Gender Studies
Journal Data
| Type | BOOK_SERIES |
|---|---|
| Publisher | De Gruyter (DE) |
| ISSN | 1583-980X / 2286-0134 |
| Scopus | 21100863627 |
| OpenAlex | S2737805220 |
| MAG | 2737805220 |
| Website | https://api.elsevier.com/content/serial/title/issn/1583-980X |
| Total publications | 139 |
| Coverage period | 2012 - 2025 |
| Country | RO |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access • Diamond OA |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed • Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 5 |
| Impact factor | 0.109 |
| SJR | 0.121 (Q4) |
| SNIP | 0.287 |
| CiteScore | 0.5 |
| h-index | 1 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.4545 |
This venue is explicitly titled "Gender Studies," which is a cognate social science and humanities field listed as relevant. It regularly publishes work on gender, sexuality, and social relations that intersects with anthropological research
Gender Studies · American and British Literature Analysis · Cinema and Media Studies · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies
We Gained Our Independence, But we Lost Our Mothers: Documenting Post-Communist Female Migration through Home Videos in Otilia Babara’s Love is not an Orange
Constructed as a collection of interlaced home videos arranged into a narrative that explores the development and legacy of post-communist female migration, Otilia Babara’s documentary Love Is Not an Orange represents a veracious and profoundly emotional investigation of gendered transnational practices. The film not only delivers intimate accounts from the lives of several families affected by female migration from Moldova into Western Europe fo…
But What are You, Mama: Gendered Migration, Epistemic Injustice, and Feminist Resistance in Domnica Rădulescu’s Dream in a Suitcase (2022)
Domnica Rădulescu’s (1961-) memoir, Dream in a Suitcase, is about her journey from communist Romania to the United States. Without bothering much about ‘political correctness,’ Rădulescu offers her readers an intimate account of her life that is filled with gendered and epistemic dimensions of displacement. By critically engaging with the memoir, we intend to discuss how Rădulescu navigates and negotiates the oppressive patriarchal structures of …
Ardhanareeshwara’ – The Lord Who is Half Woman: Breaking the Gender Binary through Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Gender Studies
Ardhanareeshwara, the composite form of Shiva and Parvati, embodies the inseparability of masculine and feminine principles, challenging fixed gender binaries. This paper examines the representation of Ardhanareeshwara in the Kerala Mural Painting tradition through the intersecting lenses of indigenous aesthetic frameworks and contemporary gender theory. The study traces the mythological and philosophical foundations of this form by drawing on te…
Public Discourses about/by Women Migrants and Refugees from Central and Eastern Europe: In)Visibility and (dis)Empowerment
The article, an extensive introduction to this issue’s special section on public discourses about/by women migrants from Central and Eastern Europe, outlines the current scholarly debates as well as the main theoretical and methodological approaches to gender in the context of transnational migration practices, with a focus on labour migration, forced migration and exile. It discusses the core aspects of an intersectionality-driven, social constr…
Documenting Silences - An Ethnographic Inquiry into Gender-Based Violence among Migrant Agricultural Labours in Maharashtra
The paper is an ethnographic account of women migrant sugarcane cutters and their negotiations for survival in a labour market shaped by neoliberal forms of agriculture and embedded patriarchal structures, as well as of their agency over their bodies. The investigation explores the invisibility of structural violence perpetuated by systems rooted in social inequalities, injustices, and coercion. This violence is legitimized and rendered “natural”…
When Queer is Normalised: Recognising Representations of Homonormativity in Indian Audiovisual Brand Campaigns
Since the 2010s, LGBTQ+ representation in Indian audiovisual advertising has grown significantly. However, it is crucial to evaluate whether these campaigns exhibit the homonormative patterns previously identified by scholars in Western media. This paper examines how advertisers use homonormative strategies to make LGBTQ+ people acceptable to mainstream audiences while promoting their products. The analysis reveals that these campaigns downplay q…
The Visibility of Ukrainian Women Refugees in the Romanian Public Sphere. Representations and Modes of Engagement
The article examines media representations of Ukrainian women refugees in the Romanian public sphere, focusing on their discursive construction from the perspective of audience engagement. Relying on a theoretical framework centred on performative media discourse and the discursive construction of representations, the article explores a heterogeneous corpus comprised of televised news stories, broadcast at different times during the Russo-Ukraini…
