From a historical perspective, the full academic establishment of Women s and Gender Studies is a radical and far-reaching innovation. Decisive impulses have come from the United States, the European unification and globalization. European Women s and Gender Studies are therefore intimately linked to the English language and Anglophone cultures, as the near untranslatability of -gender- shows. In this volume 25 experts present surveys for their countries with a historical and European contextualization and offer fundamental insights not only for English Studies but also various other...