Sexualities, Rights, Development

A Special Issue Call for the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies
Guest Editor: Andil Gosine

This Special Issue of CRGS invites submissions from researchers engaged in analysis of sexual rights, practices and identities in the Caribbean.

Caribbean sexualities are processed through complex entanglements between local, national and transnational interests, reflected in socioeconomic policies and relationships, legal and religious texts, social and cultural norms, and advocacy initiatives. This issue of CRGS hopes to feature papers particularly concerned with analysis of transnational, feminist and queer interventions in development that form part of these production and regulation processes, including:

• responses by State and non-State actors to HIV and AIDS;
• sexual health and education programs;
• gender initiatives in development theory and practices (e.g. Women In Development (WID), Gender and Development (GAD) frameworks);
• “queering development” initiatives;
• campaigns by organized religious institutions;
• local/global lesbian and gay organizing; public education campaigns and legal reforms on sexual violence;
• cultural production (literature, music, mass media);
• rights-based approaches to development, including those for and against the identification of “sexual rights” as components of citizenship and development;
• regulations on sex work and other forms of transactional sex; and,
• economic and social programs which may not explicitly identify sexual regulation as an organizing component or objective of their work, but which are nevertheless engaged in the maintenance and production of sexual norms (e.g. heteronormativity).

We are especially interested in papers that provide analysis of the multifaceted and multi-tiered aspects and components of the international development industry, and comparative country studies.


Review process of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies

The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies was created to stimulate cross-cultural exchanges among Caribbean peoples within the region, those in the Caribbean Diaspora, as well as those who bring a comparative perspective to bear on Caribbean gender and feminist concerns. The journal is established around an identity and voice emanating from Caribbean realities of the effects of power in gender, ethnicity and class relations. Thus, it is committed to discourses of heterogeneity rather than to discourses of dominance. The journal welcomes critical disciplinary or multi-disciplinary scholarly articles and creative contributions that broaden networks and enhance the global understanding and reach of Caribbean feminist thinking. Submissions to the journal are sent to two independent reviewers, one internal from within the Caribbean and the other external, outside of the region. They are sent ‘blind’ to the respective reviewers who return the comments to the journal. These comments are subsequently forwarded to the author for consideration. Where necessary, after the author complies with the reviewer’s comments, the submission is resubmitted to the reviewer or it may be vetted by the editor, before being sent to the Editorial Board for final approval. Each contribution is also copy edited for language, style and referencing before publication.


Deadlines
Scholars may submit complete papers (5000-6000 words) or abstracts (500 words)for papers-in-process by September 30 2008, to andil@yorku.ca.
Authors of accepted abstracts/papers [for review] may be invited to participate in a workshop at CDGS-St. Augustine, provisionally planned for February/March 2009.

Further Information
Andil Gosine, Guest Editor (andil@yorku.ca)
Donna Drayton, Editorial Asssitant (drayton@uwi.edu.tt)