Monographs

• Through the flower. Gender narratives in museum representations of nature. New local history museums. Waxmann 2017
• Museum & Gender. A guide. New local history museums, Volume 2, Münster 2016
• The reproduction of gender relations. The metaphorical field of parthenogenesis in evolutionary biology. talheimer 2002

Editorship

• Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences - Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006 (together with Sigrid Schmitz)
• changing tides. Women in the natural and technical sciences. 31st Congress at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen. Oldenburg 2006 (together with Yasmin Khalil, Vera Lukies, Marion Sadaghiani, Mirjam Wiemeler).
• Junior professorships in science. Development, status and perspectives of research by a new generation of university teachers. Oldenburg 2005 (together with Dirk Lange)
• Homosexual by birth? Biological theories about gays and lesbians. Göttingen 2005 (together with Volker Weiss)

Essays

• Naturing Gender and Gendering Nature in Museums. In: Wera Grahn & Ross Wilson (eds.): Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics. Key Issues in Cultural Heritage. Routledge (in print)
• Nature Conservation in New Heritage Museums: An Ambivalent Multi-Talent. In: Karen Ellwanger, Sebastian Bollmann, Dennis Herrmann (eds.): Neue Heimatmuseen und Wissensproduktion. Waxmann (forthcoming)
• Gender, biology and knowledge production. A prelude for students of technology and engineering. In: Corinna Bath, Göde Both, Petra Lucht, Bärbel Mauss, Kerstin Palm (eds.): rebootING. Innovative gender teaching in the engineering sciences. Lit-Verlag (forthcoming)
• Museum & Gender: Guiding questions for gender-appropriate museums. In: Daniela Döring, Hanna Fitsch: Techno|logies of gender? Strategies for a gender-equitable museum practice, Berlin 2016
• Gender and biology. From critical analysis to reflexive intervention. In: Barbara Rendtorff, Birgit Riegraf, Claudia Mahs, Minika Schröttle (eds.): Cognition, Knowledge, Intervention. Perspectives from gender studies. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, 2015, 37-52 (together with Sigrid Schmitz)
• Beastly bourgeois. Musealisation of nature and gender in regional museums. In: FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Re-Visionen des Museums. Practices of visualisation in the field of the political, no. 58 (2015), 76-88
• Sexing the Rotifer: Reading Nonhuman Animal's Sex and Reproduction in 19th-Century Biology. In: Society & Animals 2011, 305-315
• What made those Penguins Gay? Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Zoo. In: Jill A. Fisher (ed.): Gendering Difference. Studies in Contemporary Science and Medicine. New Brunswick New Jersey London 2011, 126-144 (together with Bonnie Spanier)
• Animal Human Genders. Forming genders with animals. In: Andrea Qualbrink, Mariele Wischer (eds.): Geschlechter Bilden, 50-61, Gütersloh 2011
• The un/nature of gender: John D. Pattillo-Hess & Mario R. Smole (eds.): Frauen und Männer - Die fiktive Doppelmasse? Vienna 2010
• Considering Gay Penguins: Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Zoo. In: Waltraud Ernst (ed.): Ethics - Gender - Medicine. Body histories in political reflection. Berlin 2010, 187-205 (together with Bonnie Spanier)
• Gender and Biology: Analyses of Knowledge Production and Theory Development in Zoology. In: Helene Götschel & Doris Niemeyer (eds.): Gender in Natural Sciences in Research and Teaching. Mössingen-Talheim 2009, 35-48
• Heteronormativity in zoology. In: Bettina Fritzsche, Kristina Hackmann, Ulrike Hänsch, Jutta Hartmann, Christian Klesse & Peter Wagenknecht (eds.): Heteronormativity. Empirical studies on heterosexuality as a social power relationship. Wiesbaden 2007, 79-93
• Queering Biology. In: Bärbel Mauss & Barbara Petersen (eds.): Das Geschlecht der Bio-logie. Mössingen-Talheim 2006, 31-60
• Subject-specific teaching content from women's and gender studies. Suggestions for biology. In: Ruth Becker, Bettina Jansen-Schulz, Beate Kortendiek, Gudrun Schäfer: Gender-Aspekte bei der Einführung und Akkreditation gestufter Studiengänge - eine Handreichung. Studies Network Women's Studies NRW No. 7, Dortmund 2006, 107-110
• Gender studies and natural sciences. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and Natural Sciences - Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 7-32 (together with Sigrid Schmitz)
• Amazons, maidens and racing lizards. In: Insights. Research Magazine of the University of Oldenburg, No. 43: Oldenburg Gender Research, 2006, 16-17
• Beastly human. An un/loved dualism and its effects. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences - Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 347-362 (together with Sigrid Schmitz and Robin Bauer)
• Amazons, virgin procreation, pseudo males and a feminist paradise. Metaphors in evolutionary-biological theories of reproduction. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences - Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 75-94
