SEXTURES - VIRTUAL FORUM AND E-JOURNAL

SEXTURES - VIRTUAL FORUM AND E-JOURNAL

A NEW CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN SPACE FOR SEXUALITIES IN THE HUMANITIES,
ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

http://www.sextures.net/home

SEXTURES provides a forum for open intellectual debate across the arts,
humanities and social sciences about all aspects affecting the intricate
connections between politics, culture and sexuality primarily, but not
exclusively, in the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe. It aims to offer
new and challenging debates on sexualities to academic and non-academic
audiences in these regions and globally.

All articles submitted to the e-journal will be refereed by members of the
editorial board and external referees when required. All contributions
submitted for publication in a thematic strand will be reviewed by the
editor of that thematic strand and/or a member of the editorial board when
required. Sextures plans to become a fully (double-blind) refereed
international e-journal of the arts, humanities and social sciences in the
near future. Articles in thematic strands can be published at any time of
the year, while the e-journal will initially publish bi-annually, with the
intention to publishing 3 issues a year in the near future.

We are seeking articles, essays, reviews, visual and audio material, or
artwork in a wide range of disciplines across the arts, humanities and
social sciences. Reading our concept will help you get a sense of the
kinds of work and approaches we intend to publish. If in doubt read other
articles already published on the website or email us.

We are particularly interested in the following topics:

* Sexual citizenship
* Human rights and sexual identities
* Reproductive rights of women
* Geographies of sexualities
* The interface between ethnicity, class, religion, age, gender and
sexuality
* Sexual identities/sexual communities
* Sex tourism
* Representations of sexualities in the Balkans, Eastern and Central
Europe, including pornography and mass media communications of sexualities
* All aspects of sex work (health, criminal, social, etc.)
* Globalization of sexualities
* Postsocialist transition and the diversification of sexualities
* Social aspects of health and sexuality (including the links between
drug/alcohol use and sex work, drugs and sex, HIV, HEP C)
* Cultural representations of HIV/AIDS in the Balkans, Eastern and
Central Europe
* Commercialization of sex and sexualities
* Internet and sex/sexualities
* Methodologies for sex research
* Sexual politics
* Nationalism and sex/sexuality
* Love and intimacy
* Key thinkers and theories of sexuality
* Queer ethics
* Queer theory
* Gendering of sexualities
* Transgressive sexualities
* Sex at work
* Sexual harassment and sexual violence
* Feminism and sexualities
* Traditional/unconventional masculinities and sexualities
* Narrative of sexualities
* Youth pregnancy and adolescent sexualities
* Gender blending/transitioning
* Constructions of deviant sexualities as national threats in discourses
of national security
* Sex in schools and sex education
* Bodies and sexualities
* Moral panics and the regulations of sex and sexual identities
* Politicization of sex and sexualization of politics
* Stigma, shame, sex and love

SEXTURES also welcomes book reviews; interviews; reviews of films and film
festivals; reviews of video clips; panel discussions and debates;
photographs and accompanying material; audio and video clips; information
about undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sexualities in the
Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe; relevant calls for grant or research
proposals, information about donors supporting research in the area of
sexualities in the above mentioned regions; information about activist
projects in the area of lesbian, gay, transgender and women's rights;
anti-gay violence projects, anti-trafficking projects; HIV/HEP C
prevention projects; bibliographies of sex research in the Balkans,
Central and Eastern Europe; conference announcements and reports; etc.