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Nove interventi che riflettono da angolazioni diverse sulla condizione delle donne tra passato e presente, tradizione e innovazione, logos e antilogos. Un coro di voci diverse, assonanti e dissonanti, che illuminano con squarci epifanici l'arduo percorso di riconquista dello spazio individuale e sociale “patito” dalle donne, percorso antichissimo e ancora ben lungi dall'essersi concluso. Una rappresentazione dialettica di fatti mitici, storici, letterari, di eventi, relazioni, modi pensandi et operandi che mostrano la lotta millenaria delle donne per affermare e vedere riconosciuta la propria agency.

Constamment d'actualité, le féminin peine encore aujourd'hui à se libérer du carcan de la féminité oppressante, malgré les progrès scientifiques et les percées réalisées par les femmes dans les différents domaines réservés depuis bien longtemps aux hommes. Certes, les divers travaux sur le genre ont pu ouvrir une brèche dans l'édifice du patriarcat ; toutefois, ils n'ont pas pu changer véritablement les mentalités.

Der Band versammelt aktuelle mediävistische Forschungsansätze aus den Bereichen der Gender Studies, der Queer Studies und der Intersektionalitätsforschung. Der Horizont relevanter Fragestellungen, die sich mit diesen Theoriebildungen in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten ergeben haben, ist weit gespannt. Die vorliegenden Beiträge prägt eine doppelte Agenda: einerseits die Fortschreibung der traditionsreichen Gender Studies in Auseinandersetzung mit den neuen Ansätzen, andererseits die Öffnung des Forschungsfelds in die neuen Richtungen mit dem Ziel, eine möglichst umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit Differenzlogiken und -kategorien der mittelalterlichen Literatur zu ermöglichen. This volume presents contemporary scholarly approaches from the fields of Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and Intersectionality from a medievalist perspective. These approaches have engendered a particularly broad range of research questions in recent decades. Therefore, the contributions take on a two-fold agenda: they seek to both reassess Gender Studies in the light of newer methodological frameworks, and to facilitate new lines of enquiry when investigating concepts of difference and identity in medieval and early modern literatures.

The first of the Melammu Workshops askes how female and male representatives of the wise, female and male sages, were conceptualized in antiquity and whether there was a clear difference between female and male wisdom. The workshop followed a kind of historical chronology starting from Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources, continuing West through the Levant and ending with Greek and Roman documentation. It permitted a vast exploration of sages, both divine and human, as they were portrayed in antiquity. The papers brought to light several tensions among which the question of gender was not the least. Indeed, the nature of wisdom itself, human and divine, empirical, theoretical but also at times abstract and difficult to outline, pointed to the difficulty of a definition. Hence the plurality of representations might be interpreted as a sign of this difficulty and variety. Moreover, the gender question was found to be strongly related to the societies and their organization as evidenced elsewhere in current research. Any generalization or typology of the sages at this point could not be drawn but a clear historical evolution toward masculine representation of wisdom was evidenced. Certainly, this has to do with social change, economic structures and the loci of power and authority. However, in many regards, women appear as counterparts or homologues of men in their quest for wisdom. In that sense, the workshop proved very fruitful in displaying a large gallery of portraits and in bringing to light differences according to social settings and sources but also main trends of evolution through historical times.

Los textos reunidos en este volumen fueron escritos originalmente para la primera edición del Coloquio El cuerpo femenino y sus narrativas, conformado por mesas de diálogo y una conferencia magistral. Las cinco ponencias seleccionadas corresponden a Nuria Gómez Benet, Mónica Lavín, Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Rosa Beltrán y Sara Sefchovich. El material fue adaptado por sus autoras para este volumen con el propósito de potenciar la fuerza natural de sus escritos, magistralmente plasmados por sus expertas plumas, que hará que más de un lector quiera tender puentes hacia la obra de estas emblemáticas escritoras.

Au XXe siècle, la question identitaire touche autant l'individu que la collectivité : les identités nationales se cherchent et s'exacerbent tandis que l'individu reste au coeur de la réflexion philosophique et psychologique. Les idées circulent, les utopies foisonnent et les civilisations se confrontent. Des traditions disparaissent au profit de nouvelles. Et, face à face, les êtres humains s'observent et se questionnent. La place occupée par la/les tradition/s dans cette quête est primordiale car elle se trouve à l'origine de tout, qu'elle ait été admise comme fondatrice, matrice, ou qu'elle ait été reniée, de façon instinctive ou par un effort de volonté conscient. C'est ce que les contributrices et contributeurs de cet ouvrage, spécialistes de la Chine, du Japon, de la Corée, du Tibet, de l'Espagne, de la Russie, de la Grèce ou de la France, se sont proposées d'explorer de façon transculturelle, autour des notions clés d'identité, genre et tradition.

