VOLUME 1(2) • 2011
BOOK REVIEW
Susan Mooney, The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality.Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century NovelThe Ohio State University Press, 2008, 321 p. ISBN 978-0-8142-1082-6, et CD-ROM ISBN 978-0-8142-9161-0 Dimensions: 23x15 (Hardcover) EFSTRATIA OKTAPODAefstratia.oktapoda@paris-sorbonne.frUnivers..
The Story So Far: Towards A (Frin)Gender Perspective Within the NEWW COST Action
ABSTRACT. During a Training School in The Hague in May 2011, one key issue during the debates was that the NEWW COST Action is not meant to be a project, but rather a “collection” of research projects encouraging collaborative research between different individuals/institutions/geographical areas. B..
Using the Internet for Learning: Fact or Fiction
ABSTRACT. With the emergence of Web 2.0, women had the opportunity to communicate, share information, publish their work and become more active on the Internet as being protected by the anonymity it provides. Statistics have revealed that the use of computers and the Internet has increased in Romani..
Study on Gender Friendliness of Tutorial Sessions of the Open School Programs of the Bangladesh Open University
ABSTRACT. The Open School of Bangladesh Open University (BOU) develops its courses of studies keeping in policy in line to gender friendliness in the curriculum and syllabuses, self-learning materials (SLMs) and tutorial support services. The programs are run through open and distance learning, whic..
Human Rights Education for Women’s Rights Protection: What Role for the Nigerian University?
ABSTRACT. Popular commentary on, and policy response to, sexual harassment in Nigerian universities is largely shaped and framed by the so-called ‘natural/biological’ theory which adopts a uni-directional interpretation of the phenomenon, portraying the male lecturers as the aggressive predators and..
Challenging the Literary Scene: Late Nineteenth-Century Romanian Women Writers
ABSTRACT. The tradition of the feminine writing in the Romanian Principalities was born in circumstances determined by the social change that took place during the century, which exerted a lot of influence on a woman’s daily life. Influenced by the women’s emancipation trend, which had a large reson..
Hide and Seek: On Trail of Women Writers
ABSTRACT. The Turkish literature canon routinely excludes the work of the many women writers who have contributed vivid insights into the evolving Turkish society, within the Ottoman Empire and as a republic. The Women Writers of Turkey Project has addressed this, cataloguing the works and lives of ..
Émancipation sexuelle et obstacles paratextuels : Le cas d’André Gide
ABSTRACT. In his 1987 book devoted to the paratext in literature, Gérard Genette referred many times to Gide’s texts. Gide’s work presents indeed a rich and fascinating reservoir for paratext studies. Curiously, Genette ignores Gide’s early texts in favor of those published later in Gide’s career. H..
“Reason Held Passion by the Throat”
ABSTRACT. My paper will compare Charlotte Bronte’s treatment of female identity in Jane Eyre – a work often credited with being the first to externalize the female schizophrenic split so pervasive in the Victorian era – with Darren Aronofsky’s portrayal of the identity drawn in the Black Swan. The l..
A Gentleman’s Agreement: Female Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Male-Authored Fiction
ABSTRACT. The structures of desire in male-authored Western novels from Fielding’s Tom Jones to James Joyce’s Ulysses and beyond share many aspects of the fantasy of illustrious paternity set forth by Freud and elaborated by his protégé, Otto Rank, as The Hero’s Journey, a paradigm recurring in many..
Updating Home and Self in Finnish Home Makeovers
ABSTRACT. The home makeover shows on television construct the idea that by redecorating one’s home and reflecting on it, one engages in the construction of the ideal self. This article focuses on the Finnish home makeover shows Inno and Kodin kääntöpiiri and their representations of gendered selves...
Race, Class, Gender? Intersectionality Troubles
ABSTRACT. Intersectionality is a key concept in recent Gender Studies. There is a lot research on the question of how to “intersect” different dimensions of identities – such as ‘race, class, and gender.’ This triad of identity (model of “triple oppression”) became a buzzword and has been strongly c..