The project focuses on Western European magazines that have emerged from the Second Wave feminist movements since the 1970s. Information on the various magazines will be collected in a database. A website with expert contributions will combine national overviews with transnational thematic perspectives. (Kassandra Hammel & Sonja Levsen)

The medical knowledge and techniques necessary to perform gender affirmative care were produced during the long 19^th century in different contexts and were not intended to serve for this purpose. This study searches for actors who reinterpreted this body of knowledge and advanced it to today’s standards. It also traces how the bodies of transgender* people became in this process an arena for negotiating the line between concepts of heterosexual feminity and masculinity as well as their subversions. (Katharina Seibert)

This research project examines the role of British and West German women's movements in negotiating new concepts of sexuality, the body and health between 1968 and 1989. By focusing on the mechanisms of knowledge production and transformation, the project breaks with the master narrative of the 'sexual revolution' and instead highlights the different interpretative struggles around sexuality and the body within the women's movements. (Kassandra Hammel)