Please post
CALL FOR PAPERS - EDITED COLLECTION
Please e-mail 200 word abstracts to m.m.miller@sussex.ac.uk by 25
November 2000
Race, Gender, Sexuality and Colonialism
From their inception, European sciences such as anthropology and
biology, developed through the rationalisation of colonial regimes,
employed a structure in which the creation of sex and race were
interdependent. The constant creation of race through sexual difference
and sex through racial difference and the realtionship of both of these
to European supremacy is evident in virtually all texts of 18th and 19th
century European natural science and in the structure of colonial law.
Yet somehow, in contemporary theory, many of us view theorisations of
race as the purview of "third world" scholars writing about Blackness,
while we see theories of gender and sexuality as part of a white
European queerness being exported around the world.
Essays are sought from scholars of literature, history, and critical
theory who are working on theoretical intersections between ideologies
of race, culture, nationalism, gender and sexuality. This collection
seeks first to decenter the U.S./Western European hegemony in theories
of gender and sexuality and further to explore the useful
cross-fertilisations between theorisations of colonialism, race, gender
and sexuality. Papers might cover any and all texts or historical
periods or may concern purely theory.
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