Feminisms’ positions on issues related to sex and the body have undergone signiicant 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 luid 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 ill 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. Potential topics include, but are by no means limited to:
• Sex and text; body and/as text
• Feminisms and visual art/media (i.e. ilm, photography, painting, etc.)
• Feminisms and fashion
• Homosexuality and same-sex desire
• Celibacy, abstinence and virginity as feminist statements
• Sculpted bodies (i.e. women athletes, plastic surgery, etc.)
Submit Your Research
Please send submissions to jgs@lincoln.ac.uk by
1st October 2010 marked clearly as ‘FSB Special Issue’.
Submission instructions are available on the journal’s site:
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cjgs
Details here.
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