Genders

#18, Winter 1993
#17, Fall 1993
#16, Spring 1993
#15, Winter 1992
#14, Fall 1992
#13, Spring 1992
#12, Winter 1991
#11, Fall 1991
#10, Spring 1991
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#18, Winter 1993

Cyberpunk: Technologies of Cultural Identity—A Special Issue

Introduction—Incurably Informed: The Pleasures and Dangers of Cyberpunk

Thomas Foster

Meat Puppets or Robopaths?: Cyberpunk and the Question of Embodiment

Thomas Foster

(En)gendering Cyberspace in Neuromancer: Postmodern Subjectivity and Virtual Motherhood

Eva Cherniavsky

Humanist History and the Haunting of Virtual Worlds: Problems of Memory and Rememoration

Kathleen Biddick

Morphing, Materialism, and the Marketing of Xenogenesis

Stephanie A. Smith

Muscular Circuitry: The Invincible Armored Cyborg in Cinema

Claudia Springer

The Last Days of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Albert Liu

"Death Is Irrelevant": Cyborgs, Reproduction, and the Future of Male Hysteria

Cynthia J. Fuchs

#17, Fall 1993

Do Clothes Make the Woman?: Gender, Performance Theory, and Lesbian Eroticism

Kath Weston

L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Body of Marilyn Monroe

Jo-Anne Berelowitz

Wombs of War: Henry Moore's Repositioning of Gender

Laura Doan

The Failed Copy: Giovanni's Room and the (Re)Contextualization of Difference

Donald H. Mengay

Scenes of a Crime: Genesis, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Dora, and Originary Narratives

Susan Stanford Friedman

The Politics of Theory: Generations and Geographies Feminist Theory and the Histories of Art Histories

Griselda Pollock

The Politics of Queer Theory in the (Post)Modern Moment

Donald Morton

The Oedipal West: Two Engendered Photo Histories

Marcia Salo

#16, Spring 1993

Challenging Abuse and Assault—A Special Issue

Dominating Men: Male Dominance on Company Expense in a Japanese Hostess Club

Anne Allison

"Into the light, Leland, into the light": Emerson, Oedipus, and the Blindness of Male Desire in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks"

Samuel Kimball

The Incident of the 'Crawling Lane': Women in the Punjab Disturbances of 1919

Vinay Lal

Intimacy, Complicity, and the Imagination: Adrienne Rich's Twenty-one Love Poems

Sandra Runzo

Bodily Harm: Female Containment and Abuse in the Romance Narrative

Grace A. Epstein

"Not Like Women at All": Black Female Subjectivity in Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die

Grant Farred

Male Sexuality and Contemporary Jewish Literature in German: The Damaged Body as the Image of the Damaged Soul

Sander L. Gilman

#15, Winter 1992

The Feminist Logic of Both/And

Eve Tavor Bannet

The Estrangement Effect in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose

Marta E. Sánchez

Male Lesbian Bodies: The Construction of Alternative Masculinities in Courbet, Baudelaire, and Swinburne

Thais E. Morgan

Murder as Speech: Narrative Subjectivity in Marleen Gorris' A Question of Silence

Geetha Ramanathan

Theorizing Ethnicity and Subjectivity: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Malini Johar Schueller

HomoVision: A Reading of Freud's "Fetishism"

Whitney Davis

#14, Fall 1992

Karen Finley's Dirty Work: Censorship, Homophobia, and the NEA

Lynda Hart

The Subaltern Does not Speak: Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! as a Postcolonial Text

Samir Dayal

How IVF Exploits the Wish to Be a Mother: A Psychoanalyst's Account

Silvia Tubert

A Woman Writes the Fiction of Science: The Body in Frankenstein

Mary A. Favret

Anais Nin: Author(iz)ing the Erotic Body

Karen Brennan

Reading the Anorexic Maze

Albaraq Mahbobah

Theorizing Social Reproduction: On the Origins of Decentered Subjectivity

Muriel Dimen

#13, Spring 1992

Sexuality in the Gulf War: Did You Measure Up?

