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The article analyzes the short story "Head and Shoulders" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Topics discussed include the interconnection between philosophical motifs and gender issues in the short story, the complexity in the relationship between the characters Horace and Marcia, and Fitzgerald's interest in ideas and philosophy as illustrated in the short story.

The main objective of this article is to examine the racial injustice as portrayed in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) and A Mercy (2008) with a specific focus on the experiences of Black individuals in American society. Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a theoretical framework and employing qualitative research methods. This study meticulously explores the depiction and resistance of racial injustice in Morrison's narratives. This research explores the unique struggles faced by characters like Pecola and Florens. When they make efforts in the face of the difficulties of self-identity in the societal norms of both White and Black communities. By emphasizing themes of racial identity, oppression, and belonging, this research uncovers the intricate layers of systemic racism deeply ingrained in American social structures. It also delineates various forms of racial injustice depicted in the novels, ranging from overt acts of discrimination to more subtle manifestations of structural oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper I look at how gender is performed in fanfiction, specifically in gender-swap stories within the Harry Potter fandom. Fanfiction is not constrained by any editorial oversight, and there are no financial considerations attached to either reading or writing it, two facts which make it a unique and essential part of the discourse surrounding children's literature. Anyone can write and read it, and there are very few narrative constraints, both of which make the characters and the worlds open to almost infinite types of adaptation. Rather than being closed off within a printed text, the characters take on an elasticity which allows them to exist in worlds, relationships and stories outside their source material. This narrative freedom means fan fictions act not just as textual adaptations, but also social commentaries, narrative sites which are plastic enough to allow writers to project themselves and their opinions onto pre-existing and familiar characters. This elasticity and textual fluidity lends itself very well to a study of contemporary performances of gender, which in turn reveals how the offline publishing market's adherence to a patriarchal hegemony continues to produce a gender imbalance in terms of both subject and author privilege, something which doesn't adequately reflect either the desires or the reading habits of contemporary children and young adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to explore the gender representation in the short story Boys and Girls by Alice Munro using Halliday's (1985) Transitivity system. The purpose of the study was to examine how gender stereotypes and expectations were portrayed in Boys and Girls through major transitivity processes, including material, mental and verbal processes. The study intended to investigate how these transitivity processes challenged or reinforced traditional roles of men and women in a patriarchal setting. A mixed-method research approach was employed combining both qualitative and quantitative techniques. For quantitative analysis, UAM corpus tool was employed to measure the frequency of participants, processes and circumstances. The qualitative analysis aimed to study gender representations through familial relationships, power dynamics, and societal expectations. On quantitative analysis, the frequencies were 28.1%, 24.3%, and 19.7% for participants, processes, and circumstances, respectively. Apart from this the frequencies of transitivity processes were also measured. Material processes represented 12.1%, mental processes accounted for 2.6%, verbal processes were 1.4%, relational processes made up 3.7%, and existential processes comprised 0.4%. The qualitative analysis explored and endorsed that men were typically characterized by authority, dominance, confidence, resilience, and strength; whereas, women were portrayed as more dependent, less dominant, delicate, and submissive. These distinctions about men and women were defined through the major transitivity processes found in the actions of both genders. Despite challenging the expected social gender roles through the protagonist of the story, Alice Munro had to conform to the stereotypical gender roles of the patriarchal society due to social constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike the fat body of Iros, παχύς bodies in Homeric poetry are powerful, attractive, and consistent with a non-gender- specific conception of the erotic. In Odyssey 18, Iros' bulk belies his lack of strength, but Odysseus' large frame, elsewhere described as παχύς, both promises and delivers effective action. A threat of castration distances Iros from the erotic; Odysseus enjoys sexual intimacy with several characters. Penelope exercises seductive charms over the suitors in book 18, shortly after being described as παχύς; the description of her "παχύς hand" at 21.6 suggests both bulk and strength. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on her experience of co-authoring the book "Modern Literatures in Spain" with scholar Luisa Elena Delgado. She discusses the significance of Delgado's participation in the project to the author's efforts in rethinking the discipline of Spanish studies. She explores Delgado's contributions to the book on literature in Castilian that showed the link between the Spanish literary canon and understandings of what the nation was or should be, which influenced gender attitudes.

