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Gender in Cross-Cultural Encounters: Orientalism and Self-Orientalisation in Chinese-Language Young Adult Fiction
In this article, we read and analyse selected young adult novels by Chinese-German author Wei Cheng that address the dilemmas faced by young female...
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Not Another Book About Male Violence Against Women!
Thus, by using language as an entry point into the study of media and society and, through an analysis of the representation of male violence against...
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CONCLUSION Joining the Dots
At the beginning of this book, I said that it was going to be about an age-old social problem—the (mis)representation of violence against women in...
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#metoo: The Good, the Bad, and the Backlash
I start this discussion in this chapter with an outline of the key points within the #metoo debate, looking at what, according to various scholars,...
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Syntactic feminitives in Russian: a case study of an online Russian language radical feminist group
This paper analyzes the use of alternative feminine agreement in constructions with an interrogative-relative pronoun kto , indefinite pronouns kto-to ,...
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Defining the Field
In this chapter, I will provide a discussion of what constitutes sexual violence from a feminist, rather than legal, perspective. In the first part...
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Empowering Green Girls: An Ecofeminist Reading of Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower and The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus
To children, nature is not only the shelter, savior, and life-maintaining force, but also the impressive world that they are involuntarily attracted...
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Theoretical Underpinning
The premise of this book is the intersection between language ideologies and language usage in South African television. This chapter aims to connect...
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From Fritzl to #metoo: What Has Changed?
Following on from the previous chapter, here I will focus on assessing what changed in the post #metoo era in the representation of violence against...
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Differences and Analogies: Chinese Diasporic Literature
Since most Chinese immigrants who have come from China and spread around the world, moving from the center to the periphery, they are often called...
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The Sexually Abnormal Male Asylum-Seeker: Regimes of Normativities in a Context of Free-Spiritedness
The aim of this chapter is to investigate the emergence of the characterological figure of the sexually abnormal male asylum-seeker in Denmark. For...
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Decolonizing African Studies Approaches to Research on African Women in Hip-Hop
This chapter examines research on women in Hip Hop in Africa, which is largely carried out by African Studies scholars. The study suggests that a...
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Addressing the Ideologies of Study Abroad: Views from the U.S. Context
Study abroad research consistently documents gaps between expectations and realities from multiple perspectives in terms of numerous outcomes....
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Emerging Patterns
The previous chapter discussed the most common collocates of rape across the entire 2008–2019 time frame, showing which themes were strongly anchored...
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Translation or Transliteration?: ‘Gender’ Troubles in Russia
Gender, as a word and as a concept, reached Russia only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and nearly as soon as it was translated—or,...
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Just How Radical Is Radical: Children’s Picture Books and Trans Youth
This paper analyses the Australian children’s picture books The Gender Fairy , by Jo Hirst and Libby Wirt, and Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About...
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A Comparative Study of the Human-Nature Relationship in The Fate of Fausto and I’ll Sow My Hands in the Garden
This article contends that the representation of human-nature relationship in children’s literature can map onto its gender politics through a...
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Gender Representation in Translation: Examining the Resha** of a Female Child’s Image in the English Translation of the Children’s Novel Bronze and Sunflower
This article explores the translation of gender representation in the English version of the Chinese children’s novel Bronze and Sunflower (Cao in...
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No Quiet Place—Breaking the Silence, Speaking the Unspeakable, or: How Cultural Critique Thrives on a Paradox
“Breaking the silence” and “speaking the unspeakable” are central topoi of cultural critique, even as feminist theory or research on cultural memory,...
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“We’ll See what we can do together”: Time, Collaboration and Kinship in The Children of Green Knowe & Tom’s Midnight Garden
This article examines two time-slip narratives of the 1950s – Tom’s Midnight Garden , and The Children of Green Knowe – arguing that their...