ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the significance of seriality for debates concerning gender and feminist critique. Feminist thought and critical debates on gender relations have a long history with multiple beginnings in various cultural contexts. In fact, debates about the phenomena and forms of seriality tend to inform and drive interdisciplinary endeavors with historical dimensions. For even if an authoritative conceptualization of seriality remains a work-inprogress, seriality constitutes a dominant drive within modernization, modernity, and modernisms, and may thus be approached by its multiple interrelated and interdependent cultural practices. In the process, literary and cultural studies have extended their territories far out into visual cultures while often restricting their scholarly attention to contemporary cultural practices. The persistence of gender-based violence, which includes non-sexual violence, violence against children, and homophobic hate crimes, clearly demonstrates the recursive, serial nature of feminist work and gender debates. As a consequence, one direction which gender studies has taken re-engages its strained and unresolved relation to feminist critique.
