Gender Forum - Internet Journal for Gender Studies
Vol. 31 - Gender and Performance
Vol. 30 De-Voted - Gender and Politics
Vol. 29 - Private I, Public Eye: Gender and Exposure
Vol. 28 - EngAGEing Questions: Gender and Age
Vol. 27 - Off Centre: Eccentricity and Gender
Vol. 26 - Literature and Medicine II: Women in the Medical Profession
Vol. 25 - Literature and Medicine I: Women in the Medical Profession
Vol. 24 - Apparatus XY - Gender Praxes in the History of Chinese and Western Medicine
Vol. 23 - Race to Face: Gender, Ethnicity and the Media
Vol. 22 - Black Women’s Writing Revisited
Vol. 21 - Gender and Jewish Culture
Vol. 20 - Gender and Language
Vol. 19 - Illuminated Gender II: Gender and Illness
Special Issue Women in Power
Vol. 18- Gender Disgussed: Gender and the Abject
Vol. 17 - Working Out Gender
Vol. 16 - Gender Roomours II: Gender and Space
Vol. 15 - Gender Roomours I : Gender and Space
Vol. 14 - Rac(e)ing Guestions III: Gender and Postcolonial/Intercultural Issues
Vol. 13 - Imagendering II: Gendering and Visualization
Vol. 12 Illuminating Gender: Gender and Disease
Elisabeth Strowick The Infectious Performative. Contagion between Bacteriology and Literature.
Tanja Nusser Foreboding Forefathers: Cross(br)ed Desire, A Child and Dubious Parenthood. Goethe's Elective Affinities.
Christina Fisanick Too Fat, Too Hairy, Too (In)visible: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Normative Femininity.
Jozefina Komporály "Cripping up is the twenty-first century's answer to blacking up": Conversation with Kaite O'Reilly on theatre, feminism and disability
Review: Margret Sönser Breen and Warren J. Blumfeld, eds., Butler Matters. Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies. (Reviewed by Christina Wald)
Review: Helma Järviluoma, Pirkko Moisala & Anni Vilkko. Gender and Qualitative Methods. (Reviewed by Alyson Tyler)
Review: Judith Butler. Undoing Gender. (Reviewed by Dirk Schulz)
Excerpts from Kaite O'Reilly's play Peeling
Vol. 11 Imagendering:Gender and Visualization
Simone Celine Marshall "Perspectiva, Perspective, and the Narrative Frames of The Assembly of Ladies"
Review: Jon Binnie, The Globalization of Sexuality. (Reviewed by Brian Curtin)
Review: Felicity Nussbaum, The Limits of the Human. Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century. (Reviewed by Miriam Wallraven)
Review: Carol Christ, She Who Changes: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World . (Reviewed by Susan de Gaia)
Review: Caroline Bland and Máire Cross. Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter-Writing, 1750-2000.
(Reviewed by Jennifer Law Sullivan)
Four poems by Mary Kennan Herbert: "Bethesda Hospital," "Small Craft Warnings," "Wartime Years in St. Louis," "Not Your Usual Weekend at the Beach"
Vol. 10 - Rac(e)ing Questions II: Gender and Postcolonial/Intercultural Issues
Ralph Poole Trials of Rituals Female Bonding and the Colonial "Other" in Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar
Review: Roger N. Lancaster. The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture (Reviewed by Heather Merle Benbow)
Review: Peter Boag. Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest. (Reviewed by Jon Robert Adams)
Review: Diane Richardson and Steven Seidman (eds.). Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Reviewed by Isabel Karremann)
K.R. Randen: "Opening"
Vol. 9 - Male Accounts: Representing Masculinities
Shirley Sharon-Zisser Male Homosexuality in Both Sexes: Freud, Fliess, and Archaic Sexuality
Review: K. H. Adler. Jews and Gender in Liberation France. (Reviewed by Daniel P. Becker)
Review: Wayne H. Brekhus. Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity. (Reviewed by Martin Dines)
Review: Arturo J. Aldama (ed.). Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State. (Reviewed by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky)
Review: Valerie Martin. Property. (Reviewed by Cornelia Dahmer)
Review: Monica Ali. Brick Lane. (Reviewed by Stephanie Rott)
Poetry by Yvonne Zipter: "The Things I Own" and "Lucinda"
Vol. 8 - Gender Queeries: Queer Concerns
Ulrike E. Tancke and Anja Müller-Wood The Hidden Misogynies of Queering "light": The Case of The Hours
Susanne Jung Queering Popular Culture: Female Spectators and the Appeal of Writing Slash Fan Fiction
Dimple Godiwala Aunt Mary: The Dialectics of Desire
Susanne Gruss "People confuse personal relations with legal structures." An Interview with Margaret Atwood
Review: Weeks, Jeffrey. Sexuality. Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2002. (Reviewed by Georg Brunner)
Review: Heller, Tamar and Patricia Moran. Eds.Scenes of the Apple. Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003.(Reviewed by Aldona Pobutsky)
Review: Sylvia von Arx, Sabine Gisin, Ita Grosz-Ganzoni, Monika Leuzinger, Andreas Sidler (eds.). Koordinaten der Männlichkeit: Orientierungsversuche. Tübingen: edition diskord, 2003. (Reviewed by Isabel Karremann)
Review: Carol Shields: Unless. London: Fourth Estate, 2002. (Reviewed by Samantha Hume)
Julia Pascal: "Theresienstadt"
Vol. 7 - Anybody's Concerns II: Gender and the Body
ajaykumar The "Feminine Principle" in Butoh: A Methodology that Spans History, Cultures, and Disciplines?