An der Braut Christi zeigt sich die christliche Revolution: die Umwälzung der herrschenden, gewalttätigen Geschlechter-, Klassen- und Rassenverhältnisse. Wie an keiner anderen Figur lässt sich an ihr die Liebes- und Erkenntnislehre des Christentums illustrieren. Die Brandmarkung der durch sie symbolisierten Lebensform als pervers und hysterisch war Ziel aller Reformatoren von Luther bis Zola. Doch ist die Liebe in der Moderne ohne die Braut Christi nicht zu denken. Als Figur unendlichen Begehrens zeitigt die sponsa eine mystische Liebessprache, eine Brautmystik, die sich über das Mittelalter bis zu Baudelaire und Proust fortschreibt. Die sponsa ist als genuin textuelles Phänomen lesbar, an dem sich Exegese und das Verhältnis von Buchstäblichkeit und Allegorese neu verhandeln lassen. Das Lektüreschicksal der sponsa Christi ist unter den theoretischen Voraussetzungen der neueren Geschichtsforschung zu einem bedeutenden Paradigma geworden. An diesem lassen sich die komplexen Verflechtungen von religions-, kunst- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Aspekten der konfliktbeladenen Ausprägung von Geschlechterdifferenz neu abschätzen und -lesen.

Este texto recoge los trabajos del Congreso Internacional de Literatura Medellín Negro del 2018 y de colaboradores invitados para resolver preguntas como: ¿cuáles son las representaciones de la república o la democracia en las novelas contemporáneas? ¿cuáles son los casos de violencia en estos modelos de organización social?, ¿cuál es el papel de la mujer en el mundo social de la novela de crímenes contemporánea?. Principios como: el imperio de la ley y la soberanía nacional sirven para entender los mecanismos de violencia y discriminación contra las mujeres, minorías étnicas, trabajadores o intelectuales. La novela de crímenes es un espejo útil para comprender estas situaciones.

En sondant la nature de voix féminines remarquables dans le vaste réservoir de la Fable, le présent volume choisit de s'interroger sur la manière dont celles-ci portent, révèlent et éventuellement transforment le texte dont elles sont issues.Ces voix sont donc envisagées comme inductrices de poésie, dans un sens large (qui ne se limite pas au genre littéraire) et comme moteur de réflexion métalittéraire. Dans ces légendes, le fréquent transfert de la voix parlée ou chantée à un objet qui en devient le support – lyre ou navette –, la promotion de figures à la fonction gnoséologique (les sirènes) ou prophétique (Cassandre), révèlent le lien intrinsèque qui s'instaure entre ces personnages et le « dict » poétique. Pour cette raison, le concept de « voix » – qui tend volontiers à la désarticulation comme « fabrique poétique » –, ne se limite pas à son sens premier, organique, mais s'étend à d'autres types d'expression comme le langage corporel et tout spécialement la danse ou la nage.De la sorte, mots, gestes ou objets définissent les éléments fondateurs d'une poétique en acte tout en explorant les codes de représentation du féminin.

Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader response, and the visual troubling of modern critical categories.

This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled Exile and Gender: Literature and the Press, edited by Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel, focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists as well as on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers. The contributions are in English or German. The seventeen contributions set out to both celebrate and critically examine the concepts of gender and sexuality in exile in a wide range of texts by well-known and lesser known authors, and throw light on many different aspects of gendered authorship and gendered relations. Our volume also looks at two bibliographic rarities: exile newspapers intended for and directed at a female readership.Dieser neue Band der Serie Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies mit dem Titel Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press, herausgegeben von Charmian Brinson und Andrea Hammel, enthält Beiträge zu den Werken exilierter Schriftstellerinnen und Journalistinnen und zu geschlechtsspezifischen Darstellungen in den Texten von Exilschriftstellern und Exilschriftstellerinnen. Die Beiträge sind entweder in deutscher oder englischer Sprache. Die siebzehn Beiträge haben zum Ziel, die Erfolge dieser SchriftstellerInnen zu feiern und die Gender- und Sexualitätskonzepte in den Werken von bekannten und weniger bekannten Schreibenden kritisch zu untersuchen. Weitere Themen sind das weibliche Schreiben und die Beziehungen der Geschlechter im Exil. Der Band bespricht auch bibliografische Neuheiten: Exilzeitschriften, die von und für Exilantinnen publiziert wurden.Contributors are: Hiltrud Arens, Montserrat Bascoy Lamelas, Wiebke von Bernstorff, Charmian Brinson, Rosa Marta Gomez Pato, Andrea Hammel, Birgit Maier-Katkin, Trinidad Marin Villora, Aine McGillicuddy, Katharina Prager, Ester Saletta, Rose Sillars, Jörg Thunecke, Christine Ujma, Benedikt Wolf, Amira Zmiric, Veronika Zwerger.

