Call For Papers: The Non-Exotic Erotic: Questions of Desire and Representation

Call For Papers:
The Non-Exotic Erotic: Questions of Desire and Representation

We are pleased to invite submissions for the second issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, slated for publication in December 2015. Young activists, independent researchers, graduate students and fresh graduates are particularly encouraged to apply. We also welcome submissions from seminal contributors in the field.

This issue of Kohl wishes to explore the ways in which the erotic has been used as a means of economic and political exploitation in the MENA, within the region and outside it. The exotic could constitute one particular way of perceiving that exploitation, especially when it reduces the erotic to a space of misrepresentation and discrimination. In other words, we are interested in papers that break away from the West vs. East dichotomy, and that engage with the erotic/exotic in relation to the MENA’s “others.” We are also interested in highlighting the spaces of the erotic that have been reclaimed by women, feminists and queer people as a means of survival, pleasure, and change.

The deadline for submission is July 19, 2015.

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The full call is attached as a PDF version.