[lit-ideas] Re: CFP: Special Issue of Hypatia: Against Heterosexualism
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- Date: 08 Apr 2004 16:24:50 PDT
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Please circulate
Call for Papers
For a Special Issue of
HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Against Heterosexualism:
Overcoming Heterosexual Normativity and Defeating Heterosexist Bigotry
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking papers for a special issue,
to be guest edited by Joan Callahan and Sara Ruddick, under the working title
"Against Heterosexualism: Overcoming Heterosexual Normativity and Defeating
Heterosexist Bigotry."
The working title of this issue is meant to indicate that papers should address
the normativity of heterosexuality and heterosexist bigotry as two prongs of
what we call heterosexualism: a cultural norm that needs to be well understood
and decisively rejected. Thus, we seek papers that not only illuminate these
concepts and their realities, but which in some way also address how these
realities can be changed.
Possible topics include, but are by no means restricted to:
. the moral, psychological and social harms of heterosexual normativity;
. heterosexist bigotry as atrocity;
. the pervasive presence of heterosexual normativity throughout culture(s);
. revelation and analysis of the kinds of bigotry, discrimination, and violence
perpetrated against sexual and gender minorities;
. heterosexualism and ignorance (e.g., why do so many good heterosexual people
seem not to comprehend the gravity of the social exclusion of sexual and
gender minorities?);
. motives, character, and social situations of the perpetrators of heterosexist
discrimination and violence (e.g., so-called homophobia, the assertion of
privilege and exercise of power, the will of [some] god);
. motives and reasons for the indifference of bystanders;
. critiques of legal, psychological, and other institutional defenses of
heterosexualism;
. heterosexualism and race / ethnicity;
. heterosexualism and class;
. heterosexualism and aging;
. heterosexualism and disability;
. heterosexualism and health care;
. relations between heterosexualism and communities of faith (including why so
many persons of faith who really do not support heterosexist discrimination
nonetheless continue to permit such discrimination in their communities of faith
and allow heterosexist bigotry to be enacted in the name of people of faith);
. relations between heterosexualism and religious fundamentalism locally and
globally;
. the special effects of heterosexual normativity on transpersons (who, for
example, are virtually invisible in the current debates around same-sex
marriage);
. same-sex marriage and its importance to overcoming heterosexualism.
. heterosexist hate speech, its contributions to bigotry, its harms;
. various resistances by those outside the heterosexual norm and their effects;
and VERY importantly,
. strategies for overcoming heterosexual normativity and for defeating
heterosexual bigotry.
Papers should be less than 10,000 words long, prepared for anonymous review, and
accompanied by an abstract of no more than 75 words. Please provide a cover
letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue "Against
Heterosexualism." The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2004. Papers
should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word or WordPerfect to Joan
Callahan at buddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Authors should follow the Hypatia style
guidelines, which can be found at http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/ . Please address
all correspondence, questions and suggestions to Joan Callahan at
buddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx We look forward to hearing from you.
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Forwarded by Robert Paul
Reed College
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