Dr. Cyd Sturgess

Genderstudies
Universitair docent
Media en Performance Studies
c.sturgess@uu.nl

Monograph

Different from the Others: Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire in Amsterdam and Berlin 1918-1939. (Due for publication Dec 2022)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

‘Double Dutch: A Post-Jungian Rereading of Harry Mulisch’s Twee Vrouwen (1975)’ in Dutch Crossing, 41.3 (2017), pp 275-286

‘Anders dan de anderen’: Articulating Female Homosexual Desire in Queer Dutch Narratives (1930-1939), Internationale Neerlandistiek, 53.3 (2015), pp. 193-212

‘Subtle Shifts, Sapphic Silences: Queer Approaches to Female Same-Sex Desire in the Netherlands (1914-1940)’, Journal of Dutch Literature 6 (2015), pp. 1-16

‘“All for One and One for All”? Die Freundin in the Context of Weimar Germany’s Divided Lesbian Subculture’, Track Changes, 7 (2014), pp. 95-116

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

‘[Die] zarte Haut einer schoenen Frau’: Fashioning Femininities in Weimar Germany’s Lesbian Periodicals’ in Edinburgh German Yearbook: Queering German Culture, Camden House, 2018 pp. 57-83

‘Constructing the Boundaries of Desire: Theories of Sexual Inversion and Sapphic Self-Fashioning in Amsterdam (1930-1939)’ in Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900, Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 235-259

Book Reviews
‘A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers. Jen Jack Gieseking. New York: NYU Press, 2020’, Historical Geography: An Annual Review of Research, Commentary, andReviews, Forthcoming.

‘Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex, Robin Deam Tobin (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Modern Language Review, 2018.

Most Recent Blog
‘Visbility Still Matters: Trans Rights in the Low Countries’, Ons Erfdeel (March 2021)

Encyclopedia Entry
‘Female Masculinity’ Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. 2017.