{"id":7903,"date":"2015-02-12T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:23:48","slug":"call-for-papers-pleasure-and-danger-sexual-freedom-and-feminism-in-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2015\/02\/12\/call-for-papers-pleasure-and-danger-sexual-freedom-and-feminism-in-the-twenty-first-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Pleasure and Danger: Sexual Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society<\/em> invites submissions for a special issue titled \u0093Pleasure and Danger: \u00a0Sexual Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century<\/a>,\u0094 slated for publication in the Autumn 2016 issue. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the feminist project is a persistent concern with thinking through the \u0093powers of desire\u0094 (Snitow, Stansell, and Thompson 1983) and expanding the potential for sexual and gender freedom and self-determination at the same time that we combat sadly persistent forms of sexual danger and violence.\u00a0 Exemplified in the US context by Carole Vance\u0092’s landmark collection, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality<\/em>, feminist debates over sex, gender, and society have been incendiary.\u00a0 First published in 1984, as proceedings of the infamous \u0093Scholar and the Feminist\u0094 conference at Barnard, which initiated the equally infamous \u0093sex wars,\u0094 this volume reproduced intense dialogue while also contributing to a much broader investigation of the politics (and pleasures, and dangers) of sexuality within feminist theory and culture. Articles that threw down gauntlets were subsequently canonized and celebrated. \u00a0Much has changed since that explosive conference and book. Even the subtitle, \u0096 \u0093exploring female sexuality,\u0094 \u0096 would now be more deeply interrogated (biologically female? presumptively heterosexual?) and certainly pluralized.\u00a0 But however reframed, the paradoxical joining that is \u0093pleasure and danger\u0094 remains poignantly relevant.<\/p>\n

For this special issue, we invite transdisciplinary and transnational submissions that address questions and debates provoked by the \u0093pleasure and danger\u0094 couplet.\u00a0 Submissions may engage with the historical (how different is our moment from that formative \u0093sex wars\u0094 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 \u0093livestreaming\u0094 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. \u00a0And the very terms are themselves constantly debated (whose pleasure are we speaking of and for?\u00a0 who is the \u0093we\u0094 doing that speaking? who is imagined to be \u0093in danger?\u0094 how does \u0093gender\u0094 signify differently in that couplet from \u0093sexuality?\u0094).<\/p>\n

We particularly encourage analyses from all regions of the globe that address pressing concerns and that do so in a way that is accessible and, well, passionate!\u00a0 We encourage bold and big thinking that seeks to reckon with the conundrum still signaled by the pleasure\/danger frame. \u00a0We especially seek submissions that attend to the couplet itself, to the centrality of pleasure\/danger within the project of making feminism matter and resonate in ways both intimate and structural, deeply sensual and liberatory, simultaneously championing multiplicities of pleasures and a lasting freedom from violence and abuse.<\/p>\n

Manuscripts may be submitted electronically through Signs<\/em> Editorial Manager system at\u00a0http:\/\/signs.edmgr.com<\/a>. \u00a0Please choose the article type \u0093Pleasure and Danger – Special Issue Article.\u0094 Guidelines for submission are available here<\/a>. This Call for Papers is also available as a PDF<\/a>. Please\u00a0email the journal office<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snitow, Ann Barr, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson. 1983. Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality<\/em>. New York: Monthly Review.<\/p>\n

Vance, Carole. S, ed. 1984. \u00a0Pleasure<\/em> and<\/em> Danger<\/em>: Exploring Female Sexuality<\/em>. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for a special issue titled \u0093Pleasure and Danger: \u00a0Sexual Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century,\u0094 slated for publication in the Autumn 2016 issue. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2015. At the heart of the feminist project is a persistent concern with thinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21121],"tags":[12232,2559,245,14099,85,21789,176,13983],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-ink","tag-cfp","tag-danger","tag-feminism","tag-pleasure","tag-politics","tag-sexual-freedom","tag-sexuality","tag-signs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}