WSQ

Issues

Viral

WSQ Volume 40, Numbers 1&2 Spring/Summer 2012
Edited by Patricia Clough & Jasbir Puar

When we think of something as "viral," we often think of the transit of electronic information at an intensified speed and reach. Viral also refers to indiscriminate exchanges, often linked with notions of bodily contamination, uncontainability, and unwelcome transgression of border and boundaries.

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Ruin

Volume 39, Numbers 3&4 Fall/Winter 2011
Edited by Sarah Chinn & Rupal Oza
Our obsession with disaster and why we ruin everything as we struggle to fix it.

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Safe

Volume 39, Numbers 1&2 Spring/Summer 2011
Edited by Kyoo Lee & Alyson M. Cole
A collection of scholarly essays exploring topics of consumer and personal fears and safety.

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Market

WSQ: Volume 38, Numbers 3&4, Fall/Winter 2010
Edited by Mara Einstein & Joe Rollins
The market can be on Wall Street or Main Street, psychological and physiological, traditional, viral or stealth. The issue explores urgent questions about charitable giving, "green" capitalism, women's bodies, and the vicissitudes of globalization.

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Citizenship

WSQ: Volume 38, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2010
Edited by Terri Gordon-Zolov & Robin Rogers
What does it mean to be a citizen today as our societies are defined not only by transnationalism, but also by anti-immigrant policies in the name of security?

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Mother

Volume 37, Number 3&4, Fall/Winter 2009
Edited by Nicole Cooley & Pamela Stone
Celebrity baby-bump sightings, televised debates between stay-at-home moms and working moms, LGBT moms, and men as moms—WSQ explores the cultural contradictions of the motherhood craze.

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Technologies

Vol 37, Nos 1&2 Spring/Summer 2009
Edited by Karen Throsby & Sarah Hodges
Rigorous, thoughtful, and irreverent, the newest issue of WSQ explores how cyberspace, surgery, and bloggers are altering concepts of gender.

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    • Trans-
    • Edited by Lisa Jean Moore, Paisley Currah & Susan Stryker
    • Witness
    • Irene Kacandes & Kathryn Abrams
    • Activisms
    • Edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson & Ethel Brooks