Monographs

• Between the Lines: 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

Edited by

• Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences – An Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006 (with Sigrid Schmitz)
• Tide of Change. Women in the Natural and Technical Sciences. 31st Congress at Bremen University of Applied Sciences. Oldenburg 2006 (with Yasmin Khalil, Vera Lukies, Marion Sadaghiani, Mirjam Wiemeler).
• Junior Professorships in Academia. Development, Current Status and Prospects for Research by a New Generation of University Lecturers. Oldenburg 2005 (with Dirk Lange)
• Homosexual from Birth? Biological Theories about Gay Men and Lesbians. Göttingen 2005 (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 press)
• Nature Conservation in New Local History Museums: An Ambivalent All-Rounder. In: Karen Ellwanger, Sebastian Bollmann, Dennis Herrmann (eds.): New Local History Museums and Knowledge Production. Waxmann (forthcoming)
• Gender, Biology and Knowledge Production. An Introduction for Students of Technology and Engineering. In: Corinna Bath, Göde Both, Petra Lucht, Bärbel Mauss, Kerstin Palm (eds.): rebootING. Innovative Gender Teaching in Engineering. Lit-Verlag (forthcoming)
• Museums & Gender: Key Questions for Gender-Equitable Museums. In: Daniela Döring, Hanna Fitsch: Techno|logies of Gender? Strategies for 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.): Insight, Knowledge, Intervention. Gender Studies Perspectives. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, 2015, 37–52 (co-authored with Sigrid Schmitz)
• Wildly Bourgeois. The Musealisation of Nature and Gender in Regional Museums. In: FKW // Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Re-Visions of the Museum. Practices of Visualisation in the Political Field, No. 58 (2015), 76–88
• Sexing the Rotifer: Reading Non-human Animals’ 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 (co-authored with Bonnie Spanier)
• Animal-Human Genders. Constructing Genders with Animals. In: Andrea Qualbrink, Mariele Wischer (eds.): Constructing Genders, 50–61, Gütersloh 2011
• The (Un)Nature of Gender: John D. Pattillo-Hess & Mario R. Smole (eds.): Women and Men – The Fictional Double? Vienna 2010
• Considering Gay Penguins: Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Zoo. In: Waltraud Ernst (ed.): Ethics – Gender – Medicine. Bodily Narratives in Political Reflection. Berlin 2010, 187–205 (with Bonnie Spanier)
• Gender and Biology: Analyses of Knowledge Production and Theoretical Development in Zoology. In: Helene Götschel & Doris Niemeyer (eds.): Gender in the 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.): The Gender of Biology. 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 Aspects in the Introduction and Accreditation of Tiered Degree Programmes – A Guide. Study Network for Women’s Studies NRW No. 7, Dortmund 2006, 107–110
• Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences – An Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 7–32 (co-authored with Sigrid Schmitz)
• Amazons, Maidens and Running Lizards. In: Einblicke. Research Magazine of the University of Oldenburg, No. 43: Oldenburg Gender Studies, 2006, 16–17
• Animal-like and Human. An Un/loved Dualism and its Effects. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences – An Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 347–362 (with Sigrid Schmitz and Robin Bauer)
• Amazons, virgin birth, 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 – An Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 75–94
• Such a colourful world. Gender, sexuality and reproduction in the animal kingdom. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences – An 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 – An Introduction to a Complex Interplay. Wiesbaden 2006, 235–246
• The (De)construction of Gender and Sexuality. In: Smilla Ebeling & Sigrid Schmitz (eds.): Gender Studies and the Natural Sciences – An Introduction to a Complex Interplay. 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
• Animal Sexual Behaviour as a Basis for Legitimising Human Sexuality. In: Smilla Ebeling & Volker Weiss (eds): Born Homosexual? Biological Theories about Gay Men and Lesbians. Göttingen 2005, 70–80
• Parthenogenesis in the animal kingdom, or the negation of single-sex forms of reproduction. In: Maren Bidwell-Steiner, Karin S. Wozonig (eds.): Gender & Generation. Innsbruck 2005, 84–99
• Modularisation and Transitions to the BA/MA Degree Structure. Current Requirements for Women’s and Gender Studies. In: Interdisciplinary Gender Studies – Degree Programmes and Specialisations in German-speaking Countries. 2004, 157–161 (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: Proceedings of the 29th Congress of Women in Science and Technology. Berlin 2004, 230–237 (with Robin Bauer)
• Women’s and Gender Studies in an Era of Modularisation and the Transition to Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree Structures: The Case of Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg. In: *femina politica*. Vol. 13, Issue 1/2004, 132–135 (with Karin Flaake and Heike Fleßner)
• Gender Binarity and Sexual Reproduction in Zoology. In: Freiburger Frauen-Studien. 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 (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: Proceedings of the 27th Congress of Women in Science and Technology. Berlin 2002 (with Corinna Bath)
• Feminist Science Studies at German Universities – a First Account. In: Journal of International Women’s Studies, Special Issue: The Status of Women’s Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 129–142 (online journal, co-authored with Helene Götschel)
• Metaphors in Biology. In: Heike Thulmann (ed.): Natural Sciences and Critique of Natural Science from a Feminist Perspective. Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Day at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 2000, 45–59
• Feminist Critique of the Natural Sciences – Women’s and Gender Studies in the Teaching of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. Experience report on funded teaching modules in the departments of Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Chemistry at the University of Hamburg from the summer semester of ’97 to the winter semester of 98/99. A study commissioned by the Inter-University Joint Commission and Coordination Office for Women’s Studies and Women’s Research at the Universities of Hamburg. Hamburg 2000 (co-authored with Helene Götschel)
• The Gonocavulum Twitching of the Flag-Bearers – From the Everyday Life of a Biology Student. In: Barbara Petersen, Bärbel Mauß (eds.): Feminist Research in the Natural Sciences – Science & Fiction, NUT e.V. Series, Volume 5, Mössingen-Talheim 1998, 33–43
• Dr. Interdis. In: Koryphäe, Journal of Feminist Science and Technology, No. 21, April 1997, 15–17
• Presentation of the interdisciplinary “Working Group on Feminist Research and Critique in the Natural Sciences”. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Darmstadt 1997, 397–399 (co-authored with Agnes Sandner)

REPORTS

• Science policy at the boundaries of heteronormative binary gender. A conference report. Journal of Sexual Research 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. “Göttingen Discussions on Historical Science”, 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 on the ‘History of Medicine’ mailing list, 1999

Contributions in other public media

• Susemichel, Lea: ‘Mysterious Rotifer Animals’. Interview with Kirsten Smilla Ebeling. In: an.schläge 4/09, p. 19