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Book Reviews: Donna Haraway: Manifestly Haraway. (Reviewed by Lis Højgaard) Ayo Wahlberg & Tine Gammeltoft (eds.): Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century. (Reviewed by Lisbeth B. Knudsen) Clarke, Adele, Friese, Carrie and Washburn, Rachel S. (2018). Situational Analysis. Grounded Theory after the Interpretive Turn, 2nd Edition. (Reviewed by Stine Willum Adrian) Cordelia Fine: Testosterone Rex – Unmaking the myths of our gendered minds. (Reviewed by Lea Skewes) PhD notice: Michala Hvidt Breengaard: HOW TO MOTHER? Practices of infant feeding and the formation of maternal subjectivity among middle-class mothers in Beijing

The article explores Karen Barad’s theoretical framework, agential realism, to seek out theoretical perspectives that can be used as analytical approaches to empirical data. By selecting two pieces of data we aim to illustrate the analytical possibilities offered by this approach. The first piece of data stipulates an opening of ‘WHAT OF’ of the activities in a world of computer games: WHAT OF the myriad of real and virtual voices, sentiments and actions and their interconnections and meaning for gendered subjectification? The second piece is guided by ‘WHAT IF’ thinking: WHAT would we be able to see IF we brought insights from quantum physics, i.e. spacetimemattering, to the conception of thinking subjects. The examples show that agential realism offers a theoretical framework that allows access to a much wider set of enacting forces to be considered in the analysis. By reading agential realism diffractively with two different empirical examples and two different research ambitions, our attention is drawn to specificities of what the engagements may enact consequently.

The article analyses sexulaized media's message to boys to take up heterosexual desire as an active desiring position. This desire is constituted by the media as a possibility to dominate through its impersonal and sometimes subject-destructive character. The boys take up these aspects of the desire position in different ways, but common to them is the way they usually work though humour as a subjectivitytrack. The article suggests that the masculine desiring position entails certain tabooed vulnerability potentials for the boys. The way the masculine desire is constituted with strong dominating/subjectifing aspects opens up a variety of vulnerable posibilties for boys. Among which the article focuses on the policing to take on pornographic desire, the management of explicit sexuality, the sexual drive as compulsive and the position as mastering the sexual experience, as well as selfloathing among those boys who are subjectified as open to feminine subjects' experiences. Furthermore, the construction of pornographic desire underlying much of the sexualized media, entices boys to split up girls into categories of de-humanised screaming pornographic women and the emotionally relating girls, the boys know from their everyday lives.

Hunting through poststructuralist feminist theories of the body, this article presents building blocks for a theory of bodily subjectification processes which works against generalising ideas and which prove useful for complex analytical investigations of how we become subjects in a bodily sense. The building blocks presented includes 1) Viewing the body as in a constant process of becoming). 2) Conceptualizing the body in intra-activity with other elements – bodily becoming is dependent upon other bodies and artefacts with which the body infolds. 3) Setting the body between sedimentation and change. These ideas are drawn from Judith Butler’s concept of performativity, Karen Barad’s theorization of materialization processes and Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory. The tools´ workings are demonstrated on an empirical example of bodily infoldings between 16 yearold Mette and a sexualized commercial.

Gritt Ulldall-Jessen: "Pornografi som en mulig udvidelse af kvindens råderum", Sarah Højgaard Cawood: "På sporet af en feministisk seksualitetsvision", Hilda Rømer Christensen: "Om mainstreaming, magt og kønsforskningens kritiske potentialer".

I dette nummer anmeldes følgende: "Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie 4, På jorden.", "Til døden os skiller" (Jens Andersen) og "Tove Ditlevsen. Myte og liv" (Karen Syberg), "Feberens ville rose. Tre omsorgssystemer i tuberkulosearbeidet 1900-1960" (Ida Blom), "Det kønnede samfund" (red.: Ann-Dorthe Christensen, Anne-Birthe Ravn og Iris Rittenhofer), "En køn historie om elektronikarbejde. Kønsarbejdsdeling og ligestilling på det ikke-faglærte industrielle arbejdsmarked 1945-1993" (Vibeke Kold), "Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes - Shifting Policy Logics" (Jane Lewis) og "Enemorfamilien" (Maren Bak), "Accepting Population Control-Urban Chinese Women and the One-Child Family Policy" (Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz), "Kvinden er død. Hurra?" (Bente Schwartz), "Rødstrømperne 1-2. Den danske Rødstrømpebevægelses udvikling, nytænkning og gennemslag 1970-1985" (Drude Dahlerup), "Uddannelsesplanlægning som ligestillingsredskab" (Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsens arbejdsnotat nr. 29 1998, 87 s.) og "Det hele liv" (Kvindeligt Arbejderforbunds uddannelsesindsats 1985-1997, 159 s.)