- Detailed table of contents
- Editorial
- Elizabeth J. Clark: Policing, Politicizing, Poeticizing the Virgin/Whore Split: Contemporary American Women's Poetry about AIDS
- Amber Dean: At the Limits of Materiality / At the Limits of Discourse: Feminist Struggles to Make Sense of Depression in Women
- Heike Hartung: "Doleful ditties" and Stories of Survival - Narrative Approaches to Breast Cancer in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Sontag
- Gabriele Kaczmarczyk: Concept and Organisation of the Master's Degree Program "Health and Society: International Gender Studies Berlin" at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a joint facility of the Humboldt University and the Free University Berlin in co-operation with the Berlin School of Public Health
- Review: Frances Heidensohn, ed. “Gender and Justice: New Concepts and Approaches.” Portland, OR: Willan Publishing, 2006.
- Review: Cara Carmichael Aitchison, ed. “Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities.” London: Routledge, 2007.
- Review: Kath Woodward. “Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The 'I' of the Tiger.” New York: Routledge, 2007.
Resuming the discussion of gender, health, and illness begun in Illuminating Gender I, the contributions to our current issue continue to address discursive conceptualizations of illness. In their analyses of a wide array of women's narratives and poetry, dealing with illnesses so diverse as breast cancer, depression, and HIV/AIDS, the articles comprised in Illuminating II illustrate how women have contested normative notions of gender and illness. The discussion of these questions is completed by the outline of a newly founded health sciences master's program focusing on the nexus of gender and public health.
