Genders Journal

Genders Journal

Issue 52    2010

Manufacturing Hysteria The Import of U.S. Abortion Rhetorics to Poland By JUSTYNA WLODARCZYK

Getting The Girl Wittig and Zeig's Trojan Horse By JULIE SCANLON

You Have Not What You Ought Gender and Corporeal Intelligibility in Henry Fielding's The Female Husband  By EMILY BOWLES

Boys and Girls Come Out to Play Gender and Music-Making in Hamilton, New Zealand/Aotearoa  By MATTHEW BANNISTER

Jocasta and the Rebirth of Matriarchy Embodied Spectatorship in Margaret Oliphant's "The Portrait"  By DEBORAH MANION

Everybody Has a Mammy: The Productive Discomfort of Louise Beavers' Movie Maids By KAREN BEAVERS

Issue 51    2010

Gender as the Next Top Model of Global Consumer-Citizenship By LINDSAY PALMER

"I Really Must Be an Emma Bovary" Female Literacy and Adultery in Feminist Fiction By SUZANNE LEONARD

The Englishman in America Masculinity in Love and Death on Long Island and Father of Frankenstein By PÁRAIC FINNERTY

Bar and Dog Collar Commodity, Subculture, and Narrative in Jane DeLynn By GUY DAVIDSON

Woolf's Orlando and the Resonances of Trans Studies By CHRIS COFFMAN

From Humanitarian Intervention to the Beautifying Mission Afghan Women and Beauty without Borders By PURNIMA BOSE 

Issue 50     2009

State of Transformation Drag Queen Masculinity in Two Scottish Texts By CAROLE JONES

Section 377 and the “Trouble with Statism” Legal Intervention and Queer Performativity in Contemporary India By NISHANT SHAHANI

Raskolnikova Rodion Romanovich's Struggle with the Woman Within By MARTA L. WILKINSON

Striking the Posture of a Whore The Bawdy House Riots and the “Antitheatrical Prejudice” By KATHERINE ROMACK

Out of Wedlock The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction By JADE MCKAY and ELIZABETH PARSONS

Sheparding Romance Reviving the Politics of Romantic Love in Brokeback Mountain By BARBARA KOZIAK

Issue 49     2009

Are You Finally Comfortable in Your Own Skin? The Raced and Classed Imperatives for Somatic/Spiritual Salvation in The Swan By BRENDA R. WEBER and KAREN W. TICE

Misfortune and Men's Eyes Voyeurism, Sorrow, and the Homosocial in Three Early Brian De Palma Films By DAVID GREVEN

Lily: Sold Out! The Queer Feminism of Lily Tomlin By JENNIFER REED

The Cinematic Shrews of Teen Comedy Gendering Shakespeare in Twentieth-Century Film By ZACHARY LAMM

The Lack of Chinese Lesbians Double Crossing in Blue Gate Crossing By AARON K. H. HO

On Mothers Without Citizenship An Interview with Lynn Fujiwara By PAMELA THOMA

Issue 48     2008   - GOING CHEAP? Female Celebrity in Reality, Tabloid and Scandal Genres

Mother of the Year Kathy Hilton, Lynne Spears, Dina Lohan, and Bad Celebrity Motherhood By SHELLEY COBB

Fame is a Losing Game Celebrity Gossip Blogging, Bitch Culture, and Post-feminism By KIRSTY FAIRCLOUGH

The Horror of Something to See Celebrity "Vaginas" as Prostheses By MARGARET SCHWARTZ

From Bad Girl to Mad Girl British Female Celebrity, Reality Products, and the Pathologization of Pop-feminism By EMMA BELL

Living The Hills Life Lauren Conrad as Reality Star, Soap Opera Heroine, and Brand By ALICE LEPPERT and JULIE WILSON

Issue 47     2008

Latchkey Hero Masculinity, Class and the Gothic in Eric Kripke's Supernatural By JULIA M. WRIGHT

