Visual Genders, Visual Histories: A Special Issue of Gender & History

Part I: Documenting.

Does Gender Matter? Filmic Representations of the Liberated Nazi Concentration Camps, 1945-46: Ulrike Weckel.

Images of Poor but Virtuous Women: Morality, Gender and Power in Argentina between the World Wars: María Fernanda Lorenzo, Ana Lía Rey and Cecilia Tossounian.

The General View and Beyond: From Slum-yard to Township in Ellen Hellman’s Photographs of Women and the African Familial: Marijke Du Toit.

Racialising the Virile Body: Eadweard Muybridge’s Locomotion Studies, 1883-1887: Elspeth H. Brown.

Part II: Trafficking.

History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the ‘Tondues’: Visuality of the Vichy Past through the Silent Image of Women: Alison M. Moore.

A Glance into the Camera: Gendered Visions of Historical Photographs in Kaoko (North-Western Namibia): Lorena Rizzo.

Decoration and Desire in the Watts Chapel, Compton: Narratives of Gender, Class and Colonialism: Elaine Cheasley Paterson.

Part III: Experimenting.

Faces and Bodies: Gendered Modernity and Fashion Photography in Tehran: Alec H. Balasescu.

Arne Svenson’s Queer Taxonomy: Elizabeth Birdsall.

The Temperance Temple and Architectural Representation in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago: Paula Young Lee.

There’s Something about Mary Wigman: The Woman Dancer as Subject in German Expressionist Art: Susan Laikin Funkenstein.

Notes on Contributors