JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
Special Issue:
“STUDYING THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: THEORY, METHODS, PRAXIS”
Guest editors Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine) and Julian Carter (Draper Program, New York University) invite proposals for a special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on “Studying the History of Sexuality: Theory, Methods, Praxis.” The deadline for submitting proposals to the guest editors is January 31, 2004; the deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is October 31, 2004. The issue will be published in 2005. Proposals may be submitted electronically (by e-mail attachment) to Julian Carter at juliancarter@mindspring.com or to Lesley A. Hall at lesleyah@primex.co.uk.
In this issue JHS seeks to represent the best current thinking about major conceptual and practical issues at the heart of our professional practice. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
The relations of the history of sexuality to other fields within history:
- women’s/gender history
- lesbian/gay/transgender history
- history of childhood/child-rearing/education
- “age studies” and ideas of the life-cycle more generally
- colonial and postcolonial studies
- political history, history of the state
- legal history
- history of medicine/science/technology
- demographic history
The relations of the history of sexuality to, and the influence upon it of:
- queer theory
- feminist theory
- literary criticism
- ethnology/anthropology
- geography and spatial relations
- developments in the social sciences
- developments in the life sciences
- activism
Methodological approaches and problems:
- theorizing premodern sexualities
- using participant observation & community membership as sources of data; e.g., the intersection of ethnographic methods and oral history
- locating and interpreting medical sources
- locating and interpreting legal and/or governmental sources
The position of the scholar in history of sexuality:
- past and current employment, research, and educational opportunities for sexuality scholars--who gets hired, where, with what job descriptions (i.e. are many historians of sexuality “passing” as something else? Independent researchers? etc.)
- teaching and mentoring within secondary and post-secondary contexts
- the expansion of electronic media & its implications for sexuality scholarship.
We would also be interested in analyses of the reasons that certain issues get constituted as central to inquiries about particular time-place fields (e.g., homosexuality and sexology in late nineteenth-century Europe; race and prostitution in early twentieth-century North America; eugenics and reproduction in colonial India).
We welcome contributions from employed and independent scholars in all geographical and temporal subfields and of any disciplinary affiliation.
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