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"Janice Galloway, a contemporary Scottish woman writer, has written a novel about a 28-year-old female drama teacher, living on the outskirts of Glasgow. [...] In this paper I will investigate only one aspect of this process: how cleanliness/purity functions in the process of Joy Stone’s creation of her subjecthood. "
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The purpose of this paper is to present the activities and the role of the autochthonous women's group Resisting Mothers (‘Otpor Moms’), which rose within the organization Resistance (‘OTPOR’) in Novi Sad (the capital city of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina) in the summer of 2000. This topic is interpreted in empirical discourse.
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"Post-colonialism and feminism are related bodies of thought concerned with fictional representation of the marginalized ‘Other’ (colonized subjects and women). The stereotype image of the colonized seen as genderized into women due to the association with weakness, irrationality, passivity and disempowerment is present in many colonial writings A Passage to India among them. "
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"Despite the equivocal reception accorded to her work, Jeanette Winterson has gradually risen to prominence as a writer who interrogates the dominant contemporary models of history, re-assesses power relations between the sexes and actively seeks to represent and inscribe new female experience, explores the relations between language, truth and representation and asserts the power relationship between the reader and text. ..."
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Feminist literary and film criticism of William Shakespeare’s dramas; Female images in Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare and Titus by Julie Taymor; Tamora - femme fatale; Lavinia – virgin beauty; The Nurse – racist nanny;
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"The contemporary cultural stage is generally described in terms of a highly controversial term: postmodernism. It appears in a wide range of texts and contexts, carrying numerous connotations. Its all-encompassing nature partly defines the multitude of changes that our world has recently witnessed, and partly demands an elitist interpreter to penetrate its deepest philosophy. ..."
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"Like such mythopoetic figures as Frankenstein, Dracula, and, even, Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has become, in the century following the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella, what might be called an autonomous creation. “Jekyll and Hyde” has become part of the contemporary consciousness and language, appearing in dictionaries as referring to the type of personality made renowned by Stevenson. A science-fiction story, a thriller, a psychological or scientific story, the fragmented narratives are unified by the idea of evil hiding behind/ inside a respectable appearance, the idea of evil penetrating the very British conventionalism symbolized by the tea scene..."
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"American female fictional characters are not people. They have no individuality, no entity that says: “I am myself, this person and no other”. Like Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms, as Joyce Warren argues in The American Narcissus, they say instead: “There is no me anymore”. Or, he goes on, like Marilyn Monroe in the film Don’t Bother to Knock, they submit: “I’m anything you want me to be”. "
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"Both the admirers and detractors of Manning’s Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy tend to see these works having two distinct aspects: on the one hand they give us the local colour and political history of the Balkans and the Levant during the Second World War; on the other they tell the story of a marriage and its problems. "
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"Feminist criticism has always been opposed to the objectivity of the New Criticism with its insistence of the ‘impersonality’ of author and reader. Feminists, who take gender as a fundamental issue of interpretation, are rebuked by orthodox, male dominated critical schools, which sanctify the male author as an impregnable author-ity, asserting that the author’s personal life and ideology are not relevant to his impersonal literary structures. ...."
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"Feminist academics generally distinguish three different perspectives in the development of feminist theory: theories of equality, of difference and of deconstruction. These perspectives refer to different strategies and theoretical positions in the debate about the significance of sexual difference. The theories of difference centre mostly on mainstreaming women’s history, on resisting readings of the male canon. Rewriting the female tradition, establishing the authority of the female writer as author, rediscovering women writers and women’s traditions and restoring them to visibility form the abiding concerns of those pursuing the theories of difference...."
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"The text I investigate, The Waterfall (1969) by Margaret Drabble, raises several questions concerning various aspects of the genres of the novel, the romance and the Bildungsroman. It tells the self-in-the-making process of a female poet, Jane Gray, who having driven away her husband gives birth to her second child and starts an adulterous love relation with her cousin’s husband, James."
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"If one is to believe criticism, texts like Chaucer`s “The Knight`s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales possess a most peculiar space: on one hand they belong to a specific time and place and cultural context (which we all explain to our students at the beginning of classes), but on the other hand they inhabit a kind of mythical space outside the history of literature, a space similar to the heavens where Greek heroes went after death (if they were heroic enough), a space of immortality. ..."
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"Seeing the words “Bible” and “feminist” in the same title may surprise some readers. Yet, for America’s first feminists of the nineteenth century, the Bible was the basis for their beliefs in the equality of the races and the sexes. [...] The purpose of this study is to examine the biblical basis of emerging feminist thought in nineteenth-century America. The significance of this study lies in its analysis of the actual words written or spoken by these women or the transcriptions of their speeches instead of relying on secondary research about them. ..."
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The 20th century was marked by the feminine revolution and the change of status of women throughout the world. The following article wishes to approach from a multidisciplinary perspective the contrasting differences of the woman’s condition in two different “worlds” (Occidental and the Balkans) given the access of women towards education, social attitude and the afferent politics for women. These indexes influence the rate of participation of women in the working field, thus, they play a crucial role in the personal development of them. The comparative analysis of the specialized literature points out the main characteristics of women from France and Germany (as defining parts of the Occidental Europe) and Turkey and Bosnia (representative countries for the Balkans and the Islamic part of the continent) throughout the 20th and the 21st century. Although there is a common set of features, it is the differences that draw attention regarding the unequal participation of women in the social, economical and political life.
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The paper explores gender aspect of humorous discourse in four popular women’s magazines published in Serbia and the U.S. Firstly, we wanted to describe the functions humour has in this discourse and determine to what extent gender roles are affected by humour. The results of this study indicate that in most cases self-directed humour is used, particularly in the narratives where the authors want to depreciate themselves, elicit sympathy or build rapport with the readership. Gender influences humour both overtly and covertly and stereotypes related to gender are still widely present in both cultures. On the other hand, humour upholds gender roles and helps in maintaining them.
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After decades of research into disadvantages for girls in the educational system, “male underachievement” has recently become a frequently discussed topic in the social sciences. A glance at explanations for the development of gender differences in academic achievement reveals that the disadvantages for males and females are explained differently to some extent, but that gender stereotypes seem to play an important part in most popular theoretical approaches. This article gives an overview of actual gender differences in academic achievement in Europe. Following a short description of the nature and functioning of stereotypes in general, and of gender stereotypes in particular, the article discusses the current state of empirical research on the most important theoretical explanations for gender differences in academic achievement and the role gender stereotypes play in these theories. Finally, open questions – and thus fields for further research – are outlined.
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