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Call For Papers

The Sexuality Network of the European Social Science History Conference
invites papers on the history of sexuality for inclusion in its programme of
panels at this bi-annual conference. The Sixth ESSHC will take place from
22 - 25 March 2006 at the RAI conference center in Amsterdam.

The Sexuality Network encourages proposals for full panels (3 papers,  1
discussant, 1 chair) as well as offers of individual papers. Papers and
panels on all historical periods are welcome.

The Network's interests include but are not limited to: Sexual activity in
historical context; the formation of sexual identities (e.g., different-sex,
same-sex, bisexual and queer identities); sexuality and marriage
(premarital, courtship, adultery, divorce- related themes); individual
sexuality (celibacy and masturbation);
fertility and sexuality (menstruation; birth control, abortion,  vasectomy
and other technologies); sexual subcultures; geographies of sexuality;
prostitution; sexually transmitted disease; HIV/AIDS and
sexuality; representations of sexuality (e.g., pornography, erotica, safer
sex campaigns); the medicalization of sexualities (e.g., sexology,
psychiatry; perversions and paraphilias); sex education; moral reform
movements; legal regulation of sexuality; sexual violence; globalization and
sexuality; historiographical and theoretical approaches to sexuality (e.g.,
marxism, feminism, queer theory).

We are particularly interested in encouraging proposals on histories of
sexualities and their intersection with themes such as ethics, the body,
gender, medicine, space and geographies, nationality, ethnicity,
post-colonialism, or globalisation. Papers on methodological questions in
the history of sexualities, and papers on
problems of historiography in the history of sexualities are also strongly
encouraged.

Panel and paper proposers must pre-register at the conference website in
order for their offers to be considered:
http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.html
Information about the conference fees and conditions are also available at
this site.
The deadline for pre-registration is May 1, 2005.

Contacts for further information about the Sexuality Network:
Geertje Mak
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Dan Healey
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