Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Please circulate widely.....
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> Call for papers: 'PERVERT STUDIES': CONSIDERATIONS OF THE SOCIAL LIFE OF
> SEX,
> PLEASURE & THE EROTIC
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> Session Organizers: Jamie Paquin & Katherine Osterlund (York
> University) A session of the 2005 Canadian Anthropology and Sociology
> Association (CSAA) Annual Meetings, London, Ontario, Canada; May 31st
> - June 3rd 2005 You are invited to submit an abstract of a paper for
> oral presentation of approximately 20 minutes in length.
>
> Initial abstract and letter of intent due Dec 31st, but NO LATER THAN
> JANUARY 10TH, 2005.
>
> Note: If you require presentation software (e.g. powerpoint) you must
> indicate this with your Abstract/LOI
>
> Complete paper due APRIL 29TH, 2005.
>
> For inquiries and/or to submit abstracts please email: kathyo at yorku.ca
> Conference information and list of sessions:
> http://www.csaa.ca/AnnualMeeting/2005CallEnglish.htm
>
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> 'Pervert Studies': Considerations of the social life of sex, pleasure
> and the erotic
>
> Feminist, gay and lesbian, transgender and queer studies have done
> much to contest and reveal many forms of sexual persecution,
> subjectification, discrimination and misconception. The task today
> includes extending this critical engagement with sexual
> epistemologies, discourses and norms which preclude or degrade the
> otherwise meaningful and pleasurable practices of what Rubin calls
> 'erotic deviants' (1986). Highly refined, even reified systems of
> categories may now obscure the range of practices, processes, and
> realities that are the object of an expanded sociology of the erotic.
> The time has come to speak of the erotic in all its dispositional
> variations and forms, to bring thought and creative analysis to bear
> upon those domains of erotic desire and/or conduct still in the
> shadows. To consider the seen and unseen of current sexual
> epistemologies and assess their effects.
>
> The pervert may be defined as 'one who has forsaken a doctrine or
> system regarded as true for one esteemed false' (Oxford English
> Dictionary). We propose the field of 'pervert studies' as an impetus
> to be fully engaged in questioning this logic of truth and falsehood
> regarding erotic practice, fantasy and desire, in order to create a
> space for ideas and open discussion of erotic conduct, commitments and
> personas that are held meaningful by participants and practitioners.
>
> Pervert Studies invites theoretical or empirically-based reflection on
> issues including, but not limited to:
>
> · The constitution of erotic subjectivity: practices, processes,
> 'structure'
> and 'agency'
> · Who are some still stigmatized erotic populations? How are these
> stigmas
> framed and contested?
> · What is the practice? The pleasure? The context in which it is
> cultivated
> and experienced?
> · Has critical sexuality studies gone far enough its investigation of
> eroticism? Has it created new sexual villains even as it redeemed others?
> · Perversions on the books: Sexual law/social 'laws'; Minors; Money
> · Space and place, pleasure and practice
> · Methodological issues in the study of the erotic
>
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