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From: Colin Clark [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 6:40 PM
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Subject: Radical Statistics: special issue on sexuality (2003)
*RADICAL STATISTICS* SPECIAL EDITION: Sexuality and Statistics (Summer 2003
publication)
Statistical research has been a key feature of the emergence of modern
sexology and contemporary studies of heterosexual, lesbian, gay and bisexual
life. From the calculus of Kinsey and Masters and Johnson to the mass
surveys of Welling et al, statistical data has come to represent a rich
diversity of sexual values and experiences. Statistical research has been
significant in understanding issues of sexual health, changing attitudes to
sex and sexuality and sexual diversity. They have been both controversial -
the mass survey techniques of Shere Hite - and all pervasive - the plethora
of sex surveys in contemporary mens and womens magazines. They have also
been criticised for failing to reflect the sophistication of sexual
experience, reflecting dominant social categories and ideas above reflective
inquiry into sexual experience and values, and being inappropriately
constructed from surveys that cannot reflect except in parody people's
explanations of their sexual identity, orientation, relations, behaviour and
acts.
Radical Statistics (ISSN: 0268 6376) is planning to publish a special
edition on sexuality and statistics. It invites expressions of interest and
submissions from authors on a wide range of issues that connect sexuality
and statistics.
The issue will be published in the Summer of 2003 and articles should be
between 3,000 and 5,000 words.
The editors for this special edition are Dr Colin Clark (University of
Newcastle upon Tyne) and Dr Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill College).
Offers of papers / brief abstracts should be sent, in the first instance, to
Dr Reynolds at [log in to unmask] by the 1st May 2002.
Colin Clark, Newcastle University and Paul Reynolds, Edge Hill College.
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