Recently added articles from Gender Forum:

Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

Oct 01, 2007; Frackman, Kyle ... Review: Tina Campt. Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. In Other Germans, Tina Campt offers a significant and timely contribution to German Studies, Holocaust scholarship, and ...

Gender and the Abject in Sartre

Oct 01, 2007; Fraunhofer, Hedwig ... There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. (Walter Benjamin, Illuminations 256) In this essay I will take Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection as a starting-point to explore the relationship of the French nation to German fascism in the ...

Introduction

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature as well as contemporary film and TVseries, the contributions featured in Gender Disgussed: Gender and the Abject employ Kristeva's concept of abjection and the abject in order to analyze the gender politics and rhetorics of the texts with ...

Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois

Oct 01, 2007; Bragg, Beauty ... Review: Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum, eds. Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Editors Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum have assembled a collection of remarkable essays which enact a "politics of juxtaposition" ...

The Erotics and Politics of Masochistic Self-Abjection in Jackass

Oct 01, 2007; Walsh, Fintan ... Within popular media circles in the 1990s, one of the recuperative strains of masculinity politics became known as 'laddism' or 'new laddism.' Central to laddism's various discursive inflections was the strategic infantilisation of males to the reductive stereotype that 'boys will be boys.' This ...

The Obscure Subject of Desire: Lucretia Borgia in Nineteenth-Century Literature1

Oct 01, 2007; Mittag, Martina ... The abject has only one quality of the object - that of being opposed to I. (Kristeva, Powers of Horror) This zone of uninhabitability will constitute the defining limit of the subject's domain [. . .], that site of dreaded identification against which [. . .] the domain of the subject ...