RSS 1.0International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal Vol. 16 (2014)
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The Ruling Discourse on Proper Womanhood in the Hungarian Parliament
Iren Annus
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Graphic Narratives of Women in War: Identity Construction in the Works of Zeina Abirached, Miriam Katin, and Marjane Satrapi
Eszter Szép
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The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives
Leila Aouadi
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Arab Women in the Gulf and the Narrative of Change: the Case of Qatar
Krystyna Urbisz Golkowska
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Narratives of Arab Anglophone Women and the Articulation of a Major Discourse in a Minor Literature
Dalal Sarnou
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‘In Drag’: Performativity and Authenticity in Zadie Smith’s NW
Beatriz Pérez Zapata
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How to Represent Female Identity on the Restoration Stage: Actresses (Self) Fashioning
Raquel Serrano González, Raquel; Laura Martínez-García
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Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Literature Classics and their English Versions
Anna Wing Bo Tso
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Book Reviews
Justyna Stępień
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Book Reviews
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Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Literature Classics and their English Versions
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)Cross-dressing, as a cultural practice, suggests gender ambiguity and allows freedom of self expression. Yet, it may also serve to reaffirm ideological stereotypes and the binary distinctions between male and female, masculine ... -
How to Represent Female Identity on the Restoration Stage: Actresses (Self) Fashioning
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)Despite the shifting ideologies of gender of the seventeenth century, the arrival of the first actresses caused deep social anxiety: theatre gave women a voice to air grievances and to contest, through their own bodies, ... -
‘In Drag’: Performativity and Authenticity in Zadie Smith’s NW
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)Zadie Smith’s latest novel, NW, presents a multiverse in which multiplicity is driven into homogeneization by the forces of those dominant discourses that attempt to suppress the category of the “Other.” This paper focuses ... -
Narratives of Arab Anglophone Women and the Articulation of a Major Discourse in a Minor Literature
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)“It is important to stress that a variety of positions with respect to feminism, nation, religion and identity are to be found in Anglophone Arab women’s writings. This being the case, it is doubtful whether, in discussing ... -
Arab Women in the Gulf and the Narrative of Change: the Case of Qatar
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)The dramatic transformation of the Arabian Gulf since the discovery of petroleum resources has called for a new perspective on the situation of women in the region. Qatar is an example of fast-paced industrialization, ... -
The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and ... -
Graphic Narratives of Women in War: Identity Construction in the Works of Zeina Abirached, Miriam Katin, and Marjane Satrapi
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)By applying terminology from trauma theory and a methodological approach from comics scholarship, this essay discusses three graphic autobiographies of women. These are A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached (trans. ... -
The Ruling Discourse on Proper Womanhood in the Hungarian Parliament
(Lodz University Press, 2014-11)Starting with a debate in September 2012 on the incorporation of domestic violence as a distinct offence in Hungary’s new Criminal Code, the issue of gender and proper womanhood has regularly re-surfaced in statements made ...