Sexualities Journal

A Journal Edited in the Sociology Department at The University Of Essex By Ken Plummer.

The international journal Sexualities is based in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. It was established in 1998 under the editorship of Ken Plummer.

In 2005, Roisin Ryan- Flood was appointed to the Department as Academic Fellow in Sexualities; and has become the Book Reviews editor for the journal.

You can access the complete journal via the library if you are a student, or through subscription via Sage. Agnes Skamballis is the part time administrator of the journal, and can be contacted by email: jrnsexu (non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create a full email address).

Agnes Skamballis
Sexualities Administrator
Sociology Department
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Tel/Fax: +01206 873548

Submissions to the journal

The journal accepts electronic submissions along with 3 hard copies. The journal aims to publish social and cultural analyses and has the following goals….

It provides a forum for academic papers, reviews, commentaries and debate on both the empirical nature of contemporary sexualities and theoretical/critical analyses of them. The journal is broadly inter-disciplinary with a main focus on sociology, social psychology, ethnographic and qualitative research, cultural history and cultural anthropology, cultural studies, social geography, feminist research, media studies and lesbian and gay studies. Sexualities publishes work of an analytic and ethnographic nature, which describes, analyses, theorises, and provides a critique on the changing nature of the social organisation of human sexual experience in the late modern world. It seeks to inform about ‘lived life’ and ‘real world events’ and to stimulate debate and discussion over controversies surrounding contemporary sexualities.

Topics covered include:

  • Hi-tech and new technologies of sexualities
  • The (new) geography of sexualities
  • The stratification of sexualities
  • Queer theory and lesbian and gay studies
  • Reproductive rights
  • Sexualised identities/sexualised communities
  • Representations, pornography and mass media communication of sexualities
  • Sex work and sex tourism
  • Cross-generational sexualities
  • The diversification of sexualities
  • Methodologies of sex research
  • Sexual politics
  • Social aspects of health and sexuality/the construction and impacts of sexualities through HIV and AIDS
  • Key thinkers and theories
  • Love and intimacy
  • Boundaries and transgressive sexualities
  • Feminism and sexualities
  • Narratives of sexualities
  • Youth pregnancy and teenage sexualities
  • The gendering of sexualities
  • Organisational sexualities
  • Households and domestic economies
  • The pedagogy of sex
  • Sexual violence and harassment
  • Gender blending
  • Bodies and sexualities
  • Moral panics and the social regulation of sexualities

Analysis of article submissions

The most recent analysis of article submissions shows 96 articles submitted (excluding those for special issues) with an acceptance rate of 29%. The breakdown of this is:

  • Reject without referees 7
  • Reject with referees 30
  • Accept with referees 20
  • Revise and submit: reject 6
  • Revise and resubmit: accept 9
  • Withdraw 9
  • Pending/unknown 24

Papers are usually submitted for consideration from between 2 to 4 referees.

Ideally the review process takes six months, but there is currently quite a back log of articles being considered.

Details of current issue Volume 8

No 3 July 2005-07-07

  • Siobhan Huge-Jones Sexual Exhibitionism as “Sexuality and individuality”: a Critique Brendan Gough & of Psycho-Medical discourse from the Perspectives of Women Annie Littlewood
  • Sue Jackson ‘Dear Girlfriend’ Constructions Of Sexual Health Problems And Sexual Identities In Letters To A Teenage Magazine
  • Richard Ekins Science Politics and Clinical intervention: Harry Benjamin, Transsexualism and the Problem of Heteronormative
  • C.J. Pascoe Dude, You’re a Fag:” Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse
  • Russell Westhaver Coming out of your skin: Circuit"' Parties, Pleasure, and the Subject
  • Research note
    Yvette Taylor Inclusion, Exclusion, Exclusive? Sexual Citizenship and the Repeal of Section 28/2a
  • Anthropological Field Study Michael Kimmel Ritualised Homosexuality in a Nacirema Subculture

Book Reviews

  • Amy Agigian, Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination is Changing the World: review by Róisín Ryan-Flood
  • Jean Carabine (ed), Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy: review by Momin Rahman
  • Charlotte Suthrell, Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture review by Anne Beaumont -Vernon

Volume 8

No 4 October 2005-07-07

Special Issue: Pleasure and Danger Revisited

Guest Editor: Debbie Epstein

Introduction

Debbie Epstein & Emma Renold Pleasure and Danger Revisited: Sexualities in the 21st Century: Introduction (2,954 words).

Articles

  • Feona Attwood Fashion and Passion: Marketing Sex to Women (6,682 words).
  • Virginia Braun In search of (better) sexual pleasure: female genital ‘cosmetic’ surgery (7,250 words).
  • Amy Steinbugler Visibility as Privilege and Danger: Heterosexual and Same-Sex Interracial Intimacy in the 21st Century (7,606 words).
  • Christian Klesse Bisexual Women, Non-Monogamy and Differentialist Anti-Promiscuity Discourses (8,119 words).
  • Moira Carmody Ethical erotics - reconceptualising anti-rape education (6,858 words).
  • Judi Kdiger Stories of Redemption? Teenage Mothers as the New Sex Educators (6,348 words).
  • Rob Pattman “Boys and Girls Should Not Be Too Close.” Sexuality, the Identities of African Boys and Girls and HIV/AIDS Education. (8,386 words).
  • Anna Bredstrom "Love in Another Country" - race, gender and sexuality in Sexual Education Material Targeting Migrants in Sweden (7,563 words).

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Last modified on 17 December 2008