VOLUME 3(2) • 2013
EVERYTHING ELSE IS DRAG: LINGUISTIC DRAG AND GENDER PARODY ON RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE
ABSTRACT. The potential for parody, and the dialogue across the naturalized borders of gender identity, inherent in drag practice has been one of the keystones of academic research into both communities of drag queens and drag kings, and there are some indications that drag has begun to enter into w..
POSTPATRIARCHY
ABSTRACT. This article points out: “The combination of men and women in families is irrational.” Men and women are two different “species.” They only require sexual activities from each other, which are considered the less time-consuming activities during their lives. Sex must be treated as an enemy..
THE SERVANTS OF THE DEVIL. THE DEMONIZATION OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN THE MEDIEVAL PATRISTIC DISCOURSE
ABSTRACT. The sexuality of women has been much theorizing about the nature, characteristics and alleged deficiencies. Such theories are based on an androcentric view of sexuality in the Middle Ages revolves around two core beliefs. First, the imaginary medieval sexuality perceived as an activity lin..
L’ÉCRITURE NEE EN FRANCE POUR TRAVERSER LES FRONTIERES
ABSTRACT. This study of Née en France will focus on the role of writing in the life of a young beur woman sequestered in Algeria by her father, a frustrated immigrant unable to deal with the cultural and generational conflicts with which his daughter struggles in France. Aïcha Benaïssa’s testimony c..
GENRE INTIME ET GENRE SEXUEL DANS L’ŒUVRE GIDIENNE
ABSTRACT. In 1911 Gide dare a bet of a treaty – Corydon – which aims at fighting over a lie, in which he reassesses Pascal famous phrase: “All tastes are in nature.” A key quote within a period of time, and while Gide risks to put literary genre at service over a reflection on the sexual kind, when ..
GENDER TROUBLE IN WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
ABSTRACT. During his lifelong career, Albee has created a world inhabited by people struggling to understand and assert their identity within a social sphere of change and crisis, as his plays, being critiques of humans and their society, bring to light psychosocial, sexual, philosophical, and polit..
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CULTURE OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY’S CURRICULUM: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVE TOWARD CONCEIVING A HOLISTIC AND INCLUSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF KNOWLEDGE-FORMS THROUGH ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
ABSTRACT. This study explores the epistemological culture of the Western philosophy curriculum. Is it the case that female students are immersed in a curriculum that privileges male-centered values, despite claims to equality, equity, and justice? Herein, I focus on academic discourse in relation to..
GENDER DIFFERENTIATION IN COGNITION AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
ABSTRACT. Considerable research attention has focused on gender differences in social behaviors, biological and sociocultural processes that influence the psychology of women and men, and sex differences in consumer navigation strategies. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considera..
INTERVIEW WITH SUE THOMAS ON THE TECHNOFEMINIST APPROACH AND CORRESPONDENCE
This interview is a part of the Scientific Research Project of Atatürk University carried on by Professor Dr. Mukadder Erkan and Research Assistant Sümeyra Buran. Sümeyra Buran interviewed with Thomas for this project on the TechnoFeminist approach and Correspondence by Sue Thomas. Thomas welcomed a..
BOOK REVIEWS
Pythagorean Women: Their History and WritingsSarah B. Pomeroy (Hunter College & The Graduate School, CUNY)Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 172 pp.ISBN: 978-1-4214-0956-6 Transnational Identities of Women Writers in the Austro-Hungarian EmpireRamona Mihaila (ed.) (Spiru Haret..