Special issue on emerging feminist work around sexuality and representation in theatre, music, television and literature. The articles contribute to the representations of sexualities and gender and develop ideas about the political potential of transgression and transgressive sexualities in contemporary and historical contexts.
In this special about the interfaces of auto/biography two articles and four essays centering around the uses and revalations of voice in auto/biography. Lu Bailey presents a complicated auto/biographical portrayal of the mostly invisible experiences and teaching conditions of over-worked and under-compensated contingent female faculty in contemporary academic institutions. Sharon Larson examines the intersection of masculine discourse and its construction of female voice and identity. By exploring the intersection of the male narrator's construction of female hysteria to Freud's case study Dora, Larson seeks to unveil the incapacity of Duras's male narrator to articulate feminine subjectivity. Larson then turns to Cixous's écriture féminine to re-locate female subjectivity in psychoanalytic discourse and auto/biographical writing, calling for a reader that reads such work not for the 'madness' of women but the complicity of the narrator and the possibility of other meanings to women's lives beyond masculine self-perceptions. The four essays move in similar directions: the ethics, challenges, and transformations of auto/biographical research.