Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION BRIGETTA M. ABEL, NICOLE GREWLING, BETH ANN MUELLNER, AND HELGA THORSON

Section 1 Feminist Roots/Routes

CHAPTER 1 Feminist Choices: Contemplating the Intricacies of Feminist Spaces

HELGA THORSON

CHAPTER 2 Strange Bedfellows: A Married Lesbian’s Feminist-Queer Critique of the Homo-Ehe Debates in Germany

ALISON GUENTHER-PAL

CHAPTER 3 Unboxed: On Media, Memory, and the Material Archive

ANGELICA FENNER

Section 2 Feminist Scholarship Revisited

CHAPTER 4 On This Occasion, Seven Letters

MARTINA S. ANDERSON

CHAPTER 5 Ein (unvollständiger) Reisebericht

MONIKA MOYRER

CHAPTER 6 Mindfulness in Academia: On the Fine Art of Intellectual Labor

BETH ANN MUELLNER

Section 3 Feminist Collaboration in Action

CHAPTER 7 Feminist Collaboration: A Conversation

BRIGETTA M. ABEL

CHAPTER 8 Autogynographically Speaking: A Dialogue on Feminist Friendship

ELIZABETH MITTMAN AND LISA ROETZEL

CHAPTER 9 Writing that Matters: An E-pistolary Dialogue

ANGELIKA BAMMER AND RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES

Section 4 Feminist Mentoring/Mentoring Feminists

CHAPTER 10 Feminist Scholar/Activist, Teacher, Mentor, Colleague, Friend

RICK MCCORMICK

CHAPTER 11 Tea with R.E.

SHAWN C. JARVIS

CHAPTER 12 A Personal and Intellectual Feminist Journey over Four Decades with Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

SARAH STEPHENS

APPENDICES LIST OF SELECTED BOOK PUBLICATIONS

BY RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES

LIST OF SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

BY RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES

LIST OF DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED

BY RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES

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