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Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought together to address this question from their respective fields: Political Theory, Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, Law, Geography, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Science, Literature, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Education and Economics. The resulting volume covers an extraordinary array of contexts, ranging from rethinking trans* bodies, to traumatized tribal communities, to sexualized violence, to assisted reproductive technologies, to the implications of epigenetics for understanding gender, and yet they are all connected by their focus on the importance of gender as a category of analysis. The publication of this volume celebrates the anniversary of the launch of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, and features contributions from past and future Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professors to the University.

Industrial society, or the regime of scarcity, is contrasted with the regime of gender that existed before it. In industrial society, human beings are defined as neutral entities on which the characteristic of sex has been superimposed; in all such societies, women are relatively disadvantaged. This is true equally in the reported economy, the unreported economy, & the nether economy of household production. It does not appear possible to end sexual inequality within industrial society. In preindustrial society, in contrast, almost no work existed that could be done by both men & women; the two did not even use the same tools. This is part of a category that can be called gender, which is distinct from sex & establishes two parallel social realities of men & of women. Vernacular culture is wholly organized around gender differences; this encompasses tools, economies, kinship, & marriage. Both space & time are divided between genders. The modern environment, in contrast, does not make allowance for separate realms of men & women, & in particular does not allow birth to take place in a separate domain of women. Interpretations of these past societies, insofar as they are based on sex rather than on gender, are unavoidably misleading. There appears to be no way in which industrial society's destruction of gender can be reversed, but the loss needs to be recognized if accurate social thought is to be possible. W. H. Stoddard.

part I. Gender and genre : Forbidding laughter / Dianna C. Niebylski ; Unruly women / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn ; Silent cinema / Maggie Hennefeld ; Not quite romantic comedy / Tarja Laine -- part II. The carnivalesque and the grotesque : The carnivalesque / Eleanor Ty ; The grotesque / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth ; Contemporary feminist art / Jo Anna Isaak ; Radio comedy / Anna Lundberg ; Medieval joy / Katell Lavaeant -- part III. Tonalities of laughter : "The laugh of the Medusa" / Birgit Mara Kaiser ; The queer laugh of the postmigrant / Mirielle Rosello ; Islamic feminist satire / Lara Cox ; Older women, humor, and social activism / Carole Roy ; Masculinity and ridicule / Anna Hickey-Moody ; Timothy Laurie ; Humorless lesbians / Don Kulick -- part IV. Performance and artifice : Racial masquerade / Kinohi Nishikawa ; Drag / Nicholas de Villiers ; Gender parody / Eva von Redecker ; Camp / Dolores McElroy ; Renaissance and restoration comedy / Celia R. Caputi -- part V. Materialities : Bodily excess / Katariina Kyroelae ; Crip humor / Susanne Hamscha ; Eroticism / Shannon Winnubst ; Laughing matter / Marie Thompson, Milla Tiainen ; Interspecies tickling / Lucinda Cole.

Gender Medizin ist eine Disziplin der Humanmedizin, die den Einfluss von biologischem (Sex) und psychosozialem Geschlecht (Gender) gemäß dem bio-psycho-sozialen Modell von Gesundheit und Krankheit berücksichtigt. Ziel ist es, die Lebensqualität über die gesamte Lebensspanne zu erhalten und eine optimale medizinische Versorgung aller Geschlechter zu ermöglichen. Geschichtliche Grundlagen waren die Frauenbewegung der 1960er Jahre und die daraus entstandene Frauen- und Männergesundheitsforschung.

Gender Mainstreaming ist eine gleichstellungspolitische Strategie, die daraufhin ausgerichtet ist, sämtliche Entscheidungen in einer Organisation kritisch auf ihre Auswirkungen auf die von geschlechterbezogenen Ungleichheiten unterschiedlich geprägte Lebensrealität von Frauen und Männern zu überprüfen und diesbezüglich bestehende Differenzen abzubauen. Kritik wird u. a. aufgrund der voraussetzungsreichen Umsetzung und der Gefahr, stereotype Geschlechterbilder zu verfestigen, geübt.

Gender und gesellschaftlicher Wandel Gerechte Sprache? Frauenquote? Ampelweibchen? Fluide Geschlechtsidentitäten? Was genau sind Gender Studies und was haben sie mit Feminismus zu tun? Jeweils ausgehend von einem aktuellen Ereignis wird anschaulich in die Grundlagen der Gender Studies eingeführt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass Diskussionen über das Thema 'Gender' seit jeher das gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Selbstverständnis des Menschen prägen. Die Verhältnisse der Geschlechter sowie ihre theoretische und praktische Neuverhandlung sind dabei sowohl Spiegel wie Antrieb gesellschaftlichen Wandels.

"Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom"--

The aim of this study is to define linguistic gender[lessness], with particular reference in the latter part of the article to Hungarian, and to show why it is a feminist issue. I will discuss the [socio]linguistics of linguistic gender in three types of languages, those, like German and the Romance languages, among others, which possess grammatical gender, languages such as English, with only pronominal gender (sometimes misnamed 'natural gender'), and languages such as Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric languages, as well as many other languages in the world, such as Turkish and Chinese, which have no linguistic or pronomial gender, but, like all languages, can make lexical gender distinctions. While in a narrow linguistic sense linguistic gender can be said to be afunctional, this does not take into account the ideological ramifications in gendered languages of the "leakage" between gender and sex[ism], while at the same time so-called genderless languages can express societal sexist assumptions linguistically through, for example, lexical gender, semantic derogation of women, and naming conventions. Thus, both languages with overt grammatical gender and those with gender-related asymmetries of a more covert nature show language to represent traditional cultural expectations, illustrating that linguistic gender is a feminist issue.