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6 In "Bedbound Beauty Queens: Negotiating Space and Gender in Contemporary Irish Drama" Mark Schreiber investigates how the confined spatial settings of two contemporary Irish plays provide an apt room for their theatrical problematisation of conflicts between social expectations and personal development. Drawing on Jameson's influential concept of "cognitive mapping," the analysis purports that the plays become representative of dramatisations testifying to the constructedness of identity in general and Ireland's national identity in particular.
7 In addition, Gender Roomours I presents an interview with the British playwright Helen Cooper as well as reviews of recent publications by Michael S. Kimmel, Jeff Hearn and R. W. Connell (eds.), Ina Habermann, as well as Martina Tißberger, Gabriele Dietze, Daniela Hrzán, and Jana Husmann-Kastein (eds.).