A literary criticism of the novel "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield is presented. Topics discussed include Redfield's promotion of New Age ideologies, his reaffirmation of hegemonic American culture by using gendered and racialized tropes, and the portrayal of race, gender and salvation in the book.

Two major barriers interfere with writing trans histories of the premodern world: the conflict between creating a legible or foreignised past and balancing the vastness of the social system of gender against individual performances of gender identity. In this article, I propose one methodology to bypass these barriers. Additionally, this methodology reminds us that both gender and history are systems which we use to generate narratives about ourselves and that these narratives always care for and nourish certain people. Here, I issue a call for trans historians to unabashedly write histories that care for and nourish trans lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the unique role the German language played in the development of Robert Tobin's queer identity and academic work. Topics discussed include Tobin's choice of German as a language of gay desire, the queer textuality of his German language journals, and his account of gender and sexuality in his writing.

Do popular children's books tend to reflect gender stereotypes, and do parents prefer their daughters to read books reflecting this pattern? We explored these research questions using the popular Roger Hargreaves' Mr. Men and Little Miss collection of children's storybooks, which is a series of individual stories all titled with and based on a binarized gendered character (e.g., Mr. Greedy, Little Miss Sunshine). Using a deductive content analysis approach, Study 1 revealed that the characters in the series' 81 books tend to behave in gender stereotypical ways, with male characters more adventurous and active and female characters more domestic and passive. Books that had female leads were also more likely to have male secondary characters. In Study 2, participants rated the masculinity/femininity and positivity/negativity of the traits of each of the book series' titular main characters without knowing the (gendered) book title. The traits used in Little Miss stories were associated with femininity, and the Mr Men story traits with masculinity. In Study 3, when faced with the prospect of selecting a Little Miss book to read to their daughter, parents preferred counter-stereotypical book choices (e.g., Little Miss Brainy). Perceived consistency with what parents wanted to teach their daughters about women predicted this book choice. Overall, although these books tended to reflect traditional gender stereotypes (Studies 1, 2), and people held these beliefs (Study 3), we found that parents wanted a counter-stereotypical book for their daughter. Implications for the transmission of gender stereotypes via children's literature and parental choices are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The past two and a half decades have witnessed an explosion of savvy, edgy, creative work inspired by Melville. This "Melville effect," occurring across multiple genres and media and often in mixed-media formats, is characterized by an aesthetics of hybridity and pastiche that recalls Melville's own stylistic and formal innovations. Fascinatingly, many of the most intriguing examples of this effect make the presence of women central to their engagements with the heady "masculinity" associated with Melville's nearly all-male worlds. Indeed, the material and metaphorical links between whaling as an industry and the female body as a site of consumption—hinging on the historical use of whalebone or baleen in the manufacture of hoop skirts and corsets—form the point of entry for artists T. L. Solien, Ellen Driscoll, and Rinde Eckert, whose bold reenvisionings of Moby-Dick , at once postmodern and feminist, form the subject matter of this essay. Moving the women so often absent in Melville to the forefront is one productive point of entry for such contemporary efforts, and it is an approach that Solien, Driscoll, and Eckert—in their different but complementary ways—exemplify at its best. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "History of Britain," by John Milton is presented. It discusses Milton's gendered virtues as confirmed in the book, Milton's portrayal of Cordelia as head of an army, the power and ability of a woman reflected in the book, and Milton's establishment of Boadicea as a warrior queen like Cordelia.

