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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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Women Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity
This chapter argues that in The Game (1967), The Biographer’s Tale (2000) and The Little Black Book of Stories (2003), A. S. Byatt constructs and...
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Sexual Violence as Class Conflict: Seizing Patriarchal Privilege in Early Modern English Drama
Rape and other forms of sexual violence are frequent motifs in early modern English drama and poetry, but despite many studies of the topic, there...
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Dido and Laura in Carthage: White purity, epidermal race, and sexual violence in Petrarch’s Africa
Scholarship in premodern critical race studies has emphasised the role of oppositional colour metaphors, the entanglement of religious and somatic...
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Materializing Difference: Visions of Subjectivity in the Intermedia Works of Ketty La Rocca
This chapter focuses on poet and artist Ketty La Rocca (1938–1976), who in 1970s Italy, still dominated by patriarchal institutions, felt the urgency...
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Becoming-Perverse: Pornography and Queer Sexual Equality in Zhiguai
In this chapter, we explore the more explicit depiction and discussion of sexuality in zhiguai, focusing upon an episode from Songzhuxuan’s...
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Not an Easy Read for “Normal” “Colored” People: Conversations on Shange’s and Rooney’s Literatures of Sexual Citizenship
This chapter examines Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf and Sally Rooney’s...
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Narrated Rand: HUAC, Engraved Invitations and the Real of Sexual Difference
This chapter draws on Rand’s testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), her description of the individualism of one of the...
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Unauthorized Sex?: Sex, Power, and Privilege in the Campus Novel
This chapter considers the sexed reputations of the university—both the notorious prevalence of sexual assaults against college-aged women, but also...
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A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women Fictions, Histories, Myths
This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction....
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Judging sexy women in late medieval France
Blindfolded Lady Justice with her scales rarely features in modern representations of medieval European justice. Instead, it is the female sexual...
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Out of the Frying Pan
This chapter explores Boyle’s first novel. It discusses its relationship with its parent texts, including Henry James’ What Maisie Knew (1897) and...
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“Through the Agency of Bees”: Charles Darwin, John Lubbock, and the Secret Lives of Plants and People
The 1860s into the 1880s were auspicious decades for the bee in British science, and Charles Darwin and John Lubbock, Darwin’s neighbor and fellow...
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Poststructuralism and the “Death” of the White Male
This chapter focuses on the effects of poststructuralist thinking on the analysis of white heterosexual masculinity. In questioning fixed racialized...
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Sex, Death, and the Language of Sociobiology
This chapter explores the (seemingly unlikely) evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction, as elaborated in Sex and Evolution (1975). Williams...
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The Workings of Desire
For the New Woman, removing constraints on a range of subjects and behaviors was a marked priority. Among the contested areas were traditional...
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Sex Work in Caribbean Fiction
Towards the end of Dany Laferrière’s Vers la sud (2006)—published in English as Heading South in a translation by Wayne Grady in 2009—Missie Abel, a...
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Masculinity and Religion: Navid Kermani
This chapter considers religious and ethnic difference, as manifested by Islam in Germany, in relation to hegemonic masculinity. It first focuses on...
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Bongo Fleva: Its Lyrics, “Inappropriate” Content, Source, and Possible Harm
There had been a talk among several adults in Tanzania that bongo fleva music increasingly spoils the young generation due to its ever-increasing...
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Domesticating the Wilderness, a Woman’s Mission: Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
This chapter discusses Jane Smiley’s All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton as an account of a pioneer woman’s life, relating it closely to...