Konstanze Kutzbach AnyBody's Simulacra: A Theoretical Approach to (Post-Gender) Identity
Tina Wald, Johanna Hauke and Chrissula Kalpaki "I want to create a European-Jewish-British Theatre Where Women Have a New Role" An interview with Julia Pascal
Review: David M. Halperin. How to Do the History of Homosexuality. (Reviewed by Isabel Karremann)
Review: Jagose, Annamarie. Inconsequence. Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence. (Reviewed by Peta Mayer)
(Reviewed by Sean O'Toole)
Review: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution. Couldn't Keep It To Myself. Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters. (Reviewed by Astrid Recker)
Review: Coming off Rage? Angry Young Women at the Royal Court in Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome, Gary Mitchell's Loyal Women, and Stella Feehily's Duck (Reviewed by Tina Wald)
Michelene Wandor: Draft of the first chapter of Barlines
Vol. 6 - Anybody's Concerns: Gender and the Body
Anna Furse (Goldsmith College, London, UK) Art of A.R.T.
Andrea Gutenberg (University of Cologne, Germany) "Know that I do not suffer, unlike you..." - Visual and Verbal Codings of Pain in Body and Performance Art"
Samantha Hume (University of Cologne, Germany) The narrative of male violence on women's bodies
Andrea Birk and Tina Wald (University of Cologne, Germany) "One of my missions as a playwright is to let the witches and the magic back in." An interview with Diane Samuels
Review: Hughes, Christina. Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and Research. London: Sage Publications, 2002. (Reviewed by Miriam Wallraven, University of Tübingen, Germany).
Vol. 5 - Gender Debat|tl|: Gender and War
Karin Ikas (University of Würzburg, Germany) A Message to the Emperor & "The Battle of the Cradle": Gendered Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Great War
Walter W. Hölbling (University of Graz, Austria) Texans, War Fever, and the Absence of the Female
Sylvia Vance (University of Alberta, Canada) "On the Knife-edge of Time": Katherine Burdekin and Naomi Mitchison
Annedith Schneider, Sabanci University, Istanbul (Turkey) Building the Nation: Narrating Women and the Algerian War
Review: Paulina Palmer. The Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. London and New York: Cassell, 1999.
(Reviewed by Konstanze Kutzbach, University of Cologne, Germany)
(Reviewed by Konstanze Kutzbach, University of Cologne, Germany)
Review: Penelope Deutscher. A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002. (Reviewed by Miriam Wallraven, University of Tübingen, Germany).
Review: Dimple Godiwala. Breaking the Bounds. Feminist Dramatists Writing in the Mainstream since c. 1980. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. (Reviewed by Tina Wald, University of Cologne, Germany)
Butoh and Transcending the Identity of Sex. Towards a "tantric" interpretation of Sankai Juku's Kagemi, Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, June 2003. (Reviewed by ajaykumar, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England)
Review: Richard II & Richard III staged at the Globe Theatre (Reviewed by Agata Maslowska, Jagiellonian University of Cracow, Poland).
Review: Roy Williams: Fallout (12 June - 19 July 2003 at the Royal Court Theatre downstairs) (Reviewed by Tina Wald, University of Cologne, Germany).
This issue features Jane Eaton Hamilton's short story "Goombay Smash."
Vol. 4 - H(a)unted Heroines: Gender, Madness, and the Demonic
Tina Wald, MA (University of Cologne, Germany): The Haunted Heroines of British Women's Plays of the 1990s.
Dr. Kirsten Kramer (University of Cologne, Germany): Performing the Demonic: Witchcraft, Skepticism and Gender Constructions in Michel de Montaigne's "De la force de l'imagination" and "Des Boyteux."
