Co-editors: Hannah Charnock, Sarah L. Jones, and Ben Mechen

Proposals by: 04.01.2019

The editors seek proposals for contributions to a special issue of a leading history of medicine journal on the modern history of „sexperts“ and „sexpertise“. The journal in which the texts are to be published will be confirmed upon receipt of the abstracts. (Information of the editors on request of Salon 21.)

With these guiding categories in mind, contributions will seek to explore the circulation and transmission of sexual knowledge and ideas between experts and publics in the 19th and 20th centuries, or else to question this distinction altogether.

Possible themes for consideration therefore include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

• Forms of „popular“ sexual expertise and knowledge, such as sex manuals, marriage guides, family planning and sexual health instruction, and advice columns in newspapers and magazines
• „Alternative“ forms of sexual expertise/knowledge and the creation of sexual counterpublics, as well as the partial admission of alternative forms of sexual knowledge into the cultural „mainstream“ (e.g. those developed by the feminist and women’s health movements, new religious movements, countercultures, identity- and community-based movements, etc) or, conversely, the cultural marginalisation of the previously „mainstream“.
• Professional or medical expertise/knowledge and its relationship with the broader public

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TG Gender & Affect, SFB 1171 „Affective Societies

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Zeit: 09.-10.05.2019
Einreichfrist: 31.12.2018

The establishment of gender as a major analytical category in the humanities and social sciences has enabled scholars to explore the construction of social norms and the sexual organisation of society in new and fruitful ways. In parallel, emotions, and more lately affect have emerged as categories to re-think social theory. Engaged in promoting an interdisciplinary dialogue, this symposium intends to connect research on gender and on affect so as to contribute to the on-going discussion on the following questions: What do studies of affect and emotion gain from a better understanding of gender dynamics? Conversely, what role do affective dynamics play in power constellations and gendered normative orders? How do histories of social movements and counter cultures inform contemporary ways of thinking and doing affect? What are the various methodological challenges at the intersection of gender and affect research? These ideas will be at the heart of three thematic panels, which aim to foster intensive discussions and collaborative thinking.

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