From Croft to Campus Extra-Marital Pregnancy and the Scottish Literary Renaissance By CHARLOTTE FAIRLIE

M/Othering the Children Pregnancy and Motherhood as Obstacle to Self-Actualization in Jane Eyre By TRACY LEMASTER

On the Semiotic Basis of Knowledge and Ethics An Interview with Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio
about their new book, Semiotics Unbound By DANIEL PUNDAY

Danny DeVito's Body By MICHAEL TAVEL CLARKE

Cartographies of a Violent Landscape Viramontes' and Moraga's Remapping of Feminisms in Under the Feet of Jesus and Heroes and Saints By ARIANNE BURFORD

Minnesota's Hot Mamas An interview with Joanna Inglot By JENNIE KLEIN

Issue 46     2007

The Hand With Two Sides Male Flight Self-Mutilation and the Constructed Feminine By ERIN LYNDAL MARTIN

Eminem, Masculine Striving, and the Dangers of Possessive Individualism By KIM D. HESTER-WILLIAMS

Queen Latifah, Unruly Women, and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy By LINDA MIZEJEWSKI

The Perilous and Imperiled Black Family Romance Sujata Moorti interviews Candice M. Jenkins about her new book, Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy By SUJATA MOORTI

Big Bad Chinese Mama Asian cyber-feminism and subversive textual strategies By CHRIS HUDSON

Issue 45     2007

Male Stewardesses Male Flight Attendants as a Queer Miscarriage of Justice By PHIL TIEMEYER

Perspectives by Incongruity Kenneth Burke and Queer Theory By DUSTIN BRADLEY GOLTZ

Bodies At Rest, Bodies In Motion Physical Competence, Women's Fitness, and Feminism By CAROL–ANN FARKAS

Becoming My Own Ghost Spinsterhood, Heterosexuality and Sarah Waters's Affinity By RACHEL CARROLL

Fantasies of Union The Queer National Romance in My Beautiful Laundrette By ALEXANDRA BARRON

Romance as Political Aesthetic in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love By EMILY S. DAVIS

Issue 44     2006

The Gender of Money By DIANE CADY

Feminine Freakishness Carnivalesque Bodies in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus By WENDY O’BRIEN

Subjectivity Politics in Sorrow Mountain Transnational Feminism and Tibetan Autobiography By ALEXANDRA W. SCHULTHEIS

Jet-Man Meets Cover Girl at the F-111 By KRISTIN U. FEDDERS

Making Over Masculinity A Queer "I" for the Straight Guy By DENNIS W. ALLEN

Working Gender/Fading Taxonomies By JUDITH ROOF

Issue 43     2006

Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Motherhood By MARY THOMPSON

Black and White Masculinity in Three Steven Soderbergh Films By ELAINE ROTH

Agreeable Objects and Angry Paintings "Female Imagery" in Art by Hannah Wilke and Louise Fishman, 1970-1973 By MARGO HOBBS THOMPSON

Lesbian Violence as Fascist Crusade in Monster By TERRI GINSBERG

Postcolonial Masculinity 1947, Partition Violence and Nationalism  in the Indian Public Sphere By KAVITA DAIYA

Unintended Consequences of the Feminist Sex/Gender Distinction By ASIA FRIEDMAN

Issue 42     2005

Why Must They Take the Bus?  Editorial on the New Orleans Disaster By ANN KIBBEY

Kiwi Blokes Recontextualising White New Zealand Masculinities in a Global Setting By MATTHEW BANNISTER

"Let's Moider Mother" Heavenly Creatures and the Politics of Delusion By BETTY JAY

Passing As Queer and Racing Toward Whiteness To Wong Foo, Thanks but No Thanks By KATHRYN KANE

Metrosexuality the Middle Class Way Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy By BETH BERILA and DEVIKA DIBYA CHOUDHURI

Stillborns, Orphans, and Self-Proclaimed Virgins Packaging and Policing the Rural Women of Cane By JESSICA HAYS BALDANZI

