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Dr. Kath Browne,
Senior Lecturer,
School of the Environment,
Cockcroft Building,
Lewes Road,
Brighton,
BN2 4GJ,
England.
Tel: +44 1273 642377
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Geographies of Sexualities (Browne, K, Lim, J. and Brown G. eds)
To read more and get a paper copy go to:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Geographies-Sexualities-Theory-Practices-Politic
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Sexuality and Class Special Issue
This special issue seeks to provide a 'return to the material world'
(Jackson, 2008; Plummer, 2008), exploring the ways that class gives form
and shape to sexual norms, identities and communities, just as sexuality
is one lens through which we identify and understand class. The
privileging of contemporary queer transgressions often negates the
social positions enabling and constraining such practices - empirical
interrogation of this remains limited, with a gap between the 'material'
and the 'queer'. Such oversight is not simply a problem for those of us
who care about lesbian and gay life: it is also a missed opportunity to
better understand hetero/homo normativity, constructed through classed
and sexualised resources, signifiers and subjectivities. Notions of
intersectionality often centre upon identity, while a focus on
inequality, and specifically class and sexual inequality, remain
intersectional absences. Inequalities 'invade and structure personal
life across the world' restricting and compelling 'choices', set against
a limitless 'postmodernisation of intimacies' (Plummer, 2005). This
special issue seeks to explore intersections of class and sexuality,
from the material to the queer, from the 'ordinary everyday', to the
'extraordinary' global exclusions.
Papers could address the following (and related) themes:
* Classed inclusions and exclusions (eg: 'scene' spaces, sexual
citizenship)
* Classing queer, classing hetero/homo-normativity
* 'Compulsory heterosexuality': classed resistances, accommodations and
refusals
*Intimate mis/recognitions in establishing 'common' ground: attributions
of value, worth, excess
* The 'political economy of sex': the flows and divides between and
within low and high income societies
*Intersectionality, identity and inequality: class and sexuality as
'spokes' in the 'intersectional wheel'
Deadline: 2nd February 2009
Submissions to Yvette Taylor
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School of Geography, Politics and Sociology 5th Floor Claremont Bridge
Building, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU
See author guidelines at http://sexualities.sagepub.com
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