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The feminist project has radicalised text/image relationships in myriad ways, disrupting the contours of discipline and medium. The multifaceted recyclings of a transdisciplinary methodology remind us that although in the past decades text/image studies has become an established academic research field in the first decades of the twenty-first century, its subversive potential to challenge cultural hegemonies has not diminished. On the contrary, intermedial fusions remain loaded with political and ethical issues that are in search of sites of resistance for marginalised, othered social subjects and meanings. The introduction explains how this special journal issue emerges from and is addressed to the politically significant network of feminist researchers – artists, theoreticians, and activists – we believe we share ties with on account of putting the study of intermediality in the service of ‘constructing a radically new understanding of our world in all its horror and hope, in the words of Griselda Pollock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An interview with theorist Mieke Bal is presented. It talks about the Bal's view on the theory of feminism in the modern society where there is a lot of use of the female body in literature and poems. It tells about the growth of feminism in art history as told by Peter Wagner. It speaks about the theorist's opinion on the novel Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert which depicted feminism.

An interview with author Liliane Louvel is presented. It focuses on the differences in the poetic system in the changing media and art form. It talks about the author's opinion on the manuscripts and hypertexts from the medieval era and their form in the digital electronic books (e-books). It tells about the use of the female body in the poems written by her along with visual imagery and narratology.