VOLUME 2(1) • 2012
Book reviews
Book reviews, pp. 152–170Entretien avec Ezza Agha Malak, pp. 171–179Conference report, pp. 180–184 {downloads} {slider Author's contact:} JRGS {/sliders}..
(In)Visible European Connecting Channels: Mapping Nineteenth Century Women’s Writings
ABSTRACT. A research of women’s situation in 19th century European societies starts with the observation that the political and historical events, starting with the French Revolution, opened a new way for important social, economic and cultural changes concerning the impact of women’s presence on th..
Confucius and Feminism
ABSTRACT: The relationship between Confucianism and Feminism should be reconsidered in the light of the entire socio-political context of the time. At the beginning, the Masters of Confucianism did not explicitly put women in a subordinate position, and in a patriarchal and highly hierarchical socie..
Career Choices and Gender: Female Cadets at the Hellenic Military Academy
ABSTRACT. The following essay discusses the findings of a small, unofficial survey concerning career choices and gender. Conducted at the Hellenic Military Academy in 2010, it explores the main reasons that account for the increasing popularity of the Academies of the Armed Forces among high-school ..
Gender Pride as Tragic Flaw in Sophocles’ Antigone
ABSTRACT. This paper reexamines the source of dramatic conflict between Antigone and Creon in Sophocles’ time-honored classic, Antigone. Whereas critics are wont to interpret the play as a case of the State against the individual as inferred from certain declarations and actions of Creon, the presen..
A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Its Critique of Academic Obsessive Interests
ABSTRACT. The present paper is an attempt to explore the multiple-layered structure of A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1990).The author labels this novel as ‘romance’ and indeed it is deservedly so since the main line of action in the book centers on an ardent love affair going on between two academics an..
Elfriede Jelinek: Feminism, Politics and a Gender and Queer Theoretical Perspectivation of Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen & Ulrike Maria Stuart
ABSTRACT. Our article will proceed in a twofold way: on the one hand we attempt to introduce the audience more in depth to Elfriede Jelinek’s work, extrapolating mainly her style of writing on the basis of the theoretical reflections that underlies her textual production; on the other hand we want t..
Human Trafficking in a Globalized World: Gender Aspects of the Issue and Anti-trafficking Politics
ABSTRACT. Human trafficking has become a globally prominent issue which attracts the attention of different countries worldwide because of its devastating consequences to human beings. Is human trafficking a gender issue? If yes, we need to have gender-based anti-trafficking initiatives that help el..
Trauma, virtuel et pulsions : vers un « devenir inorganique » de la mondialisation ?
ABSTRACT. This paper aims to examine the unpublished reports between the death drive, sex drive, and gender identity in the context of virtual technologies of glob- alization, from analyses of Teresa de Lauretis. In her latest book, Freud’s Drive (Original Title: Freud’s Drive. Psychoanalysis, Liter..
Ambivalence sexuelle et identité juridique à travers les âges
ABSTRACT. The consideration of bisexuation, as a biological phenomenon, was variable in law history. At first, the hermaphrodite was considered a prodigy in antiquity before to be inserted in a legal system modeled on binary classification which was strictly organized around masculinity and feminini..