Sexuality and Agency -- Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neo-colonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water -- Normalizing Heterosexuality in the 1996 House of Commons Debate on Bill C-33 -- Lesbian Representation and the Limits of "Visibility" -- The Lesbian Body - a Monstrous or a Transcendental Signifier? Lesbian Representation and Cultural Construction -- Pornotopic Techniques of the Observer - The Origins of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet and the Pleasure of Scopic Penetration -- Body Languages - Body Signs -- Body - Sign - Gender. "Representation": Between Culture, Body and Perception -- Will White Feminism Surrender the Default Position? Gender Studies and Whiteness -- Engendered Bodies: Metaphors in Feminism -- The Absent Presence: Reflections on the Discursive Practice of Veiling -- The New Age of Anxiety -- Leaving Mother Behind: On the Production and Replacement of the Maternal in Space -- Living Images of "Human-Beasts": Reflections on the "Wild" in the Media -- The Body and the (New) Media -- Dissident Bodies: Freeing the Gaze from Norms, On a Cinematic and Visual Arts Practice -- The Medium Is Not the Only Message -- The Construction of Gender in Photographs of Children -- Hollywood Reproductions: Mothers, Clones, and Aliens -- Nation and Body -- Body Language: The Somatics of Nationalism in Tamil India -- Gender Difference and the Visual Representation of the Political -- Social Constructions of Motherhood in Germany -- Authors.