Frontmatter and Editorial

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the frontmatter and editorial: Illuminating Gender examines the interface of gender and disease, a thematic concern that will be taken up again in Illuminating Gender II next year. Two of the contributions to our first issue consider the interaction of medical theory and German literature in the eighteenth as well as in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, while the third target essay focuses on the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome that troubles notions of normative femininity.