WSQ

Issues

Citizenship

WSQ: Volume 38, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2010

Edited by Terri Gordon-Zolov & Robin Rogers

The concept of nationalism conjures up feelings of belonging and allegiance, togetherness and protective boundaries, but what of alienation and xenophobia, immigration and asylum? How do we gauge social and political conflict in an age of national and transnational allegiances and identities?

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.

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.

Trans-

Volume 36, Numbers 3 & 4: Fall/Winter 2008

Edited by Lisa Jean Moore, Paisley Currah & Susan Stryker

This provocative collection explores the origins, meanings, and material practices that prevent "trans" from ever fitting into a stand-alone definition.

Witness

Volume 36, Numbers 1 & 2: Spring/Summer 2008

Irene Kacandes & Kathryn Abrams

Feminism was born of acts of witness, from Jeanne d'Arc to Mary Wollstonecraft to the Guerilla Girls. Witness exposes inequalities of power and how the act of witnessing has enabled women to reconceive themselves and challenge their societies.

Activisms

WSQ: Volume 35, Number 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2007

Edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson & Ethel Brooks

Scholars, writers, and artists explore the struggles of women and men, individually and collectively, for social justice and gender equity. Contributors include: Janet L. Finn, Ovadia Vargas, Fiona Kirkwood, Susan Hanson, and Piya Chatterjee.

The Sexual Body

Volume 35, Numbers 1 & 2: Spring/Summer 2007

Edited by Jennifer Morgan & Shelly Eversley

This provocative issue explores a range of topics, including photographer Renee Cox, filmmaker Spike Lee, the history of slavery, and cyber pornographer Shu Lea Cheang, as it reveals how society views, discusses, and practices sex today.