Rewriting Herstory: Women from Micro-Histories to South African Fiction
The study examines the writings of three South African novelists (Zakes Mda, Yvette Christiansë, and Zoë Wicomb) who have turned to history in order to construct the female protagonists of their novels. The female figures brought from history to literature are portraits painted based on historical records combined with fiction, emphasizing the fact that the roots of contemporary realities run deep in the past. Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (20…
Resilient Adaptation or Reclaimed Agency? Ukrainian Women’s Negotiation of Integration in Romania
This paper adds to the growing body of literature investigating Ukrainian women refugees’ framing of their experience as forced migrants. Using semi-structured interviews with 11 Ukrainian women refugees currently residing in Romania, we explore how these women navigate the complexities of adaptation and integration in Romania. We examine their perception of refugee status, negotiation of belonging to various transnational social spaces and probl…
Not One of Them: Exile, Colonial Memory, and Identity in Banine’s Parisian Days
This article examines the memoir Parisian Days by Azerbaijani French writer Banine, situating it within discourses of exile, gender, and postcolonial identity. Writing from the geographic and cultural periphery of the former Russian Empire, Banine offers a unique lens on the Russian émigré experience in interwar Paris. Her reflections reveal the persistent imperial hierarchies that shape the diaspora and foreground the complex negotiations of ide…
Visual Dialogues on Gender: Women’s Perspectives from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar
Art is inspiring reflection on the relationships among tradition, modernity, and gender identity in the vibrant Middle East. Three artists, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Sarah Abu Abdallah, and Bouthayna Al Muftah, use their art to challenge gender norms and traditions in their respective communities. Their artistic methods are examined, as is their approach to gender norms and possibilities in their home countries. They transcend traditional gender discour…
Female Gender Marginality in the Imperial Roman World: Affinity Between Women and Slaves in their Shared Stereotypes and Penetrability
The concepts of sex and gender existed in the imperial Roman world. Although there existed a sliding scale of sex and gender, gender was largely pre-determined at the time of one’s birth based on one’s sexual anatomy and concurrently, gender acculturation of the male and the female began. It was a conventional notion that women were marginal compared to freeborn men by the virtue of gender. Although the Romans improved the legal independence of f…
When Children Look at Us
“Hideous Kinky” presents the story of an English mother travelling in Morocco with her two daughters. As expected, this exotic journey is about the woman’s pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Less expected, the story is narrated by her youngest daughter who constantly denies the story to the reader. Starting from the issue of unreliable homodiegetic narration, this paper proposes to analyse the effects of missing information in the text, and the …
Should I Stay or Should I Go?” The Promise of Europe and Female Identity in Francesca (2009)
Starting from the premise that intra-EU migration has generated a repertoire of representations, narratives and stances in Romanian public imagination, within a transnational context, the present article explores an area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date: Romanian New Cinema films that tackle this theme. The analysis focuses on “Francescaˮ (Bobby Păunescu, 2009), a film centred on a female character who is on the verge of deci…
Grieving those Who Still Live: Loss Experienced by Parents of Transgender Children
Transgender identity can be defined as the self-awareness of a discrepancy between the assigned sex at birth and the personal gender identity of an individual. This study assumed the constructionist perspective, focused on the influence of culture on sex-typing and the representations of gender in child development. This research considers how parents of transgender children emotionally handled the transition. Being faced with a child’s transgend…
Empowering Women Through Entrepreneurship: A Case Study in East Java, Indonesia
The article analyzes the practices of two NGOs aiming to empower women through entrepreneurship in the province of East Java with the capital city Surabaya, Indonesia. Both NGOs have similar goals: to improve the well-being of women as well as to empower them in their households, communities and businesses; however, they differ in methodologies. Thus, it is thought-provoking to compare the ways and means applied by both NGOs to empower women. The…
The Witch(ES) of Aiaia: Gender, Immortality and the Chronotope in Madeline Miller’s Circe