This article draws on Oscar Wilde's collected works to convey new insights about how he is depicted in biofiction, with a focus on Louis Edwards's 2003 novel Oscar Wilde Discovers America. Edwards creates a protagonist who underplays Wilde's marginalization and who struggles to see the interplay between gender, nationality, and race. The distance between character, author, and text facilitates Edwards's interrogation of biofiction itself—its biases, its lapses, and its opportunities. In part one of my analysis, I track the Judas Kiss motif across works by Wilde and within Edwards's reimagining to discuss how biofiction itself hinges on reversal and betrayal. In part two, I examine how Edwards's biofiction corrects for the historical homosociality of life-writing by surfacing the suffering of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay rereads Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden as a dildonic text using Paul Preciado's theorization of dildonics and prosthetic gender. Catherine Bourne's (un)becoming(s) in the published and manuscript versions of the novel are a depiction of a body authoring itself, supplemented by numerous dildos or dildonic operations: fingers, hair, clothes, and visits to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Rereading Hemingway in the aftermath of the nonidentitary grammar of Preciado's dildonics creates another field of play for the Hemingway industry and the Hemingway reader: Hemingway as theorist of prosthetic gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The masterpiece of modernist literature Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence delves into the complicated dynamics that existed between gender and romantic relationships in the early 20th century. This research delves into the intricate depiction of women in the novel, including their place in society, the evolving dynamics of their interactions with men, and the recurring ideas of love, power, and freedom. Through the lens of feminism, this research examines D.H. Lawrence's critique of the conventional gender roles that have been placed on men and women, as well as his characters' attempts to forge their paths and the impact of societal pressures on their romantic relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the numerous critical claims of "timeliness" around the recently recovered novel Romance inMarseille as well as Claude McKay's own numerous commitments and challenges as they emerge therein: the multiple and enduring after-lives of slavery, the Bolshevik Revolution and the burgeoning of its stiflingly bureaucratic Thermidor under Stalin, the various theoretical and programmatic complications that issues of race and gender posed for international socialism alongside the promises and disappointments of emancipatory politics writ large. However, in attempting to adjudicate such problematics of difference, McKay also provides the outlines of a dialectical "Black Intersectional International," thereby gesturing toward a "commonism" of the quayside. Keywords racial capitalism, Claude McKay, intersectionality, Black radical tradition, socialism [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance. Moving from Dante's examples of humility in Purgatory, Canto X, this article focuses on representations of humility in textual and pictorial sources authored by women and men between the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries in Italy. By showing the complexity of these representations, this article revisits and reconsiders one‐sided historiographical narratives according to which humility in the Middle Ages was intrinsically, persistently and negatively related to feminine suppression and servility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anita Nair's Ladies Coupé (2001) is about six women who meet in an express train's compartment in southern India. One of these women, Akhila, is the narrator of the novel, while we hear the voices of the other women only when they narrate their stories in first person to Akhila. The way the women tell these stories one by one is in the spirit of empowering Akhila, who is portrayed as a woman bound within heteronormative ideas of coupledom and gender-based expectations of care labor within patriarchal families. The women also encourage her, by example, to question the accepted ethical model of feminist practice within an already unethical patriarchal structure of society. This encouragement happens, I argue, as they recount instances of the self-acknowledged unethical care practices through which they have affectively resisted different forms of violence within the upper caste, patriarchal, heteronormative family structure. These forms of violence are intersectional as they are based on overlapping identities of caste, age, and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the ideologies of gender representation in Egyptian folktales as seen in El Ashmawy's "Folktales from Egypt" (Hekayat Shabia men Mas'r). Other topics include the linguistic encoding of value systems and beliefs and how the conceptual-textual function of 'naming' and 'describing' reflect culturally rooted ideologies.

