Welcome from Feona Attwood, Roisin Ryan-Flood and Travis SK Kong
Abstract
Over the past 15 years, Sexualities has become the leading journal in the field of critical sexualities studies. This is in no small part due to the efforts of its founder, Ken Plummer, whose own scholarship in the field of sexualities studies remains hugely influential. As the new editors – Feona Attwood (Middlesex University), Róisín Ryan-Flood (University of Essex) and Travis SK Kong (The University of Hong Kong) – we will continue to build on the strengths of the journal, as well as developing new areas for growth and expansion. We will retain Sexualities’ distinctive identity as an inter-disciplinary and qualitative journal that presents cutting-edge research and debate on the material dimensions of sexualities and the social history and theoretical/critical analyses of these. Looking back at the agenda that Ken originally set out for Sexualities in 1995, we believe that the list of topics identified then are still of central importance for critical sexualities studies today. We have retitled a few of these: ‘Hi-tech and the new technologies of sexualities’ becomes ‘the new technologies of sexualities’; ‘sexualized identities’ becomes ‘sexual identities and cultures’; ‘cross-generational sexualities’ becomes ‘cross-generational sexualities, life course and ageing’; ‘love and intimacy’ becomes ‘love, family and intimacy’; and ‘gender blending’ becomes ‘trans* and sexuality'. The journal retains a central concern with questions of equality, human rights and citizenship. The following topics are ones that we would like to expand.