This article explores Madeline Miller’s Circe from the perspective of Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the inseparability of space and time in fiction. The article focuses on the chronotopes of the road, the idyll and the threshold in the novel, and how these intersect with its themes of gender and immortality. The island of Aiaia acts as a threshold, transforming all who cross it. Circe’s life on the island, however, is a repetitive idyll; o…
Lady into Fox (David Garnett, 1922): Un-Weaving a Tailor-Made Gender or Re-Taming the Shrew
One day, while going for a walk with her husband, the young Mrs Tebrick turns into a fox. At first, they both try to keep things the way they were. The lady-fox dresses, drinks tea and plays cards with her husband until she breaks herself free of conventions and opts for a wild life in the forest which Mr Tebrick apparently accepts, claiming an unchanged marital love. One wonders though whether this metamorphosis sincerely unwinds the tailor-made…
Power and Ridicule – Elena CeauȘescu in Communist Humour
Although one of the most influential figures of Romanian Communism, Elena Ceaușescu has been the subject of a rather limited literature exploring her historical figure. I intend to revisit the political humour of Romanian communism in order to reveal the manners and strategies employed by this type of folklore in affirming the hyperbolized clichés that defined the dictator’s wife in the public mind of that age. I also intend to bring into discuss…
Constructing Womanhood in Zimbabwean Literature: Noviolet Bulawayo and Petina Gappah
Literature written in English in the former British colonies of Southern Africa has attracted the public’s attention after the publication of Michael Chapman’s “Southern African Literaturesˮ (1996). The paper analyses the writings of two Zimbabwean authors - NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) and Petina Gappah – taking into account African feminist discourses
The Feminisation of Tradition. The Case of the Ukrainian Minority in Poland
Research on the Ukrainian minority in Poland was conducted from a feminocentric perspective to break the masculinised perception of this minority. Multiple data in the research have demonstrated that over a span of three generations Ukrainian families have turned from patriarchal into matriarchal ones. Currently it is women who preserve and invent tradition, both in the private and the public sphere. This is an effect of the cultural change and o…
Fan Culture and Masculinity: Identity Construction of Persib Supporters
Linking the local practices that are used to build an apparently shared identity and generate personal and group attachment towards ʽPersibʼ, a local football club in West Java Indonesia, we examine ʽbobotohʼ that use football and football fan clubs as means of creating an in-group–out-group identity. We examine concepts of fandom, identity construction and masculinity to demonstrate how the bias becomes a unifying element that can provoke confli…
Advertisements for Children’s Products in Women’s Magazines: Traits of the Discourse
Based upon a corpus analysis of the advertisements for children’s products in a 2017 British issue of Glamour , a women’s magazine, the article attempts to identify a pattern of basic cultural ideas and images which advertisers speculate in their attempt to persuade, as symptomatic of cultural values at a given time. Thus, the objectification of human interaction or instilling the urge to compete are but a few
Public and Private Lives: Judith Butler’s Grief and the Loss of Black Self
By looking at Butler’s theories on grief and mourning, I focus on her concept of ecstasy, or the state of being outside of one’s self, which illustrates the dependency individuals have on social norms as well as the vulnerability such a system of recognition entails. Using this framework, I discuss how the private and the public spheres can construct public bodies. If this happens, individuals can have little say over how their bodies are sociall…
Determinants of Early Marriage Among Women: An Experience from Rural Bangladesh
This study investigates the socioeconomic determinants of early marriage among the women living in rural Bangladesh through an empirical cross-sectional research. The data were collected primarily from a sample of 576 ever married women using a semi-structured interview schedule. Results show that more than half of the respondents (58.3%) were early married and the mean age of the first marriage was 16.8. Both in bivariate and multivariate setups…
We Gained Our Independence, But we Lost Our Mothers: Documenting Post-Communist Female Migration through Home Videos in Otilia Babara’s Love is not an Orange
Constructed as a collection of interlaced home videos arranged into a narrative that explores the development and legacy of post-communist female migration, Otilia Babara’s documentary Love Is Not an Orange represents a veracious and profoundly emotional investigation of gendered transnational practices. The film not only delivers intimate accounts from the lives of several families affected by female migration from Moldova into Western Europe fo…
