Geo/politics of sex
Deadline: 01/07/2010
'Sex is political' claimed the MLF – Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (Movement for Women’s Liberation) – at the beginning of the 70s. With this slogan, the aim was to pull sexuality out of the private sphere in order to be able to think the body’s political implications and to denounce the naturalized reproduction of sexual and sexed roles. However, even though this critical point of view did generate feminist thinking, which is now always attentive to all dimensions of sexual social relations, analysis of sexuality and gender relations still have difficulties to be accepted as legitimate objects. Accused in turn – or even at the same time – of activism or post-modern ideology, reflections on the geographies of sexualities remain at the margins of research in France. All the same, the geographies of intimacy are geographies of power, and the aim of this issue of l’Espace Politique is to participate in a shift in vision, in order to think the contemporary transformations of the political based on geo/politics of sex.