• Everything so beautifully colourful. Gender, sexuality and reproduction in the animal kingdom. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences - Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 57-74
• When I take my hormones, I become an animal. On the history of sex hormones. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences - Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 235-246
• De/Construction of gender and sexuality. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Geschlechterforschung und Naturwissenschaften - Einführung in ein komplexes Wechselspiel. Wiesbaden 2006, 281-296
• The Construction of Sexual Dimorphism and Heterosexuality in the Animal Kingdom. In: Sharon Bird & Jill M. Bystydzienski (Eds): Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics. Bloomington Indianapolis 2006, 179-196
• The sexual behaviour of animals as a basis for legitimising human sexuality. In: Smilla Ebeling & Volker Weiss (eds.): Homosexual by birth? Biological theories about gays and lesbians. Göttingen 2005, 70-80
• Virgin procreation in the animal kingdom or the negation of unisexual forms of reproduction. In: Maren Bidwell-Steiner, Karin S. Wozonig (eds.): Gender & Generation. Innsbruck 2005, 84-99
• Modularisation and transitions to the BA/MA course structure. Current demands on women's and gender studies. In: Interdisziplinäre Gender Studies - Studiengänge und Schwerpunkte im deutschsprachigen Raum. 2004, 157-161 (together with Karin Flaake, Heike Fleßner)
• Gender studies in the natural sciences. In: Swiss Medical Journal. 2004; 85: No. 25
• The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose. In: Documentation 29th Congress of Women in Science and Technology. Berlin 2004, 230-237 (together with Robin Bauer)
• Women's and gender studies in times of modularisation and the transition to BA/MA study structures using the example of gender studies at the University of Oldenburg. In: femina politica. 13. vol. 1/2004, 132-135 (together with Karin Flaake and Heike Fleßner)
• Gender binarity and sexual reproduction in zoology. In: Freiburg Women's Studies. Issue 14, Freiburg 2004, 183-203
• Mathematics of Life - Constitution of a New Concept of Life through Artificial Life Research. In: D. Polani, J. Kim, T. Martinez (eds.) "Fifth German Workshop on Artificial Life. Abstracting and Synthesising the Principles of Living Systems", Lübeck 2002, 99-106 (together with Jutta Weber)
• From woman to woman, feminism for little boys or queer. How can gender be taught in the natural and technical sciences? In: Documentation of the 27th Congress of Women in Science and Technology. Berlin 2002 (together with Corinna Bath)
• Feminist Science Studies at German Universities - a First Account. In: Journal of Inter-national Women's Studies, Special Issue: The Status of Women's Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 129-142 (online journal, together with Helene Götschel)
• Metaphors in biology. In: Heike Thulmann (ed.): Naturwissenschaften und Naturwissenschaftskritik aus feministischer Sicht. Documentation of the Interdisciplinary Women's Research Day at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 2000, 45-59
• Feminist science criticism - women's and gender studies in the teaching of mathematics and the natural sciences. Field report on funded courses in the departments of mathematics, physics, biology and chemistry at the University of Hamburg from the summer semester '97 to the winter semester 98/ 99. A study commissioned by the inter-university Joint Commission and Coordination Centre for Women's Studies and Women's Research at the Universities of Hamburg. Hamburg 2000 (together with Helene Götschel)
• The gonocaval twitching of the female flag bearers - From the everyday life of a biology student. In: Barbara Petersen, Bärbel Mauß (eds.): Feministische Naturwissenschaftsforschung - Science & Fiction, NUT e.V. Schriftenreihe, Vol. 5, Mössingen-Talheim 1998, 33-43
• Dr Interdis. In: Koryphäe, medium for feminist science and technology, No. 21, April 1997, 15-17
• Presentation of the interdisciplinary "Arbeitskreis Feministische Naturwissenschaftsforschung- und Kritik". In: Documentation 23rd Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Darmstadt 1997, 397-399 (together with Agnes Sandner)

REPORTS

• Science (science) policy at the boundaries of heteronormative bisexuality. A conference report. Journal of Sexuality Studies 2016; 29(01): 42-47, DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-102712 (with Katharina Emilia Cremer and Anthony Clair Wagner)

REVIEWS

• Gender History and General History: Challenges and Perspectives. "Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft", vol. 5, ed. by Hans Medick and Anne-Charlott Trepp, Göttingen, Wallstein 1998. Review by Christina Brandt, Smilla Ebeling, Sabine Höhler, Iris Hübsch, Michael Hultsch, Bärbel Mauß and Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt in mailing list "Medizingeschichte", 1999

Articles in other public media

• Susemichel, Lea: Enigmatic rotifers. Interview with Kirsten Smilla Ebeling. In: an.schläge 4/09, p.19