This volume deals with the commitment in the defense of egalitarian values by theatrical creators of the Spanish republican exile of 1939. Their innovative narrative and visual discourse offer models of masculinity and femininity that represent the change in gender paradigms derived from the rising leading role of women in the public sphere. The book approaches the potential differentiation of work produced by them in terms of sexual identity, especially in questions as maternity and conjugality, showing the position of society with regard to the professional women. It also explains the influence of the professional roles achieved by the republican Spanish women in the international scene –Mexico, France, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay– thanks to their use of modern artistic languages in works located between Vanguard and Tradition. They were also known for their work in Cinema, Radio, Television, Pedagogy and Translation. All these fields let women creators and managers continue with their artistic labor in the republican exile. Without forgetting the links with the country of origin, they were the best ambassadors of those artistic vanguards that so influenced the modernization of ideological and esthetic discourse in Western societies.Este volumen indaga sobre el compromiso en la defensa de valores igualitarios por parte de los creadores y creadoras teatrales del exilio republicano de 1939, cuyos innovadores discursos narrativos y visuales presentan unos modelos de masculinidad y feminidad representativos del cambio en los paradigmas de género acordes con el creciente protagonismo de las mujeres en la Esfera pública. Aborda la potencial diferenciación de sus realizaciones en relación con su identidad sexual, en especial en cuestiones como la maternidad y la conyugalidad, y la posición de la sociedad ante las mujeres profesionales. Trata asimismo de la influencia que tuvo la agencia femenina republicana en la escena internacional -México, Francia, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay-, gracias a la modernidad de sus lenguajes expresivos, entre la Vanguardia y la Tradición, y a su trabajo en el Cine, la Radio, la Televisión, la Pedagogía o la Traducción, que permitió a estas creadoras y gestoras continuar su labor artística durante su exilio. Sin olvidar sus vínculos con su país de origen, fueron los mejores embajadores de aquellas vanguardias históricas que tanto influyeron en la modernización de los discursos ideológicos y estéticos de las sociedades occidentales.

The application of feminist thought to the study of Italian culture is generating some of the most innovative work in the field today. This volume presents a range of essays which focus on the construction of gender in Italian literature as well as essays in feminist theory. The contributions reflect the current diversity of critical approaches available to those interrogating gender and offer interpretations of prose, poetry, theater, and the visual arts from Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and Galileo to contemporary Italian writers such as Carla Cerati and Dacia Maraini.

Those interested in both the present day role of woman and its historical evolution will find this work an informative and valuable introduction to the topic. Focusing on the actual position woman held in medieval society and on the surprisingly diverse representations of her position in literature and the visual arts, the six essays collected in this volume reflect concern with the development of her role from classical antiquity and oral, illiterative communities on the one hand, to Renaissance society on the other. Specialists in different fields examine the complexities of topics such as the direct relationship between the longevity of woman and the value society confers upon her; the changing functions of woman in illiterate, pre-literate, and literate society; the sophisticated portrayal of woman in the courtly romances; the implications of man's perception of woman as aesthetic and personal ideal bridging seemingly irreconcilable conflicts; woman's conscious assumption of an active role in the political and cultural life of her time; and the often caricatured, yet nonetheless sympathetic portrayal of woman in the margins of gothic manuscripts.The interdisciplinary approach followed in these essays allows the reader interested in a wholistic approach to trace concurrent developments over a long span of time from various perspectives. The approach also invites the attention of specialists in medieval social history, economics, art history, the heroic epic and the courtly romance, Petrarchism, and the transition from late medieval to early French Renaissance literature. The essays represent papers delivered at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies on The Role of the Woman in the Middle Ages.Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, the editor of this collection and Coordinator of the Sixth Annual Conference, is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

The essays in this volume represent the most recent thinking collected on the problematics of feminism and critical theory, engaging the question of the relationship between these terms and the differences within each in terms of the other. As a whole, this piece of an extended conversation within feminism suggests both the illusory comfort of generic demarcations and the discomforting power of the play of difference. The articles are theoretically wide-ranging and provocative, offering discussion of works by such authors as Nella Larsen, Frances Harper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.