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Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures (working title), an Edited VolumeCall for Papers for an edited volume (under contract with the Ashgate Press): GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN MUSLIM CULTURES (working title) edited by Gul Ozyegin. I am seeking essays that address and illuminate issues relating to gender and sexuality in contemporary Egypt, Pakistan, and Syria. This edited volume aims to bring into view a vast array of issues affecting construction of contemporary Muslim identities in a range of nation-states (Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Pakistan) and that are shaping the notoriously difficult and slippery designator that is "Islam," including democratization, war, violence, youth culture, global neoliberalism, and religious nationalism. A series of key questions will guide the volume: How does close attention to gender and sexuality broaden our understanding of Muslim-majority countries? What analytical questions are raised about the category of "Islam" when its diverse referents and multi-faceted manifestations are brought into view? How does the embodiment of "Muslim" identity get reconfigured in the context of 21st century globalism? What role does the use of gender and sexuality play in the construction of cultural, religious, nationalistic, communal, or militaristic identities? How have global dynamics, for example, the intensification and spread of neoliberal ideologies and policies, affect on changing dynamics of gender relations and sexuality in specific locales? This volume seeks contributors from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary and from a range of theoretical, methodological, and critical frameworks that circumvent both religious and gender essentialism and transcend orientalist misconceptions with a finely tuned analysis where identities are given a careful, complicated, non-essentialist accounts. Each of the essays will be composed for the expressed purpose of investigating the complex and often contradictory intersections among the three categories announced in the title of the book: gender, sexuality and Muslim. The volume could be used in both undergraduate and graduate classes in Sociology, Anthropology, Women's Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. Please send proposals of 1,000 words, along with a CV or full list of credentials, to Gul Ozyegin (gxozye@wm.edu) by April 15, 2013. Proposals will be reviewed immediately and notification will be made by early May 2013. Final drafts of papers will be due by November 4, 2013. Gul Ozyegin Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program Associate Professor of Sociology The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Va 23185 757 221 2453Gul OzyeginDirector of Gender,Sexuality, and Women's Studies ProgramThe College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, VA 23185Email: gxozye@wm.edu