Editors' Note

Call for Papers

Guest editors Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine) and Julian Carter (Draper Program, New York University) invite proposals for a special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on "Studying the History of Sexuality: Theory, Methods, Praxis." The deadline for submitting proposals to the guest editors is 31 January 2003; the deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is 31 October 2003. The issue will be published in 2004. Proposals may be submitted electronically (by e-mail attachment) to Julian Carter at <juliancarter@mindspring.com> or to Lesley A. Hall at <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>.

In this issue JHS seeks to represent the best current thinking about major conceptual and practical issues at the heart of our professional practice. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

The relations of the history of sexuality to other elds within history:

• women's/gender history
• lesbian/gay/transgender history
• history of childhood/child rearing/education
• "age studies" and ideas of the life cycle more generally
• colonial and postcolonial studies
• political history, history of the state
• legal history
• history of medicine/science/technology
• demographic history

The relations of the history of sexuality to and the inuence upon it of:

• queer theory
• feminist theory
• literary criticism
• ethnology/anthropology
• geography and spatial relations
• developments in the social sciences
• developments in the life sciences
• activism

Methodological approaches and problems:

• theorizing premodern sexualities
• using participant observation and community membership as sources of data (e.g., the intersection of ethnographic methods and oral history)
• locating and interpreting medical sources
• locating and interpreting legal and/or governmental sources

The position of the scholar in the history of sexuality:

• past and current employment, research, and educational opportunities for sexuality scholarswho gets hired, where, with what job descriptions (i.e., are many historians of sexuality "passing" as something else? independent researchers? etc.)
• teaching and mentoring within secondary and postsecondary contexts
• the expansion of electronic media and its implications for sexuality scholarship

We would also be interested in analyses of the reasons that certain issues get constituted as central to inquiries about particular timeplace elds (e.g., homosexuality and sexology in late-nineteenth-century Europe; race and prostitution in early-twentieth-century North America; eugenics and reproduction in colonial India).

We welcome contributions from employed and independent scholars in all geographical and temporal subelds and of any disciplinary afliation.

Call for Reviewers

We invite you to help maintain the high standards of the Journal of the History of Sexuality by adding your name to our list of expert reviewers to referee manuscripts for potential publication and to review recently published books. To add your name to our list, please send your current academic afliation and/or contact information (including an e-mail address if possible) and the topic areas in which you feel qualied to review to Barbara Loomis, History Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, or by e-mail to <

jhs@sfsu.edu>.

Kudos

Martin Meeker's article "Behind the Mask of Respectability: Reconsidering the Mattachine Society and Male Homophile Practice, 1950s and 1960s," Journal of the History of Sexuality 10.1 (January 2001): 78-116, was awarded the Gregory Sprague Prize for outstanding published or unpublished paper, article, book chapter, or dissertation chapter on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, and/or queer history completed in English in 2000 or 2001 by a graduate student. The prize was awarded by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, an afliated society of the American Historical Association.

 

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