Deirdre C. Byrne, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of English at the University of South Africa. She has written on Ursula Le Guin’s poetry, co-edited Fluid Gender, Fluid Love (Brill, 2018), and is the editor of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.Marianne Schleicher, Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has authored Intertextuality in the Tales of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Brill, 2007) and has written extensively on gender and the function of scripture in Jewish religion.

• List of IllustrationNotes of ContributorsIntroductionDeirdre C. Byrne and Marianne SchleicherPart 1: Reflections on theory1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist ApproachesMarianne Schleicher2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual PerformanceLouis van den Hengel3 “Yet the old woman will not sleep”: reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin’s WritingDeirdre C. ByrnePart 2: Materiality in creative texts4 Butch: a Cartography of DesireKelly Gardiner5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and BengalAmrita Chakraborty6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New EveWernmei Yong AdePart 3: Fluid identities in heterotopic spaces7 Ferzan Özpetek’s Cinema: a Post-Constructionist Approach to Gender and LoveDikmen Yakalı-Çamoğlu8 Love and Monsters: gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem LiteratureAlana Vincent9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in Mainstream Nightlife in DenmarkMie Birk JensenPart 4: Social relata10 Love in Different Climates: love, Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and BritainStevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers’ PartyMustafa Kemal Topal12 Bound and Entangled: masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the BDSM ClubSerena PetrellaPart 5: Afterword13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly DelightsSara DavidmannIndex

Deirdre C. Byrne, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of English at the University of South Africa. She has written on Ursula Le Guin’s poetry, co-edited Fluid Gender, Fluid Love (Brill, 2018), and is the editor of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.Marianne Schleicher, Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has authored Intertextuality in the Tales of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Brill, 2007) and has written extensively on gender and the function of scripture in Jewish religion.

• List of IllustrationNotes of ContributorsIntroductionDeirdre C. Byrne and Marianne SchleicherPart 1: Reflections on theory1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist ApproachesMarianne Schleicher2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual PerformanceLouis van den Hengel3 “Yet the old woman will not sleep”: reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin’s WritingDeirdre C. ByrnePart 2: Materiality in creative texts4 Butch: a Cartography of DesireKelly Gardiner5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and BengalAmrita Chakraborty6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New EveWernmei Yong AdePart 3: Fluid identities in heterotopic spaces7 Ferzan Özpetek’s Cinema: a Post-Constructionist Approach to Gender and LoveDikmen Yakalı-Çamoğlu8 Love and Monsters: gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem LiteratureAlana Vincent9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in Mainstream Nightlife in DenmarkMie Birk JensenPart 4: Social relata10 Love in Different Climates: love, Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and BritainStevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers’ PartyMustafa Kemal Topal12 Bound and Entangled: masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the BDSM ClubSerena PetrellaPart 5: Afterword13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly DelightsSara DavidmannIndex

Deirdre C. Byrne, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of English at the University of South Africa. She has written on Ursula Le Guin’s poetry, co-edited Fluid Gender, Fluid Love (Brill, 2018), and is the editor of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.Marianne Schleicher, Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has authored Intertextuality in the Tales of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Brill, 2007) and has written extensively on gender and the function of scripture in Jewish religion.

• List of IllustrationNotes of ContributorsIntroductionDeirdre C. Byrne and Marianne SchleicherPart 1: Reflections on theory1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist ApproachesMarianne Schleicher2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual PerformanceLouis van den Hengel3 “Yet the old woman will not sleep”: reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin’s WritingDeirdre C. ByrnePart 2: Materiality in creative texts4 Butch: a Cartography of DesireKelly Gardiner5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and BengalAmrita Chakraborty6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New EveWernmei Yong AdePart 3: Fluid identities in heterotopic spaces7 Ferzan Özpetek’s Cinema: a Post-Constructionist Approach to Gender and LoveDikmen Yakalı-Çamoğlu8 Love and Monsters: gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem LiteratureAlana Vincent9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in Mainstream Nightlife in DenmarkMie Birk JensenPart 4: Social relata10 Love in Different Climates: love, Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and BritainStevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers’ PartyMustafa Kemal Topal12 Bound and Entangled: masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the BDSM ClubSerena PetrellaPart 5: Afterword13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly DelightsSara DavidmannIndex