En-Gender! (Web)

En-Gender started out as a journal in 2018, but it is much more now: It has a working paper series, a blog, a network of researchers, readings lists and yearly conferences. The aim is to establish an international community for the study of gender in the cultural studies, social sciences and humanities.
The network wants to create a joint community for undergraduate and postgraduate scholars on gender. The current focus is on queer and postcolonial studies. En-Gender wants to make projects, essays, term papers, bachelor and master theses, conferences and workshop papers with innovative approaches and questions of gender accessible to a wider public. The network offers young academics the opportunity to publish their own work and also to gain expertise in peer reviewing and editing publications. Co-Founder & Editor-in-chief ist Jessica Albrecht (Univ. of Heidelberg), the network consists of these international researchers: Read more … (Web)

Blog and podcast: Since the beginning of 2022, part of the weblog is also the podcast of E-Gender. The third season of the podcast series has just started. The focus of the new season will be on queer and trans studies: Hear more … (Web)

Publication series: Since 2018, these issues of the journal and the working paper series have been published in open access:

Vol. 6 (2023) (Web)

• Sakshi Arya: Dining with the Despot. Consumption of postcolonial disorders in contemporary culinary experience (2023)

Vol. 5 (2023): Activism, Borders and Media (Web)

• Andreea Moise: Chernobyl Strawberry Jam. Mythicising Diasporic Guilt as Gendered Autopathography in Vesna Goldsworthy’s Chernobyl Strawberries
• Rachel Abreu: Negotiating Representation. Ethnic Minority Women’s Experiences of Beauty on Instagram
• Dean Leetal: Let Me Turn Monster. Shakespeare’s Arden Forest and Trans Geography
• Claude Kempen: Queering the Boy Who Narrated. Overcoming Normative Readings of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
• Bianka Szendrei: Blackqueering the Future in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer (2018)

Vol. 4 (2022): Gender, Politics, Art (Web)

• Jones, Elena: The Gendered Portraits and Writing of Claude Cahun. Gender Performance, Masks, Mirrors, and Photography
• Armstrong, Sylvie: Surrogates on Strike?
• Marina Pinedo: “The World’s Oldest Oppression” An Intersectional Abolitionist Look at the Sex Trade

Vol. 3 (2020/21) (Web)

• Ashley Thompson: Written Into Violence. The Treatment of Women’s Bodies in Twelfth Century Literature (2021)
• Cristiano Cardone: „Thousand Suns“. The Isiac Cult’s Presence in Naples Through an Esoteric and Gender-Based Perspective (2021)
• Rebecca L. Anne: “You’re either a ho or an innocent little baby.” Self-surveillance, regulation of the sexual body, and moral anxiety among American Evangelical teenage girls (2021)
• Rajdeep Johal: Gender Inequality and Religious Personal Laws. The Limits of a Uniform Civil Code from an Intersectional Perspective and its Illusion of Secularism (2021)
• Patrick Vernon: The Office Politics of Sexuality: Open Plan Space as a Contemporary Panopticon (2020)
• Rianna Price: Medical Imagination: Homosexuality in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 1970-1980 (2020)
• Olivia Stanek: Piety, patriarchy and politics: A relationship with the power to control women’s reproductive rights in Poland (2020)

Vol. 2 (2020): Gender and Biography (Web)

• Sophie Fauerbach: Henry Steel Olcott und der Buddhistische Katechismus
• Ross Cameron: Biography and Balkanism in the Travel Writing of Edith Durham
• Hella de Haas: Politikerinnen und Machtzuschreibungen. Die historische sowie aktuelle Darstellung von Politikerinnen in den Medien
• Jovana Perovic and Jessica A. Albrecht: Writing biographies on female religious leaders. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Annie Besant between a “search for truth”and“self-fulfillment”
• Christoph Wilhelm: Randständigkeit als Chance. Über die Intersektionalität von Geschlecht, Klasse und Herkunft in Autosoziobiographien und deren Implikationen für den Erkenntnisgewinn in der Erziehungswissenschaft

Vol. 1 (2018): New interpretations (Web)

• Amanda Gavin: Youthful Transgressions: Same-Sex Male Sexuality and Hierarchies of Masculinity in Renaissance Italy
• Robyn Skelton: From ‘Romantic Friendships’ to Boston Marriages: Victorian Women in Same-Sex Unions
• Amy Watson: Masculinity, Public Order and Family: The Opprobrium and Legal Prohibitions Directed Against Male Homosexuality in England, the United States and Russia c.1880-1960
• Aine O’Malley: The Reconstruction of Masculinities from the Victorian and Edwardian Period into Interwar Britain
• Amber Stout: Contributions to the Rise of Man-Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England
• Corinne Groeneveldt: Exploring the Origins and Survival of ‘Churching’ in England, and the Implications of This Practice for How the Historian Should Look Upon Religious Change and Secularisation
• Jessica Albrecht: Gendered Citizenship, Suffrage and Reproduction in the Writings and Lives of Nineteenth Century French Feminists Jeanne Deroin and Jenny P. d’Héricourt
• Anna McEwan: To What Extent Can Sex Be Described as a ‘Free Space’ for Women in the East German Democratic Republic (GDR)?