Trauma Studies and Faulkner's Sanctuary Sex, Sexuality, Race, and American Literature By D. STRINGER

Issue 41     2005

Beauty, Desire, and Anxiety The Economy of Sameness in ABC's Extreme Makeover By BRENDA R. WEBER

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy The Rise of the Male Heterosexual Teenager By JEFFERY P. DENNIS

Mystically Perverse Towards a Queer Semiology of Breton Male Bodies By JOHN POTVIN

"Blanca from the Block" Whiteness and the Transnational Latina Body By STEPHEN KNADLER

"To Be Real" Drag, Minstrelsy and Identity in the New Millennium By ESTHER GODFREY

Passing as a"Lady" Nationalist Narratives of Femininity, Race, and Class in Elite Canadian Figure Skating By KAREN MCGARRY

Issue 40     2004 - Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the "Horror Film" 

Race, Gender and Terror The Primitive in 1950s Horror Films By PATRICK GONDER

NeoSlaves Slavery, Freedom, and African American Apotheosis in Candyman, The Matrix, and The Green Mile By KIM D. HESTER-WILLIAMS

Passing For Horror Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s Pinky By MIRIAM J. PETTY

The Horrors of Remembrance The Altered Visual Aesthetic of Horror in Jonathan Demme’s Beloved By ELLEN C. SCOTT

Technologies of Race Special Effects, Fetish, Film, and the Fifteenth Century By MARK WINOKUR

Daywalkin’ Night Stalkin’ Bloodsuckas Black Vampires in Contemporary Film By FRANCES GATEWARD

Issue 39     2004

A Labour of Patriotism Female Soviet Gymnasts’ Physical and Ideological Work, 1952-1991 By WENDY VARNEY

States of Emergency The Labors of Lesbian Desire in ER By DANA HELLER

"Quality Postfeminism?"  Sex and the Single Girl on HBO By DIANE NEGRA

Subversion of the In/Out Model in Understanding Hemingway Texts By CHIKAKO TANIMOTO

Dialogues between Paul Virilio and Chela Sandoval.Towards a better understanding of uses and abuses of new technologies By INGRID MARIA HOOFD

Family, Sexuality, Gender, Art Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Vivien Green-Fryd about her new book, Art and the Crisis of Marriage By JO-ANNE BERELOWITZ

Issue 38     2003

Disenfranchised Bodies Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Writings on the Partition By DEBALI MOOKERJEA-LEONARD

Utopia and Castration How to Read the History of Homosexuality By JEFF KING

Smoke and Mirrors Feminism, Figurality, and “The Vine-Leaf” By VALERIE ROHY

Elaine de Kooning, Portraiture, and the Politics of Sexuality By CELIA S. STAHR

Rhetoric of the Medical Management of Intersexed Children New insights into "Disease", "Curing", "Illness" and "Healing" By J. DAVID HESTER

Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism's Third Wave: "I'm Not My Mother" By KATHLEEN ROWE KARLYN

Stage Door Jennies Brett Farmer interviews Stacy Wolf about her New Book, A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical. By BRETT FARMER

Issue 37     2003

Editorial Page: The Current Political Climate By Members of the Editorial Board

Clarence Holbrook Carter's War Bride and the Machine/Woman Fantasy By PATRICIA VETTEL-BECKER

Multiplicity and Its Discontents Feminist Narratives of Transnational Belonging By DALIA KANDIYOTI

Flesh in the Word Billy Budd, Sailor, Compulsory Homosociality, and the Uses of Queer Desire By DAVID GREVEN

Curing Boys Don't Cry Brandon Teena's Stories By CAROL SIEGEL

'Oi. Dancing Boy!' Masculinity, Sexuality, and Youth in Billy Elliot By CYNTHIA WEBER

Refashioning Masculine Identity Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Martin A. Berger about his book: Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood. By JO-ANNE BERELOWITZ

Issue 36     2002

Dictators, Movie Stars, and Martyrs The Politics of Spectacle in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters By MYRA MENDIBLE

