[4/15] Anarchism & Sexuality: A special issue of Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society

Deadline for paper submissions 15 April 2009.

Anarchism has long played a role in the politics of sexuality. Embodied in the historic figures of Emma Goldman, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter & Daniel Guérin or in social movements including ACT-UP, Mujeres Libres & Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the erotic and the anarchic have come together. Meanwhile, recent years have seen a revival of anarchist scholarship intertwined with the global rise of what some commentators have called "the movement of movements, "characterised by horizontal forms of organisation and the practice of anarchist ethics (Gordon, 2008). These movements against neoliberalism include within them alternatives to increasingly corporate-friendly & state-centred lesbian and gay politics.

Prospective authors are invited to consider the following themes (and to offer their own):

• the sexual politics of anarchisms;


• libertarian socialisms and autonomous feminisms;


• sexuality, gender, race, class & ecology in anarchist & anarchic movements;


• queering anarchisms;


• autonomous queer spaces;


• the sexual politics of hierarchy;


• sexuality and cultural activism