Editors' Note

Call for Papers

Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine) and Julian Carter (Draper Program, New York University) are the guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on "Studying the History of Sexuality: Theory, Methods, Praxis," to be published late in 2004. The deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is January 31, 2004, but those interested in making a submission should contact one of the guest editors as soon as possible about criteria. Julian Carter may be reached at juliancarter@mindspring.com and Lesley A. Hall at lesleyah@primex.co.uk. In this special 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 fields 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 influence 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, for example, the intersection of ethnographic methods and oral history locating and interpreting medical sources locating interpreting legal and/or governmental sources

The position of the scholar in history of sexuality:

past and current employment, research, and educational opportunities for sexuality scholars—who 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 time-place fields (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 subfields and of any disciplinary affiliation.

New Electronic Journal

American Sexuality magazine is seeking articles focused on sexuality health, education, and rights in the United States for immediate and future publication. American Sexuality is the on-line magazine published by San Francisco State University's National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), directed by anthropologist Dr. Gilbert Herdt, with major long-term funding from the Ford Foundation.

Newly established scholars and graduate students as well as senior faculty are encouraged to submit brief proposals (two hundred words) for articles dealing with sexual health, sexual education, sexual rights, and/or sexual communities and cultures in the United States. Publishing in American Sexuality is a unique opportunity to disseminate scholarly research in a widely read, internationally accessible medium aimed at informing academics, the general public, and community-based advocates on the critical gaps in sexuality research and policy. The published article should be one thousand to fifteen hundred words and written in a style that is accessible to nonacademic audiences. Find American Sexuality magazine and further instructions for authors on line at www.nsrc.sfsu.edu. Please contact anthropologist Cymene Howe, editor, at cymene@sfsu.edu or 415-437-1472 with questions and proposals.

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 affiliation and/or contact information (including an e-mail address if possible) and the topic areas...