Greta Olson is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany, and general editor of the European Journal of English Studies.

Daniel Hartley is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Mirjam Horn-Schott is Head of Division Conferences, Programme Assistance at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany.

Leonie Schmidt is a lecturer and PhD fellow in English and American Literature and Culture at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.

Contents

Beyond Gender: Towards a Decolonized Queer Feminist Future

Greta Olson and Mirjam Horn-Schott

Part I Undoing Gender Studies - Theoretical Positionings

1. The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Mars and Venus in Language and Gender Research

Jennifer Coates

2. Masculinity Studies: Contemporary Approaches and Alternative Perspectives

Stefan Horlacher

3. Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been, Where Do We Return to, Repeatedly? The Seriality of Feminist Critique and Gender Studies

Sabine Sielke

4. "Slavery to an Assembly Line is Not a Liberation from Slavery to the Kitchen Sink": Assessing Social Reproduction Theory's Challenge to Liberal-Feminist and Classical-Marxist Paradigms

Daniel Hartley

5. Modes of Being vs. Categories - Queering the Tools of Intersectionality

Gabriele Dietze, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, and Beatrice Michaelis

Part II Forms of Practice - Doing the 'After' of Gender Studies

6. Fictions of Sexual Amnesia

Ina Schabert

7. Loving Feminism: Negotiating Differences in the Classroom

Greta Olson

8. Unseemly Desire - Disciplining and Othering the Sexuality of Women in Later Life

Katharina Zilles

9. The Politics of Neo-Liberal Postfeminist Bridal Culture

Franka Heise

10. Small-Screen Tweenage Angst: Feminist Icons and (Anti-)Heroines in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture

Mirjam Horn-Schott

11. The "Yes" Which Is Not One: Consent, the Law, and the Limits of False Consciousness Feminism

Jordana Greenblatt

12. Autonomous Sri Lankan Women's Organizations and Their Engagements with LBT Advocacy

Shermal Wijewardene

13. "It's a space shuttle!" Opening up Queer* Spaces through the Performing Arts