But What are You, Mama: Gendered Migration, Epistemic Injustice, and Feminist Resistance in Domnica Rădulescu’s Dream in a Suitcase (2022)
Domnica Rădulescu’s (1961-) memoir, Dream in a Suitcase, is about her journey from communist Romania to the United States. Without bothering much about ‘political correctness,’ Rădulescu offers her readers an intimate account of her life that is filled with gendered and epistemic dimensions of displacement. By critically engaging with the memoir, we intend to discuss how Rădulescu navigates and negotiates the oppressive patriarchal structures of …
The Visibility of Ukrainian Women Refugees in the Romanian Public Sphere. Representations and Modes of Engagement
The article examines media representations of Ukrainian women refugees in the Romanian public sphere, focusing on their discursive construction from the perspective of audience engagement. Relying on a theoretical framework centred on performative media discourse and the discursive construction of representations, the article explores a heterogeneous corpus comprised of televised news stories, broadcast at different times during the Russo-Ukraini…
Resilient Adaptation or Reclaimed Agency? Ukrainian Women’s Negotiation of Integration in Romania
This paper adds to the growing body of literature investigating Ukrainian women refugees’ framing of their experience as forced migrants. Using semi-structured interviews with 11 Ukrainian women refugees currently residing in Romania, we explore how these women navigate the complexities of adaptation and integration in Romania. We examine their perception of refugee status, negotiation of belonging to various transnational social spaces and probl…
Not One of Them: Exile, Colonial Memory, and Identity in Banine’s Parisian Days
This article examines the memoir Parisian Days by Azerbaijani French writer Banine, situating it within discourses of exile, gender, and postcolonial identity. Writing from the geographic and cultural periphery of the former Russian Empire, Banine offers a unique lens on the Russian émigré experience in interwar Paris. Her reflections reveal the persistent imperial hierarchies that shape the diaspora and foreground the complex negotiations of ide…
She’s the Man: Gender Dynamics in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
More than any other Shakespearean play, Twelfth Night demonstrates hogender can be performed and impersonated with the use of voice, costume and mannerisms. The play explores the relationship between gender and desire, allowing us to understand the complex ways in which Shakespeare responded imaginatively to sex, gender and sexuality as determinants of human identity. The article also discusses various movie versions of the play
The Role of Gender in Verbal Disagreement: A Study of Disagreement Strategies Employed by Hungarian Undergraduate Students
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a study on the interplay of gender and disagreement strategies employed by Hungarian undergraduate students. The data for analysis is a corpus of oral face-to-face dyadic interactions; the methodology makes use of both qualitative and quantitative tools and involves identifying disagreement strategies on the basis of previous research as well as patterns emerging from the corpus. The results of th…
Violence is Common and a Daily Event; in this Place Her Dog Has More Respect than us”: A Study on Cycle of Violence Faced by Women in Mexico
This paper sets out to explore the violence against women is a new form femicide taking into consideration the case of trafficked women. Once women arrived at their destination, suffer various kinds of never-ending violence and exploitation. Thus, in this article we have defined and demonstrated how the trafficking of women constitutes a new form of “ femicide ”. The analytical section of the paper is based on interviews with one hundred and ten …
Lilies on the Land – The Forgotten Women’s Land Army of World War II – A Documentary Play
This paper centres on a play directed by Sonia Ritter and produced by the Lions part that portrays an extraordinary event in Britain’s recent history - the Women’s Land Army of World War II. It is based on real evidence given in hundreds of letters and interviews with former Land Girls. The anecdotes of their shared experience and strenuous work are presented by a female quartet - Margie, Peggy, Poppy and Vera - in a sparkling, captivating and em…
Ecofeminist Study of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes in 1843
The present paper concerns itself with a great American feminist-writer Margaret Fuller. It is a critique of patriarchal industrial society. It is an expression of ecofeminist’s concern for environmental degradation triggered by rapid industrial and technological growth. It deals with her encounter with the external world, and her responses to the rapid material development in America. The article unfolds her concerns for humanity in general by e…
Readings of the Question of Rights in the Merchant of Venice--A Romanian Perspective
