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About gender forum

gender forum is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to issues of gender. As an electronic journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts. Inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier in 2002, the issues of the journal have focused on a multitude of questions from different theoretical perspectives of feminist criticism, masculinity studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and queer studies. gender forum also includes reviews and occasionally interviews, fictional pieces and poetry with a gender studies angle.

gender forum is edited by Judith Rauscher together with Susanne Gruß and Johanna Pitetti-Heil together with an international advisory editorial board and a wonderful team of student assistants and editorial interns.

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Current Issues

Issue 82: Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction (II)

Edited with an Introduction by Judith Rauscher (Cologne) and Marta Usiekniewicz (Warsaw)

Articles

  • Michaela Keck: Women’s Complicity, Resistance, and Moral Agency: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments

  • Sladja Blazan: ‘Something Beyond Pain’: Race, Gender, and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

  • Tram Nguyen: Feminist Memorializations in Marge Piercy and Rafael Carter

  • Stina Novak and Corina Wieser-Cox: “This is the World We Made”: Queer Allegory, Neo-Colonial Militarization and Scientific Ethics in The Old Guard (2020)

Find the full issue and more information about gender forum here.


 

Issue 81: Gender and Sexuality in Australian Speculative Fiction

Edited with an Introduction by Bettina Burger (Düsseldorf), David Kern (Cologne), and Lucas Mattila (Düsseldorf)

Articles

  • Christina Slopek: "Aboriginal Speculations: Queer Rhetoric and Interspecies Conviviality in The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf"

  • Victoria Herche: "Queering the Dreaming: Representations of the ‘Other’ in the Indigenous Speculative Television Series Cleverman"

  • Marthe-Siobhán Hecke: “'But you will be a girl heroes fear' – Mia Corvere’s Gender Portrayal and Queerness in Jay Kristoff’s The Nevernight Chronicle"

  • Judith Rahn: "Of Bees and Women: Femininity and Climate Change Mireille Juchau’s The World Without Us"

  • Katrin Altans: "The New-Clear Family in Times of the Anthropocene: The Nea-Human and Her Family in James Bradley’s Ghost Species"

Reviews

  • Julia Hahn-Klose: Review of Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology and Literature (2021), edited by Douglas A. Vakoch


 

Upcoming Issues

Issue 83: Early Career Researcher Issue 2022

Edited with an Introduction by Alexandra Novacov, Judith Rauscher, and Sara Tewelde-Negassi (all University of Cologne)

Articles

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Reviews

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Once it has been published, you will be able to find the full issue and more information about gender forum here.


 

Issue 84: Gender, Age, and the New Media

Edited with an Introduction by Ruth Gehrmann (JGU Mainz) and Julia Velten (JGU Mainz)

Articles

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Reviews

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Once it has been published, you will be able to find the full issue and more information about gender forum here.