The Complexity of Bodies

By the 1980s, a field of research had developed within intersectional and interdisciplinary gender studies that addresses the complexity of concepts and images of the body. To counteract current biopolitical tendencies toward simplification and disambiguation and to reflect on the co-construction of material, biological, discursive, and technological aspects of embodiment, we welcome contributions that critically examine new interdisciplinary, intersectional, and interdiscursive strategies for producing complexity. Contributions should engage with current debates in (health) policy, aesthetics, and law on topics such as body/embodiment, gender, sexual orientation, illness, disability, and racialization.

Editors are Sigrid Nieberle and Katrin Röder. We cordially invite you to submit an abstract by 7 December 2025.