Volume 4, 2010
Gender, the Body, and Sexuality
Women and War
The first section on 'Gender, the Body, and Sexuality' explores issues that have been of fundamental importance to women's and gender studies since the 1970s. The second section brings together work on women and war, as well as contributions that focus on media representation of women during times of war with special attention paid to the Second World War.
The Forum section in this volume brings together specialists in women's and gender studies from Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia/former Yugoslavia and Hungary to discuss their experiences with the establishment of academic research on women and gender as well as the current situation within the field. Lastly, this volume of Aspasia offers book reviews and reports, including one on the Women's Library and Archives in Turkey where a conference was held to celebrate its twentieth anniversary.