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The present paper discusses how various elements in shōjo manga (Japanese comics for girls) have been incorporated in works of Japanese contemporary literature. The connection between shōjo manga and literature was pointed out for the first time when the novel Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana was published in 1987. This paper argues that this connection has developed further since then, focusing on one of the most active writers in contemporary Japanese literature, Miura Shion[1]. The paper briefly introduces the genre shōjo manga and describes its connection with the novel Kitchen before analysing a short story and an essay by Miura Shion, focusing both on their motifs and styles, to identify elements influenced by shōjo manga.

The theory of the long-run perspective aims to explain how economies grow. On the other hand, Kaldor developed a theory that concerns not only this objective but to build a model also considering the implications in the income distribution. This paper consists of a rigorous review of the evolution of Kaldor’s Theory, treating with government activities, the financial market, and so on, to show the importance of the theme in our days. One contribution of this paper is to lead the researchers to a solid understanding of Growth and Income Distribution Models derivate from the Cambridge School and to present a new vision of the relevance of the heterodox scientific world.

This paper explores the experience of women in academia by looking both back and at the present. We consider two women who searched for and found academic accomplishment. Together, they serve as representatives of a new way of living for women in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Eliza Ritchie (1856-1933) from Canada and María Goyri (1873-1954) from Spain are exemplars of the emerging contributions of women in the academy as part of the changing role for women in Western culture and the need for women to support each other in shared feminist causes. These women shared the same time period, the same intellectual values, the same commitment to scholarship, and the same incredible determination to help develop a modern society that could embrace the full incorporation of women. This paper considers their accomplishments in light of academia today in both Canada and Spain in regards to the advancement of women. It also examines some lingering inequalities in terms of tenure and promotion, salary, research capacity, administrative and leadership positions. Such an international collaboration contributes to the shared sense of sisterhood for women in academia today.

Unconventional monetary policy was implemented as a result of the financial crisis and resulted in rising asset prices in the stock markets. While the increase in asset prices is not exclusively triggered by unconventional monetary policy, central bankers accept that unconventional monetary policy has resulted in distributional effects on wealth, and that these are not negligible. What is missing are studies analyzing whether these non-standard monetary policies have different distributional effects on women and men. The intent of the paper is to interrogate whether unconventional monetary policy of central banks has a gender bias that operates in favor of men as gender and against women as gender. Relying on insights from feminist economics, the paper uses the results of the ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) of 62,000 household across 15 euro-area countries. While the results are tentative, they show an asymmetric distributional gendered impact. Since the rich own more assets than the poor, and since monetary easing works in part by raising asset prices, these unconventional policies may unintentionally benefit the wealthier quintile (on average more male) at the expense of the poorer strata of society (on average more female).

The aim of this paper is to explore the grammatical category of person in Italian, taking into consideration social deixis in the communication that takes place through Facebook. Social deixis is understood here as various means by which information of social nature is coded and grammaticalizedin a language. Such information concerns the situational context of the communication, social roles of its participants and their reciprocal relations (cfr. Levinson 1993: 83). The analysis focuses on phenomena that are related to social deixis such as personal pronouns, possessive pronouns and adjectives, verb forms, honorific titles, diminutives. Facebook has been chosen as a source of authentic material due to its expansion in Italian society, which allows a fairly detailed exam if heterogeneity of Facebook users is considered (in terms of age, sex, level of education, social group). Precisely, the paper takes into consideration 155 comments published to the profiles of three important Italian public figures: Sergio Mattarella, Matteo Renzi and Roberto Saviano. Means of communication offered by Facebook facilitate production of everyday, colloquial language, which permits insight into natural and spontaneous realizations of social deixis. Their decoding helps to highlight the changes that affect the rules of politeness in today’s communication. The phenomena of growing informality or infringement of good manners are caused, or at least reinforced, by the arrival of new means of communication such as Facebook, but they simply illustrate a certain tendency, already present in contemporary Italian.Their decodification helps to highlight the changes that affect the rules of politeness in today’s communication. The phenomena of growing informality or infringement of good manners are caused, or at least reinforced, by the arrival of new means of communication such as Facebook, but they simply illustrate a certain tendency, already present in contemporary Italian.