Henriette Gunkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 105591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henriette Gunkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henriette |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunkel |
| SIGNATURE | GUNKEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3958-9994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Future Bodies: A Brief Overview
If you ask ChatGPT in summer 2024 about "future bodies", it will tell you that it is a concept that explores the potential evolution, enhancement, and transformation of the human body through technology, science, and cultural shifts.Future bodies are always simultaneously the product of scientific and technological possibilities and fictional imaginings or speculations.Science and practices of 'fictioning' are encountered in an interand transdisc…
Geteilte Körperlichkeit und verteilte Körperlichkeit: Ein Gespräch mit Christopher Coenen
Alienation and Queer Discontent
Lift Off… an Introduction
Authors
We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions
Some Reflections on Postcolonial Homophobia, Local Interventions, and LGBTI Solidarity Online: The Politics of Global Petitions
In the last two decades we have witnessed an increase in online petitions and campaigns emerging from Europe and North America against homophobia in various African countries, creating a particular form of visibility with some remarkable global success. Based on these online petitions and postings as well as the responses of African activists, this article reflects on the politics of this global queer solidarity. By suggesting a restrategizing of…
Queer Times Indeed? Südafrikas Reaktionen auf die mediale Inszenierung der 800-Meter-Läuferin Caster Semenya
Article Queer Times Indeed? Südafrikas Reaktionen auf die mediale Inszenierung der 800-Meter-Läuferin Caster Semenya was published on May 1, 2012 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 30, issue 1)
The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa
Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and intimacy and on the country more generally. While in 1996, South Africa became the first country in the worl…
‘I myself had a sweetie …’: Re‐thinking female same‐sex intimacy beyond the institution of marriage and identity politics
This article is understood as an intervention into current debates around the question of rights in relation to sexuality and in particular to issues of same‐sex marriages and alternative family structures. As the interpretation of rights in relation to sexuality generally focuses on gay identities, this article reflects on the effects of these discourses on non‐normative modes of sexuality and intimacy. More specifically the article focuses on i…
Through the Postcolonial Eyes: Images of Gender and Female Sexuality in Contemporary South Africa
This article explores cultural representations of the lesbian in post-apartheid South Africa by focusing on images by the Black lesbian activist and photographer Zanele Muholi. In her work Muholi challenges visual regimes of sexuality and the body by pointing to practices and commodities that transgress normative perceptions of (hetero)sexuality. At the same time her images visualize the negotiations of local representations of female same-sex in…
What's Identity Got To Do With It?” Rethinking Intimacy and Homosociality in Contemporary South Africa
The article focuses on female same-sex intimacy, specifically so-called “mummy–baby” relationships among schoolgirls in contemporary South Africa. The underlying negotiations with colonial but also post-colonial discourses of sexuality, identity, and gender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) rights, and the problem of naming, are examined here. While post-apartheid South Africa was the first country in the world to …
Some Reflections on Postcolonial Homophobia, Local Interventions, and LGBTI Solidarity Online: The Politics of Global Petitions
In the last two decades we have witnessed an increase in online petitions and campaigns emerging from Europe and North America against homophobia in various African countries, creating a particular form of visibility with some remarkable global success. Based on these online petitions and postings as well as the responses of African activists, this article reflects on the politics of this global queer solidarity. By suggesting a restrategizing of…
Through the Postcolonial Eyes: Images of Gender and Female Sexuality in Contemporary South Africa
This article explores cultural representations of the lesbian in post-apartheid South Africa by focusing on images by the Black lesbian activist and photographer Zanele Muholi. In her work Muholi challenges visual regimes of sexuality and the body by pointing to practices and commodities that transgress normative perceptions of (hetero)sexuality. At the same time her images visualize the negotiations of local representations of female same-sex in…
What's Identity Got To Do With It?” Rethinking Intimacy and Homosociality in Contemporary South Africa
The article focuses on female same-sex intimacy, specifically so-called “mummy–baby” relationships among schoolgirls in contemporary South Africa. The underlying negotiations with colonial but also post-colonial discourses of sexuality, identity, and gender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) rights, and the problem of naming, are examined here. While post-apartheid South Africa was the first country in the world to …
Queer Times Indeed? Südafrikas Reaktionen auf die mediale Inszenierung der 800-Meter-Läuferin Caster Semenya
Article Queer Times Indeed? Südafrikas Reaktionen auf die mediale Inszenierung der 800-Meter-Läuferin Caster Semenya was published on May 1, 2012 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 30, issue 1)
Through the Postcolonial Eyes: Images of Gender and Female Sexuality in Contemporary South Africa
This article explores cultural representations of the lesbian in post-apartheid South Africa by focusing on images by the Black lesbian activist and photographer Zanele Muholi. In her work Muholi challenges visual regimes of sexuality and the body by pointing to practices and commodities that transgress normative perceptions of (hetero)sexuality. At the same time her images visualize the negotiations of local representations of female same-sex in…
What's Identity Got To Do With It?” Rethinking Intimacy and Homosociality in Contemporary South Africa
The article focuses on female same-sex intimacy, specifically so-called “mummy–baby” relationships among schoolgirls in contemporary South Africa. The underlying negotiations with colonial but also post-colonial discourses of sexuality, identity, and gender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) rights, and the problem of naming, are examined here. While post-apartheid South Africa was the first country in the world to …
The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa
Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and intimacy and on the country more generally. While in 1996, South Africa became the first country in the worl…
‘I myself had a sweetie …’: Re‐thinking female same‐sex intimacy beyond the institution of marriage and identity politics
This article is understood as an intervention into current debates around the question of rights in relation to sexuality and in particular to issues of same‐sex marriages and alternative family structures. As the interpretation of rights in relation to sexuality generally focuses on gay identities, this article reflects on the effects of these discourses on non‐normative modes of sexuality and intimacy. More specifically the article focuses on i…
Queer Times Indeed? Südafrikas Reaktionen auf die mediale Inszenierung der 800-Meter-Läuferin Caster Semenya
Article Queer Times Indeed? Südafrikas Reaktionen auf die mediale Inszenierung der 800-Meter-Läuferin Caster Semenya was published on May 1, 2012 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 30, issue 1)
Some Reflections on Postcolonial Homophobia, Local Interventions, and LGBTI Solidarity Online: The Politics of Global Petitions
In the last two decades we have witnessed an increase in online petitions and campaigns emerging from Europe and North America against homophobia in various African countries, creating a particular form of visibility with some remarkable global success. Based on these online petitions and postings as well as the responses of African activists, this article reflects on the politics of this global queer solidarity. By suggesting a restrategizing of…
Alienation and Queer Discontent
Lift Off… an Introduction
Authors
We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions
Future Bodies: A Brief Overview
If you ask ChatGPT in summer 2024 about "future bodies", it will tell you that it is a concept that explores the potential evolution, enhancement, and transformation of the human body through technology, science, and cultural shifts.Future bodies are always simultaneously the product of scientific and technological possibilities and fictional imaginings or speculations.Science and practices of 'fictioning' are encountered in an interand transdisc…
Geteilte Körperlichkeit und verteilte Körperlichkeit: Ein Gespräch mit Christopher Coenen
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)