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