Abouali Farmanfarmaian

Irigaray and the Lesbian Body: Remedy and Poison

Annamarie Jagose

Pop Art Domesticated: Class and Taste in Tom Wesselmann's Collages

Cécile Whiting

Postmodern Misogyny in Blue Velvet

Jane M. Shattuc

Rebecca West's Second Thoughts on Feminism

Sue Thomas

"Romantic Friendship" and Patriarchal Narrative in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall

George E. Haggerty

Color and Difference in Abstract Painting: The Ultimate Case of Monochrome

Ann Gibson

#12, Winter 1991

Liberalism, Libido, Liberation: Baldwin's Another Country

William A. Cohen

The Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature: Negotiating Feminisms across East/West Boundaries

Lydia H. Liu

Plotting Paternity: Looking for Dad on the Daytime Soaps

Laura Stempel Mumford

Did She or Didn't She?: The Discourse of Scandal in the 1988 U.S. Presidential Campaign

Laura Castor

Writing Out Color in Renaissance Theory

Patricia L. Reilly

Doll-Machines and Butcher-Shop Meat: Models of Childbirth in the Early Stages of Industrial Capitalism

Andrea Henderson

Troping Prostitution: Two or Three Things about (Post-)Marxism/Feminism

Robert Miklitsch

#11, Fall 1991

Postmodern Women Novelists Review Victorian Male Masochism

Carol Siegel

Coffee Table Sex: Robert Mapplethorpe and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Life

Paul Morrison

The Bonds of Free Love: Constructing the Female Bohemian Self

Nina Miller

Bloomsbury Bashing: Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties

Christopher Reed

C'mon, Girl: Oprah Winfrey and the Discourse of Feminine Talk

Gloria-Jean Masciarotte

Consent after Liberalism? A Review Essay of Catharine MacKinnon's Toward a Feminist Theory of the State and Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract

Lori Chamberlain

Commentary

Re-politicizing Gender: A Response to Desley Deacon

Carol Bacchi and Alison Mackinnon

Reply to "Re-politicizing Gender"

Desley Deacon

#10, Spring 1991

Theorizing Nationality, Sexuality, and Race—A Special Issue

US. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World

Chela Sandoval

The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counter-Insurgency

Jenny Sharpe

Excess and Understatement: War, Romance, and the Melodrama in Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema

Gina Marchetti

Reading Gayatri Spivak's "French Feminism in an International Frame": A Problem for Theory

Silvia Tandeciarz

On "Difference"

Linda Gordon

Unveiling Algeria

Winifred Woodhull

Theorizing Woman: Funu, Guojia, Jiating [Chinese Women; Chinese State, Chinese Family]

Tani Barlow

#9, November 1990

Lana's "Imitation": Melodramatic Repetition and the Gender Performative

Judith Butler

The Greatest Story (N)ever Told: The Spectacle of Recantation

Helena Michie

Hollywood Melodrama, Douglas Sirk, and the Repression of the Female Subject (Magnificent Obsession)

Michael Selig

Engendering Imaginary Modernism: Henri Matisse's Bonheur de vivre

Margaret Werth

Double-dealing Fictions

Sarah Schuyler

Nation, Class, and Gender: Tennyson's Maud and War

Joseph Bristow

Closet Dramas: Homosexual Representation and Class in Postwar British Theater

Alan Sinfield

#8, July 1990

The Cultural Politics of Perversion: Augustine, Shakespeare, Freud, Foucault

Jonathan Dollimore

"The Very House of Difference": Gender as "Embattled" Standpoint

Thomas Foster

A Spurious Set(Up): "Fetching Females" and "Seductive" Theories in Phaedrus, "Plato's Pharmacy", and Spurs

Katherine Cummings

Ending Difference/Different Endings: Class, Closure, and Collectivity in Women's Proletarian Fiction

Paula Rabinowitz

A Woman's Place and the Rural School in the United States

Suzanne Clark

Demon Lover Diary: Deconstructing Sex, Class, and Cultural Power in Documentary

Patricia R. Zimmerman

Quality Television and Feminine Narcissism: The Shrew and the Covergirl

Hilary Radner

Commentary

Femme Foetal: The construciton/destruction of female subjectivity in Housekeeping, or NOTHING GAINED

Siân Mile

#7, March 1990

The Politics of the Sexual Body—A Special Issue

Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly

Susan McClary

Wilde, Barthes, and the Orgasmics of Truth

Kevin Kopelson

The Unreadable Black Body: "Conventional" Poetic Form in the Harlem Renaissance

Amitai F. Avi-ram

Depoliticizing Women: Female Agency, the French Revolution, and the Art of Boucher and David

Erica Rand

Women, Pleasure, and Painting (e.g., Boucher)