Consuming Pleasures of Re/Production Going Behind the Scenes in Spielberg's Jurassic Park and at Universal Studios Theme Park By ANN BRIGHAM

Embodied Modernities Feminist Agency in Singapore Women's Literature By ESHA NIYOGI DE

Japan's Feminist Fabulation Reading Marginal with Unisex Reproduction as a Keyconcept By AKIKO EBIHARA

Memories of Bilitis Marie Laurencin beyond the Cubist Context By ELIZABETH OTTO

Cutting through Narcissism Queer Visibility in Scorpio Rising By PATRICK S. BRENNAN

Labor Camp  Brett Farmer interviews Matthew Tinkcom about his New Book, Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema By BRETT FARMER

Issue 35     2002

The Gender Politics of Justice A Semiotic Analysis of The Verdict By ANN KIBBEY

American Formalist Aesthetics and the Gendered Body Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Marcia Brennan
about her New Book, Painting Gender, Constructing Theory, The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics By JO-ANNE BERELOWITZ

"I Want It That Way" Teenybopper Music and the Girling of Boy Bands By GAYLE WALD

"What is the Matter with Mary Jane?" Madeleine Smith, Legal Ambiguity, and the Gendered Aesthetic of Victorian Criminality By SHEILA SULLIVAN

There is No Masculinity Crisis By JAMES HEARTFIELD

What is Prior?  Working-Class Masculinity in Pat Barker's Trilogy By PETER HITCHCOCK

Gender, Class and the Humanities in the Corporate University By RONALD STRICKLAND

How My Dick Spent Its Summer Vacation  Labor, Leisure, And Masculinity On The Web By RYAN BISHOP AND LILLIAN S. ROBINSON

Issue 34     2001

Skins, Patches, and Plug-ins Becoming Woman in the New Gaming Culture By ALLYSON D. POLSKY

Violence Against Prostitutes and a Re-evaluation of the Counterpublic Sphere By JOSHUA M. PRICE

Whatever Turns You On Becoming-Lesbian and the Production of Desire in the Xenaverse By JEANNE E. HAMMING

A Myth Beyond the Phallus Female Fetishism in Kathy Acker's Late Novels By CHRISTOPHER KOCELA

Passionate Fictions Horizons of the Exotic and Colonial Self-Fashioning in Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's Na Hanyate By SRIPARNA BASU

Fritz Bultman's Actaeon Paintings Sexuality, Punishment, and Oedipal Conflict By EVAN R. FIRESTONE

The Evolution of a Lesbian Icon Annamarie Jagose interviews Laura Doan about her New Book, Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture By ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

Issue 33     2001

Disentangling the Strangled Tehuana The Nationalist Antinomy in Frida Kahlo's "What the Water Has Given Me" By JEFFREY BELNAP

A Journey Shared  Ursula Biemann's Been There and Back to Nowhere: Gender in Transnational Spaces  By JO-ANNE BERELOWITZ

To Mirror Tomorrow Reflections on Feminism and the Future By E. L. McCALLUM

Between Here and There Feminist Solidarity and Afghan Women By SHAHNAZ KHAN

Hollywood Homosexuals Annamarie Jagose interviews Brett Farmer about His New Book, Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships By ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

The Dawn of the Hillary Clinton Backlash An Introduction By FRANCES E. DOLAN

Elizabeth Cromwell's Kitchen Court Republicanism and the Consort By KATHARINE GILLESPIE

Queen Consorts, the Common People, and Modern Populism By MELISSA MOWRY

Issue 32     2000

The Politics of Representation Genre, Gender Violence and Justice By ELAYNE RAPPING

Technology and the Construction of Gender in Fritz Lang's Metropolis By PETER RUPPERT

Hollywood Lesbians Annamarie Jagose interviews Patricia White about Her Latest Book, Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability By ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

Inflamed Passions Fire, the Woman Question, and the Policing of Cultural Borders By SUJATA MOORTI

