IMAGINED REBELLION: WHAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE WINTER'S TALE

Author(s): Claire T. Guéron / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale features a pattern of violent rebellion that only just fails to happen. Such moments of near-rebellion, best interpreted through the play’s master trope of the moving statue, constitute an exploration of the causes of political rebellion and how best to avert it. Thanks to the close integration of its romance aesthetics and political realism, The Winter’s Tale can be read as a “Mirror for Kings”.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER-SPECIFIC AUDIENCES IN THE WORKS OF EARLY 17TH CENTURY WRITERS

Author(s): Reghina Dascăl / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

My article centres on the intricate intertwining of gender, sexuality, identity and writing in the first quarter of the 17th century, dealing with Aemilia Lanyer’s most famous work Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) a cornerstone in the construction of female readership, offering at the same time an example of a collaborative rather than competitive model for literary creation, advancing the plea for a female genealogy.

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA’S YERMA (1937) AND RUTH CARTER’S A YEARNING (1999): THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

Author(s): Hildegard Klein / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

My paper examines Lorca’s Yerma and Carter’s A Yearning and the transposition of the work from a regressive agricultural Andalusia into a traditional urban British-Asian Punjabi community. Though written in different periods and cultures, the two plays illustrate that discrimination and domestic entrapment of women have prevailed. The heroines’ inability to fulfil their socially required roles, to procreate, condemns them to seclusion and desperation with a violent outcome.

GENDER AND POLITICS AS THE DOMINANT FACTORS IN THE PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Aleksandra Izgarjan,Slobodanka Markov,Diana Prodanovič-Stankič / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

The paper presents an analysis of research focusing on the attitudes of students at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia toward multiculturalism and on the intersection of the gender aspect and students’ political affiliation. The results show that both gender and political affiliation shape student attitudes since more female students and those who identify themselves with the democratic block support multicultural education in comparison with those who identify themselves with the nationalist block.

FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE

Author(s): Remina Sima / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

The paper deals with the concept of family seen both as a system and as a unit. It shows how family functions and the structure of family. The paper also draws attention to the separation between home and work which makes substantial differences to the daily lives of both men and women. This means that there is a clear distinction between working time and leisure time, and there is a much clearer distinction between public and private life.

BREAKING STEREOTYPES: MALE VIEW OF THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE IN RAJA RAO’S THE CAT AND SHAKESPEARE

Author(s): Ludmila Volná / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

In Raja Rao’s novel The Cat and Shakespeare the existential quest of Pai, an Indian male, can be studied as mirroring that of Hamlet. However, Pai's progress consists in his resistance to the stereotyped power-imbued values of both ‘Shakespeare’s’ and his own culture, i. e. those related to colonization, radical authoritarian nationalism, caste, species and gender, the last-mentioned being the focus of this paper.

ANTI-ANTIFEMINISM IN CHAUCER’S THE CANTERBURY TALES

Author(s): Elisabeta Zelinka / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

A characteristic of the medieval fabliaux is the dogma of antifeminist traditions. The present article will investigate whether The Canterbury Tales, as a type of fabliaux, are antifeminist literature or if, on the contrary, they stand as a reply to this genre and indirectly militate for feminist literature. Are The Canterbury Tales antifeminist writings or something one might call ‘anti-antifeminist’ literature?

ANIMAL METAPHORS AND SEMANTIC DEROGATION – DO WOMEN THINK DIFFERENTLY FROM MEN?

Author(s): Nadežda Silaški / Language(s): German Issue: 12/2013

From a Cognitive Linguistics standpoint the paper looks at how Serbian university students of both sexes apply 20 animal names to women and their physical or mental traits. The paper aims to show (1) what animal names are used as positive or negative metaphors for women; (2) whether the same animal imagery is used by both sexes in semantic derogation of women; and (3) whether male students exhibit a higher degree of semantic derogation of women compared to female students

THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP IN MANJU KAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS

Author(s): Eleonora Olivia Bălănescu / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

This paper attempts an analysis of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters from the perspective of mother-daughter relationships. Starting from the assumption that the mother plays a crucial part in socialising children into traditional gender roles, I will focus on family relations and women’s quest for identity in an Indian society set against the backdrop of Partition.

TAMING THE HEART OF THE WILD: THE DOMESTICATION OF WOMEN IN JOHN FLETCHER’S TRAGEDIE OF BONDUCA

Author(s): SAMANTHA FRÉNÉE-HUTCHINS / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

Fletcher’s Bonduca is quite explicit in dealing with the patriarchal objective of domesticating the rebellious woman. Bonduca and her two daughters do not conform and so are sanctioned. They are portrayed as wild animals and marginal figures that have to be tamed, broken in through violence and rape in order to be re-integrated into the nation. When they refuse to be domesticated, their only option is suicide. However, this also stands as an allegory for taming the wild heart of England’s colonial spaces.

