Dear All, Please see call for papers for Sociology Special Issue 'Sexualities' (attached and below). Best, Yvette Sociology Special Issue 2010 Call for Papers Sexualities Over the last 40 years there have been enormous transformations in the theorisation of sexuality, which have had significant implications not just for how we think about sexuality, but also for social and cultural theory more broadly. Sexuality is now central to much groundbreaking work by sociologists, and to contemporary public interest and policy making. This Special Issue considers the innovative contribution sociology has made to understandings of sexuality in the past, and to consider new directions for contemporary times. An important challenge for future work is to elaborate frameworks that allow more complex analyses of the relationship between sexuality and its intersections with other theoretical traditions, social theory, social structures and broader social inequalities. This is the focus of this Special Issue. Key questions to be explored include: How does sexuality intertwine with other social divisions? What do different methodological and theoretical uses of intersectionality contribute to our understandings of sexualities? In our attempt to offer critical insights to these and related questions, we are casting a wide conceptual net in the consideration of sexuality in its broadest sense. This Special Issue aims to theorise and develop new understandings of sexuality and intersectionality. In an attempt to critically examine the significance of theorising intersectionality in addressing contemporary sexualities, we aim to bring together a variety of contributions: from sociology and related disciplines, from different theoretical and methodological traditions (including quantitative and mixed methods, as well as qualitative), from contributors at different career stages, from those outside of the academy and from those based outside as well as in the UK. Potential Contributions might include: * Sexuality and intersectionality- key ideas and theoretical traditions * Sexuality, 'race', ethnicity, gender, class, disability and embodiment * Sexuality, place and space * Historical and contemporary innovations in methods and theory * Sexuality, age and generation * Comparative approaches to sexuality * Material realities of sexualities * Sexuality and social policy concerns, agendas and legislation * Sexuality and the media This special issue will be edited by Mark Casey, Diane Richardson, and Yvette Taylor (Newcastle University) and Sally Hines (University of Leeds). We welcome articles of up to 7,000 words (including references) and also shorter review articles, commentaries and book reviews. Submissions will be accepted via the journal's Manuscript Central site. Full submission instructions are available on the site on the 'Instructions and Forms page'. Please read these before submitting your manuscript. Deadline for final submissions: 31st July 2009. Queries to Mark Casey: [log in to unmask] Dr. Yvette Taylor School of Geography, Politics and Sociology 5th Floor Claremont Bridge Building University of Newcastle NE1 7RU 0191-2227870 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/yvette.taylor