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Inhalt: Kampmann, Sabine/Karentzos, Alexandra/Küpper, Thomas: Einleitung: Gender Studies und Systemtheorie. - Hellmann, Kai-Uwe: 1988 - und was nun? Eine Zwischenbilanz zum Verhältnis von Systemtheorie und Gender Studies. - Weinbach, Christine: Systemtheorie und Gender: Geschlechtliche Ungleichheit in der funktional differenzierten Gesellschaft. - Binczek, Natalie: Die Biologie der Medium/Form-Unterscheidung. - Gruber, Bettina: Gender als Strategie der Dauer. Eine Lektüre von Baudelaires "Une Charogne". - Steinweg, Dagmar: Der Tanz ums Triviale. Geschlechterdifferenz und literarische Wertung in der russischen Kultur um 1900. - Küpper, Thomas: "Ist es wahre Liebe...?" Kitsch und Camp aus evolutionstheoretischer Sicht. - Karentzos, Alexandra: Manifest für Ironiker/innen. Zur Kunst der Beobachtung. - Kampmann, Sabine: Was heißt eigentlich Post-Feminismus? ".. eine möglichst trittsichere und graziöse Flucht nach vorn" (Pipilotti Rist) (HoF/Text übernommen)

This paper explores the link between globalization, as the source of contemporary crises in representation, and the academic crisis in Asian Studies. The situation of Japanese Studies in Australia is used as a case study to illustrate these links. I argue that traditional area studies, as a colonial structure rooted in the (Cold) War, has become anachronistic. It is suggested that one strategy through which conventional area studies may be reconfigured and revitalized is by more fully and warmly embracing those movements or networks such as cultural studies that can be seen as responses to global changes.

Suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Cultural studies, by treating culture as "ideology," focuses on sites in which meaning is produced & contested, in turn, undermining any clear distinction between politics & culture. Consequently a broader approach to the political is demanded than has traditionally been taken by political science. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.