After the naksa, Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan composed her famous "I Shall Not Weep," which she later included in her first resistance-themed collection: The Night and Knights. In this poem, Tuqan openly proclaims her intention to enter the male-dominated political arena and join the Palestinian poets of resistance. However, Tuqan's turn toward the nationalist cause did not come without a struggle. She had, for long, resisted this move as a performative denunciation of women's paradoxical location within the nationalist symbolic order. Focusing on The Night and Knights, this article traces the poetic representations of Tuqan's emerging attachment to the collective and investigates the meanings of her engagement with Palestinian nationalist discourse. I argue that while the construal of the gendered self in the collection illuminates the generative power that the Palestinian experience holds, it also reveals how Tuqan's location within various systems of power informs her strategies of representation and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1656, clergyman Abraham Wright edited and printed Parnassus Biceps , an unabashedly royalist poetic miscellany. Though under the radar in both Wright's day and our own, Biceps performs crucial political work through a program of aesthetic education. This is accomplished in part by Biceps 's repeated insistence on its university pedigree and by the inclusion of a number of "flawed beauty" poems, poems that locate, hyperfixate on, and praise a perceived flaw in an otherwise beautiful woman. Through these poems , Biceps attempts to reconfirm the normative gender hierarchy and emphasizes the masculine prerogative to create, circulate, and assign meaning to women. Further, centering and praising a perceived flaw render the flawed beauty poems of Wright's anthology analogous to the royalist cause itself. The coalition of ideological positions grouped under the rubric of royalism not only acknowledged but indeed embraced a flawed king and flawed church at its center. Poems celebrating flawed beauty can thus be assimilated to the defense of an imperfect (dead) king and an imperfect (disestablished) religion. As such, this seemingly trivial volume performs urgent political and aesthetic work by embarking upon the project of urging a scattered, defeated royalist cohort to continue to support their heroically flawed cause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This academic paper explores the portrayal of gender and sexuality in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner. The novel is set in Afghanistan, a country where gender roles are clearly defined and homosexuality is taboo. Through the complex and multifaceted characters of Amir, Hassan, Assef, and Soraya, Hosseini challenges traditional ideas about gender and sexuality. The protagonist Amir is portrayed as a sensitive and emotional boy who does not fit neatly into traditional ideas of masculinity. In contrast, Hassan is portrayed as a strong and brave young boy who enjoys sewing and embroidery, traditionally feminine activities. The character of Assef challenges traditional ideas about sexuality by being attracted to other men, despite the severe punishment for homosexuality in Afghan society. The character of Soraya defies tradition by running away with a man before marrying Amir, portraying women as strong and independent. Hosseini's portrayal of gender and sexuality challenges traditional binary narratives and shows the complexities of gender and sexuality in a society heavily influenced by tradition and religion. This paper argues that The Kite Runner sheds light on the impact of societal expectations and cultural traditions on individuals and highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reads Helen Phillips's extraordinary novel of motherhood, The Need (2019), alongside recent theorists of post-politics. Phillips's novel is illuminating because it reveals how an adequate understanding of the post-political requires supplementing current accounts with the categories of gender and heterogeneous time. The Need subverts the postfeminist articulation of politics as an arena in which "feminism" is practicable only in preemptively curtailed and diminished form. It does so by cracking open the "reality" enforced by neoliberal motherhood to show how its apparent solidity rests on the excision of alternate times—on a foreclosure of the temporal otherness that is the condition for historical change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the transgender themes in the short story "Enigmas" by Louisa May Alcott. Topics include the author's argument that the short story encourages the articulation of trans feelings which in turn suggests a more complicated representation of gender and sexuality in the work of Alcott, the critical attention escaped by the story despite the remarkable resemblances between "Enigmas" and Alcott's life, and the difference of the story from all of Alcott's other sensation fiction.

The gendered dynamics of informal work in southern cities across the globe has been well documented. Women in the informal sector, usually already marginalised through racialised and class positionalities, face predictable work challenges in patriarchal society, lower pay, longer work hours, more family responsibilities, less social protections, and safety concerns linked to workspaces. In this article, we explore the specific challenges that women waste pickers in the inner city of Durban, South Africa, experience. The study draws on ethnographic research with eight waste pickers. Beyond the challenges, the narrative data illustrates how and why women waste pickers navigate and negotiate for space and safety in the inner city of Durban. We highlight how women build social relationships as a mitigation strategy against material and varied safety concerns. These social relationships work across formal business linkages and relationships on the street. These mitigation strategies are simultaneously gendered responses to work in the city and innovative business practices. The experiences of women waste pickers in the city indicates