Eunice Lipton

Posing the Woman Citizen: The Contradictions of Stanton's Feminism

Mary Loeffelholz

Either/Or—Neither/Both: Sexual Ambiguity and the Ideology of Gender

Julia Epstein

Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930

Kathy Peiss

#6, November 1989

Politicizing Gender

Desley Deacon

"the landscape (chosen by desire)": Laura Gilpin Renegotiates Mother Nature

Karen Hust

The Scene of Seeing: Perception and Perversion in The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein

Karen Smythe

Writing the Gender of the Image: Art Criticism in Late Nineteenth-Century France

Anne Higonnet

A Sick Child and a Cure: Mother-Daughter Relations in Colette

Bethany Ladimer

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Search for the Radical Woman

Anna Wilson

Abulia: Sexuality and Diseases of the Will in the Late Nineteenth Century

John H. Smith

Some Speculations on the History of Sexual Intercourse during the Long Eighteenth Century in England

Henry Abelove

#5, July 1989

On Reading Gertrude Stein

Ellen E. Berry

Constructing Myths and Ideologies in Matisse's Odalisques

Marilynn Lincoln Board

Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing "Female" and "Male" in Japan

Jennifer Robertson

Blood, Kinship, and Gender

Anita Levy

Transsexualized Origins: Reflections on Descartes's Meditations

Jacquelyn N. Zita

Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening

Margit Stange

Do or Die: Problems of Agency and Gender in the Aesthetics of Murder

Josephine McDonagh

#4, March 1989

Flesh of His Flesh: Amputation in Moby Dick and S. W. Mitchell's Medical Papers

Leslie Katz

Inside the Sentimental: The Psychological Work of The Wide Wide World

Nancy Schnog

Postmodern Pictures of Erotic Fantasy and Social Space

Carol Zemel

Shapes of Grief: Freud, Hamlet, and Mourning

Kenneth Reinhard and Julia Lupton

Disordered Bodies/Disorderly Acts: Medical Discourse and the Female Criminal in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Ann-Louise Shapiro

The "Charming Distinction": Ur-teil as the En-gendering of Reason in Kant's Thought

Olga Lucia Valbuena

D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny": Agency, Intersubjectivity, and the Prostitute

Amanda S. Anderson

"Ariel, Save Us": Big Stick Polemics in Frank Lentricchia's Ariel and the Police

Melita Schaum

Responses

Comment on Claire Kahane: Questioning the Maternal Voice

Alicia Ostriker

Reply to Alicia Ostriker

Claire Kahane

#3, November 1988

The Gender Bind: Women and the Disciplines

Nancy Armstrong

Salman Rushdie: Marginality, Women, and Shame

Inderpal Grewal

The Transsexual as Anders in Christa Wolf's "Self-Experiment"

Anne Herrmann

Privileging the Anus: Anna O. and the Collaborative Origin of Psychoanalysis

Wayne Koestenbaum

Questioning the Maternal Voice

Claire Kahane

Feminism, Art History, and Sexual Difference

Lisa Tickner

#2, July 1988

Madonnas of the Fields: Photography, Gender, and 1930s Farm Relief

Wendy Kozol

Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide

Jonathan Dollimore

A Dangerous Alliance: Anglo-Indian Literary Criticism and Bengali Literary Production (1870-1880)

Lou Ratté

The Flying Island and Female Anatomy: Gynaecology and Power in Gulliver's Travels

Susan Bruce

"A Veil of Ice between My Heart and the Fire": Michelangelo's Sexual Identity and Early Modern Constructs of Homosexuality

James M. Saslow

In the Realm of the Senses: Desire, Power, and the Representation of the Male Body

Peter Lehman

Sab C'est Moi

Doris Sommer

#1, March 1988

"A Bit of Her Flesh": Circumcision and "The Signification of the Phallus" in Daniel Deronda

Mary Wilson Carpenter

Embracing the Absolute: The Politics of the Female Subject in Seventeenth Century England

Catherine Gallagher

It's in the Can: Jasper Johns and the Anal Society

Jonathan Weinberg

The Oscillating Embrace: Subjection and Interpellation in Barbara Kruger's Art

Nancy D. Campbell

Holding the Fort! Instituting Genders, Engendering Institutions

Andrew Parker

"Descend and Touch and Enter": Tennyson's Strange Manner of Address

Christopher Craft

Privilege of Unknowing

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick