csaa-forum] Special issue of SEXUALITIES - Call for papers

[Barbara Baird]

Please accept my apologies for re-sending this message - the first version failed to include the name of the journal for which proposals are sought!
Barbara Baird


We would like to draw your attention to a forthcoming special issue of Sexualities: A summary is below

Special Issue Overview:
Challenging Hetero-doxies

Heterosexuality has been addressed in scholarly literature largely as something that is nasty, boring and normative, and on the whole tends to deal with the important matters of oppression, sexual violence, pornography and sex-trafficking. The intention of this issue is to challenge orthodox approaches to heterosexuality, without denying the weight of feminist and related criticisms of the dominance of heterosexuality and the problems and violence often associated with heterosexual practices. However, sex as boringly normative or dangerous is not all there is to heterosexuality. Heterosexual intimacies, sexualities, and identities can and do have subversive potential as playful, pleasurable and even peculiar.

This issue seeks to develop research into subversive heterosexualities by opening up the debate to a social science audience, adding weight to an emerging body of work aimed at reconsidering conventional heterodoxies in relation to structures of domination. In addition to heterosexuality as play and pleasure, papers will explore cases and accounts from everyday life that unsettle the well-trodden connection between heterosexuality and dominance. Such revisions will take account of how of sexuality intersects with other markers of difference such as gender, class, age and ethnicity to produce multiple configurations of the heteronorm.

We are interested in papers that specifically focus on play and pleasure, transgression, subversion and dissidence. Topics could include unconventional relationships, unorthodox heterosexual practices/acts, legal and historical changes to heterosexuality, sex education, critical theories of heterosexuality, histories of non-conformity - eg utopian communities, heterosexual desire/fun/pleasure, political versions of resistance to heterosexuality, cyber-cultures, youth cultures, cross-sex friendships, and class, gender, race, age and ability differences in non-conformity and heterosexuality.


- A 300 word abstract is to be sent by 15 March 2013
- Decisions about accepted abstracts will be sent on the 2nd April 2013
- Full articles to be sent by 31 May 2013

Please attach a 200 word biography to your proposal. All papers will be submitted to blind peer-review.

Editors: Christine Beasley, Heather Brook, Mary Holmes and Monique Mulholland

Contact Details:
monique.mulholland at flinders.edu.au<mailto:monique.mulholland at flinders.edu.au>

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