Dr. Monika Reif-Huelser (University of Konstanz, Germany): Living on the Borderline. Politics of Domination, States of Insanity and the Quest for Female Identity in the Work of Bessie Head.
Review: Peter Lehman (ed.). Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.
(Reviewed by Anja Müller-Wood, University of Trier, Germany).
(Reviewed by Anja Müller-Wood, University of Trier, Germany).
Review: Stephen M. Whitehead. Men and Masculinities: Key Themes and New Directions. Cambridge: Polity, 2002. (Reviewed by Isabel Karremann, University of Tübingen, Germany).
Review: Thomas R. West. Signs of Struggle. The Rhetorical Politics of Cultural Difference. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. (Reviewed by Stephanie Rott, University of Cologne, Germany).
Review: Helene Meyers. Femicidal Fears. Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. (Reviewed by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Wayne State University, Detroit, United States).
This issue features eight poems by five Bengali poets translated and edited by Dejani Chatterjee.
Vol. 3 - Rac(e)ing Questions: Gender and Postcolonial/Intercultural Issues
Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebrand (University of Cologne, Germany): Gender Meets Race: Andy Tennant's Anna and the King (1999) and Walter Lang's The King and I (1956).
Dr. Mita Banerjee (University of Mainz, Germany): Josephine Baker: Gendered Ethnicity on a Mainstream Stage.
Dr. Monika Müller (University of Cologne, Germany): Nineteenth-Century Narraceons: Race, Gender, and (National) Identity in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Dred and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.
Stephanie Rott, MA (University of Cologne, Germany): "Two Different Feelings at the Same Time." Interview with Atima Srivastava.
Review: Helene Moglen. The Trauma of Gender. A Feminist Theory of the English Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. (Reviewed by Cornelia Dahmer, MA, University of Frankfurt, Germany)
Review: Dyer, Richard. The Culture of Queers. London: Routledge, 2002. (Reviewed by Dirk Schulz, MA, University of Cologne, Germany).
Review: Carlson, Cindy L., Mazzola, Robert L. and Susan M. Bernardo (eds). Gender Reconstructions - Pornography and Perversion in Literature and Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. (Reviewed by Philipp Hofmann, MA, University of Cologne, Germany).
This issue features three poems by Sridhar Rajeswaran.
Vol. 2 - Mediating Gender: Gender and the Media
Prof. Dr. Hanjo Berressem (University of Cologne, Germany): Matter that Bodies. Philosophy in the Age of a Complex Materialism.
Prof. Dr. Nilufer E. Bharucha (University of Bombay, India): Of Devis, Devdaasis and Daayins: The Image of Women in Postcolonial Indian Cinema
Dirk Schulz, MA (University of Cologne, Germany): Where Do We Go from Queer? The Question of Naturalness and Normality in Literature, Film and the Media.
Wisker, Gina. Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing: A Critical Introduction. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. (Reviewed by Carmen Birkle, PhD, University of Mainz, Germany).
Adams, Kimberly VanEsveld, Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. (Reviewed by Monika Müller, PhD, University of Cologne, Germany).
Shannon Sullivan, Living Across and Through Skins. Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. (Reviewed by Astrid Recker, University of Cologne, Germany).
Sarita Malik, Representing Black Britain. A History of Black and Asian Images on British Television. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2002. (Reviewed by Stephanie Rott, University of Cologne, Germany).
Excerpt from Atima Srivastava's 1999 novel Looking for Maya.
Vol. 1 - Genderealisations: Locating Gender Studies
Prof. Natascha Würzbach (University of Cologne): The State of Gender Studies in Germany: The current situation in research, teaching and institutions.
Prof. Dr. Victoria L. Smith (University of Cologne): The Attack of the Fifty-Foot Women, or How (White, Anglo-American) Feminism Went From Jouissance to Melancholy
Prof. Dr. Chris Weedon (University of Cardiff): Key Issues in Postcolonial Feminism: A Western Perspective
Sara Ahmed, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post Coloniality (Reviewed by Paul Cooke, PhD, University of Aberystwyth, Wales).
Stephanie Lawler, Mothering the Self: Mothers, Daughters, Subjects (Reviewed by Alison Fell, PhD, Queens College, Oxford University, UK).
Murray Pomerance, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. Gender in film at the end of the twentieth century (Reviewed by Dirk Schulz, M.A., University of Cologne, Germany).
Gender, Race, and Internal Colonization: An Asian Americanist Review of Traise Yamamoto's Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body (Reviewed by Sarita See, PhD, Williams College, USA).
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