Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms: Feminist Review, Issue 56

Included in this issue: Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? --Feminist Discourses at the UN Conference at Beijingby Sally Baden and Anne-Marie Goetz;To Whom Does Ameena Belong? --Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in Contemporary Indiaby Purnima Mankekar;Pat Cadigan'sSynners: Refiguring Nature, Science, and Technologyby Laura Cherniak;"I Teach Therefore I Am:" Lesbian Studies in the Liberal Academyby Sally Munt;American Eve (poem)by Paual Burnett;Reviews; Noticeboard.

Forthcoming articles Who needs [sex] when you can have [gender]?-Feminist Discourses at the UN Conference at Beijing Sally Baden and Anne-Marie Goetz, To whom does Ameena belong? Towards a feminist analysis of childhood and nationhood in contemporary India Purneema Mankekar, Pat Cadigan's Synners : Refiguring nature, science and technology Laura Cherniack, 'I teach therefore I am':lesbian studies in the liberal academy Sally Munt, American Eve (poem) Paual Burnett