that it is left to the women themselves, individually and in small collectives, to find ways to navigate issues of discrimination and exclusions linked to work, gender and space in the city. Ultimately, we draw on the experiences of women waste pickers in inner city Durban to ask questions about what lessons can be learnt to advocate better municipal planning that proactively deals with gender and justice in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Well-developed bodies of literature—of course with major lacunae as well as strengths—exist in relation to two areas of research and thought relevant to the emergence of better cities in the tortured territory and society of South Africa. The more personal scale deals with genders and sexualities and is energetic, young, globally linked and relatively open. At city scale, extensive literatures are voluminous though sometimes tied to global urban conceptual traditions, although there are many creative and original contributions too. From the perspective of intersections between the person and the city, what is lacking is more substantial work which brings questions common in genders and sexualities literatures to city scale enquiry, and some of the techniques of city enquiry into genders and sexualities research more broadly. There exists, however, a variety of types of work which consciously (sometimes otherwise) brings gender and sexuality studies to the city, and, in turn, brings city studies to exploration of genders and sexualities. The modest purpose of this intervention is to survey such literatures and to generate new questions for conceptualisation, research and writing. The intention is to aid new entrants to the field of genders, sexualities and cities to add creatively and substantially to scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research paper is read the female characters in the fiction of the Indian English novelist Arun Joshi as victims of gendered portrayals. The protagonists of Joshi's fiction are anti-heroes with questionable morals and characterized by a twisted idealism in whose wake of destruction the female characters simply by dint of their gender are almost always sidelined and victimized. A looming sense of doom preordains those seeking fulfillment in Joshi's dystopic world and as such the female characters, mostly relegated to traditional and stereotypical gender roles, have no say or choice in the unfurling of their destinies. They are simply a means to an end - for the protagonist to arrive at a certain stage in his life, and for the writer to depict the absurdity of materialistic existence which degrades the souls of the protagonists. This paper will examine the gender-biasedness in the depiction of the female characters in the three novels by Arun Joshi, namely, The Last Labyrinth, The Foreigner and, The Strange Case of Billy Biswas with a view to bring them to the foreground to highlight their suffering, limitations imposed by their gendered portrayals and suppressed voices. Such foregrounding of the female characters will also serve to expose the hypocrisies of male character portrayals in patriarchal texts as well as in their analyses and criticisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper deals with the societal framework of gender and sexuality in Preeti Shenoy's novel, The Rule Breakers. Judith Butler popularized the issues of 'gender' and 'sex' in her masterpiece, Gender Trouble. Judith Butler gives importance to the performance in order to establish the role of gender as well as she focuses on the trouble of homosexuality. 'Sex' is biological, whereas 'gender' is socially constructed. Apart from male and female bodies there is another sex that is called other sex. But the society defines only masculine and feminine. Language also denotes these two genders through the terms like 'he' and 'she'. In the field of language there is no single determining factor to detect the other sex. This binary structure of gender affects a great deal in the lives of female characters as well as of the other sex in Shenoy's novel, The Rule Breakers. Similarly, the normative trend of heterosexuality or the societal framework of heterosexuality hampers the lives of gay and lesbian and it causes despair and disappointment. In spite of the legal acceptance, some people dare not to reveal the nature of homosexuality, as it may separate them from the rest of the people. In The Rule Breakers Shenoy's treatment of gender and sexuality explores the subjugation and liberation of Shenoy's Veda as well as the agony of the gay, Veda's husband. Therefore, the present study aims at discovering the feminist approach of Veda and the crisis of gay identity for Veda's husband. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research paper, I analyze the effects of institutionalised ways of reading 'gender' and 'caste' in Marathi literature with reference to Baburao Bagul, one of the important Dalit writers, short stories with the help of some notions and arguments from Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Jacques Derrida's essay "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences", Aniket Jaaware's essay "Destitute Literature" and the book Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching. Baburao Bagul's short stories re-valuated the established institutionalized reading practices of gender and caste in literature set by the Marathi writers and critics, mostly upper-caste, before the 1960s. However, other Dalit writers did not venture to re-valuate the representation of gender and caste in literature. Before the concept of 'Destitute Literature' was propounded by Aniket Jaaware, most of the reading/analysis of Marathi Dalit literature followed institutionalized ways of consumption of literature. The dominant practices of reading literature in academia as well as out of it did not spare even the scholars who claimed to be different from the hegemony. The descriptions and analysis of gender and caste were mostly on the grounds of identity politics. For example, all the essays in the Marathi book Samagra Lekhak: Baburao Bagul (Complete Writer: Baburao Bagul) edited by Dr. Krushna Kirwale