Feminist Art and (Post)Modern Anxieties The Judy Chicago Retrospective By COURTNEY BAILEY

Abject Criticism By DEBORAH CASLAV COVINO

Jouissance of the Commodities Rimbaud against Erotic Reification By MERRILL COLE

Issue 31     2000

Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells By STEPHANIE ATHEY

Queer World Making  Annamarie Jagose interviews Michael Warner By ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

Performing the Closet Grids and Suits in the Early Art of Gilbert and George By KATHERINE BOURGUIGNON

Women's Classic Blues in Toni Morrison's Jazz Cultural Artifact as Narrator By TRACEY SHERARD

Sutures in Ink National (Dis)Identification and the Seaman's Tattoo By CHRISTINE BRAUNBERGER

The One Who Loved My Work A Meditation on Art Criticism By CHRISTINA OLSON SPIESEL

Virginia Woolf's Two Bodies By MOLLY HITE

Issue 30     1999

A Site of Subaltern Articulation The Ecstatic Female Body in the Contemporary Bangladeshi Novels of Taslima Nasrin By SAIYEDA KHATUN

Truth, Speech, and Ethics A Feminist Revision of Free Speech Theory By SUSAN H. WILLIAMS

"Going Straight" Camera Work as Men's Work in the Gendering of American Photography, 1900-1923 By COLIN EISLER

Rethinking Law and Fatherhood Male Subjectivity in the Film A Perfect World By AUSTIN SARAT

Elizabeth Dole and Conservative Feminist Politics By KATHY RUDY

Lecter Knows Worst Justice as Marginal Value and the Law of Series in Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs By SALAH el MONCEF

Issue 29     1999

The Real of Edye-Icon Edye Smith, The Oklahoma City Bombing, and the Mobilization of Ideologies By MARGARET HIRSCHBERG

Class, Gender, and Public Education A Material History of the Academy By MELISSA M. MOWRY

Masculinity Without Men Interview with Judith Halberstam About Her Latest Book, Female Masculinity By ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

The Racial Double Standard Behind the Littleton School Shooting Authorities Couldn't See the Trench Coats for the Trees By J. ELYSE SINGLETON

Close Encounters on Screen Gender and the Loss of the Field By JUDITH ROOF

Signing Woolf The Textual Body of the Name By EYAL AMIRAN

Of Beauty Pageants and Barbie Theorizing Consumption in Asian American Transnational Feminism By PAMELA THOMA

Issue 28     1998

Freedom of Expression An Essay on Rights, Relation and Recognition By STEVEN J. HEYMAN

Tropical Rearwindow Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and Primitivist Ambivalence By LEE WALLACE

Watch Yourself Performance, Sexual Difference, and National Identity in the Irish Plays of Frank McGuinness By SUSAN C. HARRIS

Las Comadres A Feminist Collective Negotiates a New Paradigm for Women at the U.S./Mexico Border By JO-ANNE BERELOWITZ

Inspectin' and Collecting The Scene of Carl Van Vechten By BETH A. McCOY

Feminine Intensities Soap Opera Viewing as a Technology of Gender By ROBYN R. WARHOL

"O, Soften him! or harden me!" Childbirth, Torture, and Technology in Richardson's Pamela By BONNIE BLACKWELL

Afghanistan's Forgotten Women News and commentary By ROB SCHULTHEIS

Issue 27     1998

Stricken Deer Secrecy, Homophobia, and the Rise of the Suburban Man By ANDREW ELFENBEIN

Picturizing Race Hollywood's Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through Imitation of Life    [37 illus. & film clip] By SUSAN COURTNEY

Theories of Materiality and Location Moving Through Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless By DANIEL PUNDAY

Obscene Publics Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs By BRUCE BURGETT

Visions of Life on the Border Wonderland Women, Imperial Travelers, and Bourgeois Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century By LAURA E. CIOLKOWSKI

Minding One's P's and Q's Homoeroticism in Star Trek: The Next Generation.By ATARA STEIN

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