“UNDER THE MOON” – IMAGES AND FORMS OF ‘FEMALENESS’ IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S PLAYS

Author(s): Gabriella Tóth / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

This paper sheds light on the challenging imagery of femaleness in Adrienne Kennedy’s plays. Reshaping dramatic forms, she deconstructs the traditional narratives of motherhood, child bearing and birth. Her plays link the images of reproduction and proliferation with that of death. Kennedy reconstructs the fragmented self through visions of the inner terrain of the psyche which is projected through the moon-like, ever changing female body.

WOMEN WHO HAVE FEAR OF UNCLE SILAS: A STYLISTIC APPROACH

Author(s): Elena-Maria Emandi / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

The present paper attempts to categorize the different types of feminine characters who interact in one way or another with Silas Ruthyn. Emphasis will be placed upon the stylistic marks that appear in the Sheridan Le Fanu novel in which the mauvais sujet is dealt with.

TORTURE ON STAGE: PETER ZADEK’S STAGING OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Author(s): Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

In his 1991 French production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, the fourth of his career, German director Peter Zadek amplified the low-life scenes, first in the streets of Vienna and also in the prison, where he presented Pompey, the tapster-pimp turned apprentice executioner, as being as fully involved in his new job as he had been previously in the streets of Vienna under Mistress Overdone’s orders: now he is chopping up and sawing up naked females on stage. This paper will present some of the aspects of this expressionist sado-masochist version of the play, and discuss its legitimacy.

“A THING LIKE DEATH”: MEDICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BODIES IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS

Author(s): Greta Perletti / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

While the hysterical ailments of women in Shakespeare’s works have often been read from psychoanalytical standpoints, early modern medicine may provide new insights into the ‘frozen’, seemingly dead bodies of some of his heroines, such as Desdemona, Thaisa, and Hermione. In the wake of recent critical work (Peterson, Slights, Pettigrew), this paper will shed fresh light on the ‘excess’ of female physiology and on Shakespeare’s creative redeployment of some medical concepts and narratives.

“SYCORAX ON STAGE”:THE UNVOICED SHAKESPEAREAN FEMALE OTHER FINALLY SPEAKS IN SUNITI NAMJOSHI’S POETRY

Author(s): Gabriella Tóth / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2013

The witch has always been the representation of an unspeakable absence. Sycorax embodies all silenced African women, experiencing double patriarchy (a term used by Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka). Associated with the margins, she represented the barbarian Other to European culture. Sycorax decolonizes the male-dominated world of Prospero: from absence, she is turned into presence, as she constructs her subjective narrative.

Žene, Jugoslavija, antikomunistička narkoza i novi kolonijalizam: mape, putevi, izlazi

Author(s): Svetlana Slapšak / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 05/2013

In the paper the author tries to map out critically the situation within gender studies and their academic production in the region: the uncomfortable dealing with „Yugoslavia”, the overall situation of humanities and social sciences, the political, social and cultural backlash of women’s position/rights and visibility in the whole post-socialist world, the consequences of the war, the Western feminists’, academics, media and intellectuals’ impact on the interpretation of the war, of which all can be connected with the provoking terms in the title. The author illustrates the situation with some of t he examples of the Western academic and cultural dealing with the war and local feminism, and some problems of situating the „Yugoslav nostalgia”. The author proposes sever al theoretical and methodological approaches which could enable gender studies and hu manities’ academics in the region to grasp the problems from the new perspective: work/r esearch au pair, the concept of twin cultures, the method of ground-truthing .

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The Relations of Women Employees’ Career Barriers and Organization Culture: A Research in Konya

Author(s): Tahir Akgemci,Emine Et Otolu,Sefa CETIN / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Today, the number of literate and educated women is increasing, and in parallel with this the number of women emploees is growing too. Despite thie rise, women are facing a number of career barriers in their business life. Women do not have equal share in business environments comparated to men in terms of facing a variety of problems in career steps, not having the right to speak, not being involved in important decision-making processes and being excluded from managerial positions due to men presence. This research is consisted of 3 sections. In the first section, culture and organizational culture terms were researched. In the second section, career barriers and the relationship between career barriers and organizational culture were studied. Moreover in this section, glass ceiling syndrome was examined in terms of conceptual meaning. In the last section, witch is the application part of this research, in light of the findings based on literature review, a questionnaire was conducted with 75 women employees working in Konya city and it continue to find out more about their career barriers and organizational culture. Collected data was analyzed through SPSS software program. According to analysis results, questions regarding women employee's organizational culture and career barriers were evaluated.

Bourdieu esete az áramló folyóval és a parti sziklákkal

Author(s): Miklós Hadas / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2015

Pierre Bourdieu: La Domination masculine. Seuil, Paris, 1998.; Pierre Bourdieu: Férfiuralom. Ford. N. Kiss Zsuzsa. Napvilág, Bp., 2000.