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Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies is concerned with the analysis and
critique of sexual systems, discourses and representations, particularly
those which animate, inform and impinge upon the lives of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender people. Such systems and discourses occur in
institutional, community, domestic and intimate contexts, are closely
connected to other social and cultural practices (such as nationalism,
education or popular entertainment), and play a critical role in the
formation and communication of individual and group identity. Members
also work with the ICA leadership to represent the concerns of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender scholars in the Association.
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http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/australian_journal_of_early_c
hildhood/ajec_index_abstracts/ajec_vol_35_no_1_march_2010.html
AJEC - Volume 35 No. 1 March 2010
In this issue:
* Embracing diversity: Challenging the norm
* Queer literature for inclusive practices
* Children's understanding of sexuality
* The media's sexualisation of children: A fresh look at the debate
* and more ...
You can purchase this issue of the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood now.
AJEC Volume 35 No. 01, March 2010
Please select one of the following:
Editorial - March 2010
Tomboys and sissy girls: Exploring girls' power, agency and female
relationships in childhood through the memories of women (free
full-text available)
Troubling childhood innocence: Reframing the debate over the media
sexualisation of children (free full-text available)
Kiss and tell: Gendered narratives and childhood sexuality
The tug of war: When queer and early childhood meet
Gay mothers and early childhood education: Standing tall
A review of gay and lesbian themed early childhood children's literature
(Re)marking heteronormativity: Resisting practices in early childhood education contexts
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ICA 2009
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Interest Group
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies is concerned with the analysis and critique of sexual systems, discourses, and representations, particularly those that animate, inform, and impinge upon the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Such systems and discourses occur in institutional, community, domestic, and intimate contexts; are closely connected to other social, cultural, and political practices (such as nationalism, education, or popular entertainment); and play a critical role in the formation and communication of individual and group identity.
The Interest Group welcomes quality research in these areas, using any methodological approach.
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2008 Queer Studies Graduate Symposium
17 May 2008
Davis, California, United States
Website:
Contact name: Cathy Hannabach, Toby Beauchamp, Liz Montegary
E-mail: queersymposium2008_AT_gmail.com (to e-mail the conference organizers, please replace _AT_ with @)
Interdisciplinary symposium about the politics of queer utopias and dystopias. For CFP, go to www.queersymposium.org.
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 14 March 2008
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SEXUALITY STUDIES
A book series by Temple University Press
The co-editors of Sexuality Studies—Janice Irvine and Regina Kunzel—are currently soliciting book manuscripts for a new series published by Temple University Press. The series features work in sexuality studies, in its social, cultural, and political dimensions, and in both historical and contemporary formations.
Sexuality Studies seeks titles that bridge theoretical and empirical methodologies, and that are located within both disciplinary and interdisciplinary frames. Sexuality Studies will showcase scholarship that is evidence-based and inflected by critical and cultural theories. The editors solicit projects that employ critical and cultural theories across diverse methodologies. These include archive-based historical work, as well as ethnographic and qualitative studies. Cultural and media studies projects are also appropriate, as are a range of projects on discourse and representation.
The series features research on sexuality as it intersects with gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and transnationalism. Sexuality Studies will publish work that examines (and disaggregates) sexual practices, expressions, identities, communities, and discourses, and that explores how sexual representations are shaped by social, cultural, historical, legal, and political contexts. Books in the list will be broadly focused and widely accessible. The editors seek books that will appeal to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of both academic and non-academic readers.
Submissions to Sexuality Studies are welcome through Janet Francendese, Editor in Chief, Temple University Press (janet.francendese@temple.edu). Information on how to submit manuscripts can be found at: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/submissions.html
Initial inquiries about proposals can also be sent to:
Janice Irvine, University of Massachusetts, Department of Sociology. irvine@soc.umass.edu
Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota, Departments of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and History rkunzel@williams.edu
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Surveillance and Society
Proposal and Call for Papers
Gender, Sexuality and Surveillance
Kirstie Ball, Nicola Green, Hille Koskela, David J. Phillips
Since its inception, surveillance studies has highlighted how monitoring practices divide, classify, order and sort target populations. It has been argued not only that populations assigned to different categories are subjected to different intensities and kinds of surveillance, but also that surveillance itself is integral to the production of those populations.
With a few exceptions, gender and sexuality – as ubiquitous structuring principles in society – have been neglected within surveillance studies. The body and its desires, as they are invoked in mainstream surveillance studies, tend to be assumed rather than specified. In this special issue of Surveillance and Society, we are therefore interested in explicitly examining the relations among gender, sexuality, and surveillance. Hence, this issue foregrounds and highlights how the gaze is gendered and sexualized, how surveillance is experienced across populations, and how the construction of subjectivities and bodies via surveillance practices invokes gender and sexuality. Moreover, we hope to consider how feminist and queer theories might be used to understand and explain surveillance practices, and to highlight debates about the technocentrism associated with surveillance studies. Surveillance studies is itself historically constructed by male theorists, and it is notable that
key feminist works that focus on discipline, subjectivity, power and the body [such as that of Bordo (1989, 1993), Butler (1990), McNay (1992), Ramazanoglu (ed, 1993) and Sawicki (1991)] remain marginal within the field. We therefore ask whether feminist or queer thought may also impact and reconstruct the concepts and theories of surveillance studies itself.
Contributions are welcome on any of the following themes, which might include, but are not limited to:
• the surveillance of women/men
• the construction of normative gender and sexual identities
• exhibitionism, voyeurism, desire and surveillance technologies
• vulnerability & exposure, border/ boundary movement and violation
• surveillance and the body
• gender & medical surveillance - biotechnologies, reproductive technologies, alcohol & addiction
• feminist theory, the panopticon and power
• queer theory, normativity and power
• gender-based identification, identity, subjectivity and discipline
• surveillance and sexual subcultures
• gendering the watchers & the watched
• discourses of masculinity, femininity, hetero-normativity and surveillance
Full papers, research notes, reviews, opinion pieces, art and poetry submissions should be sent electronically to Emily Smith (smithea@post.queensu.ca) by 31st March 2008.
Bibliography:
Bordo, S. (1989) “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist Appropriation of Foucault.” In Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo (eds). Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press: pp. 13-33.
Bordo, S. (1993) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body Berkley: University of California Press
Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.
McNay, L. (1992) Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the Self. Cambridge: Blackwell, Polity Press.
Ramazanoglu, C. (ed)(1993) Up Against Foucault: explorations of some tensions between Foucault and feminism London: Routledge.
Sawicki, J. (1991) Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body New York: Routledge.
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