offer the institutionalized readings of Bagul's stories, their form, content, and the characters. I attempt to critique such earlier writings and criticism written on Baburao Bagul's stories and re-read the stories in destitutionalised way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The word 'gender' zeroes-in on not only grammatical use but beyond its grammatical periphery. In the context of Shashi Deshpande's novels, it stresses on culturally imposed role on women as different from sex which is biologically determined. The novelist emphasises on the theme that gender as differentiated from sex, has nothing to do with biology; gender is a social and cultural construct. A creation of patriarchy, it serves the male flair for domination, and is not based on mutuality but on oppression. Shashi Deshpande's women have been daughters, wives, mothers and mistresses. These are the roles that demand different kinds of responses from women in the name of honour, dishonour, right, wrong, but always in the context of men's in lives. The writer portrays these mythical characters to the contemporary situation and probes into the sensitive, but untroden corners of their heart. The responses are amazing, as amazing as to expect a replay of the mythical 'perfect women' image today. She makes a sincere attempt at reinterpreting the meaning of different roles that a woman plays in life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on Dinaw Mengestu's representation of African migrant masculinities within the American space in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. By paying attention to the gendered nature of the American space, histories, and political and economic cultures, I argue that American foundational mythologies and metanarratives act as repertoires that shape marginal African masculinities' imagination and the embodied experience of the American space. In reading African migrant masculinities' navigation of commercial and corporate America, this article takes heed of the materiality, corporeality, and the governmentality of space and examines how space produces and shapes sociality. Ultimately, the examination of African masculinities' use and access to the American space enables an interrogation of gendered experiences of migration, African masculinities within global modernity, and the reimagining of ethical and egalitarian horizons of racial and political relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An ungendered narrative is a work of fiction where the gender of one or more characters remains undisclosed throughout the entire work or a significant portion of it. This lack of gender results in the deconstruction of gender, and the narrative transcends a fixed gender binary. This paper discusses the importance given to characters' gender in the history of literature as well as the ungendered narrative's attempt to change this importance by not gendering the characters. In addition, this paper identifies the attributes common to the select ungendered narratives, that is, how ungendered narratives are written (including the stylistic and thematic features authors employ), that may help determine whether a work of literature can be called an ungendered narrative. The ungendered narrative highlights the insignificance of gender in fiction and real life, imploring readers to stop casting judgments based on gender and sexuality, which can lead to violence, trauma, ostracism, and abandonment. This narrative's strength calls for additional such works, and this paper provides a framework for authors who intend to create them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discuses the a comparative analysis of monsters in gothic novels "Coraline" and "Frankenstein". It is reported that study of gender and monstrosity in Frankenstein and Coraline have offered students outside of single sex education. It is further reported that the issues of gender construction and division have continued to interest literary monster makers over several years.

The past two decades of contemporary British drama have been marked by an upsurge of interest in the exploration of the ethics, aesthetics and politics of authorship along with the relational dynamics among the author, the work and audience/reader. One of the latest and paradigmatic examples of this trend is Ella Hickson's The Writer (2018), a play informed by a queer feminist sensibility and distinguished by its aesthetics, its form, and its political critique of theatre as an institute underpinned by phallogocentric and heteronormative discourses. Accordingly, the essay will demonstrate how the queering of gender and genre are indelibly intertwined in the play. The Writer queers conventional theatrical form not only by deconstructing its "economy" and "forms" of hegemonic subjectivity, expression, and desire; but also by incorporating a surreal scene and various metatheatrical moments – to develop a more evental (or feminine) form characterised by formal transgression, abstraction, and excess. The Writer queers gender by pondering the dynamics of an evental love-sex relationship between the female writer (the protagonist) and her female lover along with a surreal experience of intimacy between the writer and mythical Semele. To effectively ponder the thematic and formal preoccupations of The Writer, this essay develops a nuanced conceptual framework whose premises include Irigaray's "the female imaginary", Deleuze's "becoming-other", Cixous's "écriture feminine", Lyotard's "the figural" and Derrida's "chora". