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Gender and Its Intersections
Chapter 3 defines intersectionality as a necessary political practice and methodology to understand the interconnection of categories of oppression...
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The Fourth Estate in Petticoats
The Feminist Marguerite Durand Library’s archives (BMD) in Paris include the work of two significant journalists: Marguerite Durand and Jane Misme,...
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Is Steampunk Neo-Victorian?
Steampunk in its origin drew upon the history, literature, and material culture of the British Victorian Era. Novels such as The Difference Engine...
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Unsettling Coyote: Engaging with Indigenous Concepts of Care in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996)
This chapter takes to task settler engagements with Indigenous stories and characterisations through a lens of species relations by examining Gail...
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Introduction: Uncertain Identities
Based on a fluid sense of cultural, political and linguistic identity, “Irish poetry” is an essentially equivocal concept. Theinová’s approach...
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What a difference gender makes !
Considering the impact of the translators’ approach towards gender issues and how the translators’ ideology operates both in the translation process...
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How Was the New Woman Constructed in Revivalist Ireland and May Fourth China? A Comparison of Socialist and Feminist Writers Ding Ling and Eva Gore-Booth
This chapter compares the erasure of first-wave feminist and socialist writers Eva Gore-Booth in Revivalist Ireland and Ding Ling in May Fourth...
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Urban Environments in the Lesbian Canon
What could be called the lesbian canon of Norwegian twentieth century literature—Følelsers forvirring (1937) by Borghild Krane, Det hendte ingenting...
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Conclusion: Deeds and Words
This chapter concludes the book and argues the case for Constance Nina Boyle’s inclusion in the canon of early twentieth-century women’s writing in...
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Autofiktion und der Strukturwandel des Privaten
In international literature of the last decade, few genres have been as widely read or as intensely discussed as autofiction. Writers of autofiction...
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The Life of Breath: Contexts and Approaches
This introductory essay discusses the contexts in which breath has been considered in the last half-century in philosophy, feminism, the arts,...
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The Posthuman and Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand on Page and Screen
When I first wrote about Marlen Haushofer’s work in the 1990s she seemed to me a radical critic of patriarchal society, wrongly dismissed by second...
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Editors’ Conversation with Algerian-Italian Author and Translator Amal Bouchareb: Arab Women’s Cultural Production in Italy—Struggling Against Stereotypical Representations or Fitting into Neo-Orientalist/ White Feminist Paradigms?
Amal Bouchareb (1984–) is an Algerian novelist who resides and works in Italy. She is editor-in-chief of the first literary Arab magazine edited in...
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Inhabiting Cyberspace in India Theory, Perspectives, and Challenges
This book gathers a selection of essays on the multifaceted aspects of cyber culture in India, both online and offline. It presents an in-depth...
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Magical Realism and Older Age: García Márquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004) and Allende’s The Japanese Lover (2015)
Magical realism has become a powerful signifier to express the uniqueness of Latin American culture produced from the 1940s onward. Magical Realism...
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Transforming Love: Critical and Religious Discourses in Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love
Drawing on Shields’s essay “The Love Story,” Brenda Beckman-Long argues, in “Transforming Love: Critical and Religious Discourses in Carol Shields’s...
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Dance, Institution, Abolition
Antiracist commitments—in medieval studies and elsewhere—are incomplete without a commitment to abolitionist principles. These principles involve the...
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The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin Science, Fiction, Ethics
The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guinexplores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge...
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From Art History to Life Writing: Anna Banti’s Feminist Resonance
This chapter looks at art historian and author Anna Banti’s (1895–1985) writings on historical women artists as a feminist intervention in art...
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Introduction: Walking into the Future
In her campaigning years, Nina Boyle was a maverick who sat somewhere in between the different political wings of the suffrage movement, she resisted...