Feminisms, Sex and the Body

Deadline: 01/10/2010

Journal of Gender Studies
Call for Papers
Special Issue for 2011
Feminisms, Sex and the Body
Feminisms’ positions on issues related to sex and the body have undergone significant changes in recent decades. The embracing of female desire and bodily pleasures during the second wave has diverged into what may be considered an excessive divide between aggressive sexuality on the one hand and self-conscious attempts to deny the body on the other. In the age of fluid gender roles, ‘feminist’ pornography, designer bodies and post-human as well as neo-Darwinian approaches to procreation, this special issue seeks to address the new relationships between feminist thought (historical and contemporary), sexuality and the body. Through this, it also intends to explore and fill the gaps contemporary feminisms have left in the theorising of such relationships. The editors welcome contributions from a range of (inter-/cross-) disciplinary backgrounds, including literature, popular culture, media, the social sciences, medicine and law.