9 October, 2007

Please find a Call for Papers…
Call for papers for book:

Sexing Travel: Intimacy and Subjectivity in Women’s International Tourism

Edited by Susan Frohlick and Jessica Jacobs

Abstracts accepted until January 15, 2008
Full chapters due by July 1, 2008
2009 publication target date

We are seeking ethnographically informed papers that focus on the multiple dimensions of women’s participation in sexual and intimate relationships with local men or women in international tourist destinations, to be included in an edited volume on transnational/cultural intimacy and sexual subjectivity in women’s travel. We are currently looking into various channels for publication, and are aiming for eight contributors.

Scholarship on ‘ethno-sexual relations’ (Nagel, 2003) between tourists and locals is growing and reflects, in our view, the expansion of sex tourism in late capitalism from a predominantly masculine terrain (tied into ideas around the modern subject) and historical practice to a global phenomenon that includes the gendered consumption practices of First World women shaped by some women’s increasing economic power and mobility. Most work to date draws almost exclusively upon a political-economic framework that refers to “female sex tourists” or “romance tourists”, whose parameters are defined by women’s similarity (or difference) to male sex tourists. As well as sustaining the male subject at the center of the conceptualization of female sex tourism, we feel these approaches ignore the complex sensorial and emotional dimensions of women’s inter-racial, transcultural sexual and intimate relationships with local people in largely Southern and Third World countries. They also miss the opportunity to comment on the role these encounters play in new subject formations and transnational relationships.

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One of my favorite professors while studying at Logsdon. I’m grateful to Dan for teaching me the philosophical and theological traditions!  I deepened my interest to the craft of theology and he sent me off to Chicago in order that I might perfect my craft of theology. 

Though deeply in love with all things critical, I find myself falling into story…most often the stories of Jesus and all things Latin America and Political, but now its mostly creative nonfiction!  Thanks for the philosophical underpining and theological talks, Dan!  My mind continues to be spured onto goodness and is continually rooted in all things virtuous!

Cook-Derrick Professor Dr. Dan Stiver, professor of theology, will have the designation of Cook-Derrick Professor. Dr. Stiver, who began teaching in the Logsdon School of Theology in 1998, taught Logsdon’s first online course, Eschatology, in the fall of 2006. He continues to teach a distance-learning class involving HSU students and Logsdon students in Corpus Christi.