Illuminating Gender II

Gender and Illness

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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.

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Notes

1) The archetype of the virgin/whore split is abundant in literature. One particularly useful discussion and explanation of it is in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera. See especially pages 16-18 and 28-34 (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987).
2) In Inventing AIDS (New York: Routledge, 1990), Patton outlines the need for activism versus charity. She writes, "AIDS activists — many of whom had themselves received an AIDS/ARC diagnosis — worked with gay and heterosexual PLWAs in the context of community organizing rather than altruism, and understood their work in terms of political resistance rather than compassion" (21).
3) This article focuses on four poets. Some other U.S. women poets writing significantly about HIV/AIDS include: Rachel Hadas, Sonia Sanchez, Joan Logghe, Belle Waring, Joan Larkin, Marilyn Hacker, Jean Valentine and Charlotte Mayerson. Michael Klein's Poets for Life (New York: Persea Books, 1989) and the sequel, Things Shaped in Passing (with Richard McCann. New York: Persea, 1997), are good places to begin to explore the wide range of HIV/AIDS authorship in the U.S.

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