In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.

While the end of the US's civil war marked a boom in US tourism in Europe, Austria's own civil war in 1934 both curtailed American tourism in Austria and marked a small, but important, wave of Austrian emigration to the US. The essays in this volume explore the ways Austrian-born immigrants in those years defined their own identities as American citizens; how they interpreted, performed, and profited from "American" modernity at home; and how their work - as immigrating authors, film makers, and musicians - impacted mainstream culture in the US, illuminating often overlooked connections, not only between Austria and America, but also between Austrians and Americans. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 14)

Shrill, beefy, drilled - hard bodies populate pop culture and science books alike. The essays in this volume trace the flexing muscles of the hard body in various disciplines and spatio-temporal contexts: from the medieval wooer in tights to the soldier in a bombsuit, from sculpted marble bodies to the treacherous images of German Terrormadels, from 19th century self-improvement manuals to 21st century technoporn, from Ballets Russes to Charlie's Angels, from Afro-Brazilian male sleeping beauties to the black female war machine. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 11)

Can the subaltern speak?" fragt Gayatri Spivak in einem der Schlusseltexte postkolonialer Theorie. Ihre Antwort darauf ist wenig optimistisch: Die fremde" Frau bleibe immer lediglich Reprasentierte und besitze als diese Andere" keine Stimme. Die AutorInnen untersuchen das Phanomen der Migration in seinen geschlechtsspezifischen Zusammenhangen aus interdisziplinarer Perspektive. Sie diskutieren die vielfaltigen Verschrankungen von kultureller Differenz und Geschlechterdifferenz. Dabei werden Fragen der Intersektionalitat ebenso beleuchtet wie die Entwicklung von multi- uber inter- zu transkulturellen Perspektiven und die vielfaltigen Zusammenhange von Mobilitat und Gender."