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This interview with the poet Glenda George and Lewis Johnson (PhD student, University of Liverpool) took place over email during December 2021–March 2022. George discusses her early work in the British Poetry Revival, examining the impacts of class and gender on her experience as a writer. George describes her role in the development of the poetry magazine Curtains (1971–1978), discussing her translation process and her reason for translating the French avant-garde into English. George concludes by tracing her poetics from the 1970s and 1980s into the present, offering her views on contemporary poetry and poetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study stems from a doctoral thesis entitled "Gender and Literature in Textbooks for Argentine Secondary Schools (1984-2011)" sponsored by CONICET and directed by José Maristany and co-directed by Analía Gerbaudo. The study's main objective was to reconstruct the way in which discussions on gender during certain pivotal moments in history impacted language and literature textbooks published for Argentine secondary schools. To this end, a book from the series "Todos protagonistas", published during 2004 and 2006, is examined. Document analysis, historical review, and semi-structured interviews are used to explore the impact of the State and of educational publishers on sex/gender perspectives that appeared in these books. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The image of Indian women has often been associated with the act of obedience and submission. Previous studies on gender and sexuality in India's literary tradition and culture point to the dominance of heteropatriarchal normativity and the scarcity of the image of a powerful woman capable of contesting and dismantling such impositions. In this study, we argue that Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Before We Visit the Goddess (2016) presents a more nuanced image of the Indian women who constantly problematize the mainstream prescriptions of gender roles and boundaries. In pursuit of the argument, this study aims to explore the novel to examine the multiple ways in which the leading female characters contest, negotiate, and reconstruct pre-existing definitions of gender identities. As an analytical framework, we draw upon the poststructuralist feminist Hélène Cixous's notions of "the feminine," "the other," and "écriture féminine" (feminine writing) to shed light on female characters' struggles against submission to patriarchal discourses. The findings reveal that the three female characters--i.e., Sabitri, Bela, and Tara--resist discourses of masculinity through empowerment in their unique ways: establishing a business, getting a divorce, and having an abortion. Through such practices, the female characters demonstrate the will of both a woman and a mother and a strong sense of love that works as a key factor in their resistance to patriarchy and rewriting identity relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the work of the renowned Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco, highlighting his importance in the field of literature. The recurring themes in his work are explored, such as the value of secrets and the use of intimate genres such as letters and diaries. The intertextuality with Chilean authors and the theme of time as a horizon of meaning in his work are also examined. The article highlights the author's existentialist stance towards the question of hope and other fundamental inquiries. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines Carter's portrayal of the intersections of race, gender, and nationalism through imagery drawn from the nationalist tales Momotaro (Peach Boy) and through figuration of the lion and the unicorn in her writing during and after staying in Japan. Analyzing Miss Z and Fireworks , we argue that Carter's depictions of fantastical creatures reveal a proto-intersectional awareness of complex power interconnections between race and gender, specifically in relation to ideas of whiteness and masochism. Like her contemporary Taeko Kono, Carter critiques men's masochism and theorizes a type of feminine masochism. Carter grows in awareness of both racial politics (whiteness) and masochism in Japanese culture and attempts to grasp the "essence of the other's otherness" therein. In doing so, she conceptualizes intersectional power relations of gender and race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarship of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912), despite Shaw's protestations that Eliza and Higgins can never marry, has for a century debated whether the play's content and structure imply so. A less analysed route to resolving this issue is to more closely consider Eliza's father, Arthur Doolittle. Some critics read Doolittle as largely a comic diversion meant to ironize her social transformation. Yet the marital question and Alfred Doolittle's role are integrated strands, for Eliza's emotions toward Higgins might be better understood as filial ones, as she attempts and fails to find fatherly love and acceptance from Higgins. Doolittle's character helps establish this daughter–substitute father relationship by his role as an absent and emotionally unavailable parent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ismat Chughtai was an Urdu-language writer in India whose affiliation with the Progressive Writers Movement sparked a lifelong tryst with socialism. This article examines the "material agency" found in household objects that help to co-create a society for women within their private gendered domains in which they hold power. The quilt and the diary – objects in Chughtai's short stories "The Quilt" and "Chhoti Apa" respectively – serve as biographical insight into the women's lives because they create a subjectivity that was previously denied to Muslim women by oriental ethnographic studies. The agency of the objects lies in their ability to morph their meaning according to contexts, revealing the socially constructed nature of identity of humans and objects, forged by wrestling with variables such as gender and sexuality. Chughtai's stories "unveil" Muslim women's daily performative acts of resistance in a decolonial discourse on material culture and postcolonial feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on representation of travesti in Argentinean culture committed to autheticity and mentions understanding enumerations of travesti identity in Argentina. Topics discussed include consideration of the translation of transgender identity and scholarship, travesti's unassimilable political identity outlined by activist Lohana Berkins and book "La virgen cabeza" by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.