[ecrea] Call for Book Chapters - Pornographies: Critical Positions

Edited Book: Pornographies: Critical Positions

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 12 January 2015



Pornography has long been a controversial topic in the Social Sciences, 
Arts and Humanities, though recently scholars and activists from a 
variety of disciplinary and experiential backgrounds have begun to move 
beyond divisive ‘for and against’ arguments to focus closely on 
pornography’s many instantiations, its problems and potentials, and its 
relationships with established and new theoretical and methodological 
approaches. As such, the multiplicity of perspectives in the emerging 
interdisciplinary field of Porn Studies is rivalled only by the 
diversity, proliferation, mutability and mainstreaming of pornographies 
themselves. This edited, peer-reviewed volume will constitute a snapshot 
of current academic thought in relation to pornographies in order to 
reflect and put into dialogue the many innovative approaches that seek 
to understand porn cultures, histories, social relations and political 
economies.



We particularly welcome proposals for chapters from new voices in the 
study of pornography and envisage that these will sit alongside, 
challenge and complement work from more established writers in the field.



Topics may include but are not restricted to:



·         Alternative pornographies

·         Amateur pornographies

·         Close reading of specific pornographic texts in relation to 
constructions of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and/or social class

·         Consumption and/or production of pornographies

·         Critical perspectives on gender, postfeminism and discourses 
of empowerment

·         Disability, bodies and pornography

·         LGBT pornographies and pornographic subcultures

·         ‘Mummy porn’ (50 Shades of Grey, etc.) and literary pornographies

·         Political pornographies

·         Porn histories and genres

·         ‘Pornification’ and the mainstreaming of pornography in mass 
culture

·         Self-pornification via social media

·         Sex-positive feminist perspectives on pornography and 
critiques of this

·         ‘Dirty’ food marketing

·         Fetishized porn and categories of ‘other’

·         Sex workers and the porn industry

·         Porn for women



The volume will be part of the University of Chester’s Issues in the 
Social Sciences (Series Editor: Katherine Harrison) and will be 
published by University of Chester Press (further information about the 
Press can be viewed here; details of a recent publication in the series 
can be viewed here). Finished chapters will be 6,500 words in length and 
written in accessible style for a diverse readership.



If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this volume please 
send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biographical note 
detailing institutional affiliation (where applicable) to both Katherine 
Harrison ((k.harrison /at/ chester.ac.uk)) and Cassie Ogden 
((c.ogden /at/ chester.ac.uk)) by 12 January 2015.



Contributors will be informed of acceptance by 30 January 2015. Final 
drafts of chapters will be expected in April 2015 with publication 
scheduled for summer 2016. All contributions will be reviewed by the 
editors and, additionally, blind peer reviewed by an expert reader.



Dr Katherine Harrison

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

CBB119 Best Building

Department of Social and Political Science

University of Chester

Chester CH1 4BJ

Tel. +44 (0)1244512032

Email: (k.harrison /at/ chester.ac.uk)

Series Editor: Issues in the Social Sciences

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