It is the main aim of this essay to analyse the modulations and inflections introduced in the treatment of law in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in the process of cross-cultural transmission and dissemination of the play in the nineteenth century. Focus will be placed on the shift of emphasis from issues related to the law in Shakespeare’s text to issues related to rights in two Romanian adaptations derived from French and German texts
Lady Audley’s Sphinxian Mystery
The present study is based on the analysis of the themes of madness and monstrosity, depicted through the female character, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s well-known Lady Audley’s Secret. It discusses the elusive nature of madness and monstrosity that may be perceived as attributes of reader, writer and characters alike; it also considers the possibility of ‘madness’ as subversive survival strategy and/or escape from narrow patriarchal, political, s…
Metaphors and Ideology – Gendered Metaphors in Economic Discourse
Under the theoretical wing of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Metaphor Analysis we deal with one specific aspect of economic discourse in English in an attempt to draw attention to the distinctively gendered metaphor of SLENDERNESS on which the concept of the ideal company is based today. The analysis is based on the notion of downsizing and metaphorical expressions that give linguistic voice to the LEAN IS HEALTHY metaphor. Our aim is to…
The Position of Women in Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
The aim of this paper is to analyse women’s state in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day . In both novels, women struggle with the world they live in because of their womanhood. Their situation can be discussed briefly in terms of Gayatri Spivak’s famous essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Look at Me!” Performing the Body and Self on Stage
The paper aims to explore some exemplary pieces of dramatic literature from antiquity and the Renaissance and especially from modern and postmodern works such as The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman and A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White by Adrienne Kennedy through the lens of body, disability and gender studies. While the paper mainly focuses on these three plays, it is not restricted to them. The pi…
Patterns and Representations of Shakespearean Love: Hubris, Infatuation, Agape in Hamlet
The more conceptually elusive love has proven to be, the more it has whetted humanity’s appetite to try to narrow it down. Could one say that Shakespeare is one of the few personalities that managed not only to exemplify almost all recurrent patterns of love, but also to recreate them, in his case, within his plays? Is love weak, or is it so strong that it gives life to a character, only to overwhelm and destroy him/her later? Are there any arche…
The Child as Other in Shakespeare’s Plays
Although there are not many children in Shakespeare’s plays, his treatment of them is quite unique, both for his own time and today. Shakespeare’s children are authentic selves who frequently possess extraordinary intellect and vision. Shakespeare’s introduction of child characters as victims highlights his implicit condemnation of violence as embodied in people in power
Conceptualising Time and Space in Winterson’s the Passion and Written on the Body
Time and space are major themes in Winterson’s novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the way these concepts are analysed from the perspective of two of her novels, The Passion and Written on the Body . Winterson succeeds in creating and conferring new values on these concepts in her novels, thus allowing them a different interpretation
Postmodern Romance and the Illusion-Making Tendencies of Historiography
The paper proposes a reading of romance in terms of postmodernism by establishing a connection between feminism and postmodernism’s questioning of historical and cultural representation. The aim is to reveal how history, no longer governed by the urge to find the “truth”, gives prominence to the uncertain, the extraordinary, the fantastic, which are the main ingredients of romance
Conscious Inclusion of Women Musicians
This paper discusses the vast divide between performance opportunities and income earned by male and female musicians. Although female singers are quite visible on the world’s stages, few female instrumentalists are employed on a regular basis and even fewer women composers have their music commissioned for programs or films funded by private and public monies. Several proficient female jazz musicians are identified, and how and why women are omi…
Fashioning the Queen - Elizabeth I as Patron of Translations
The present paper aims to explore the role of Queen Elizabeth I as literary patron and dedicatee of translations by focusing on the dedication that precedes Geoffrey Fenton’s rendering of Francesco Guicciardini’s Storia d’Italia. Fenton’s extensive dedication to the Queen is extremely revealing of the manner in which the system of patronage was understood in Elizabethan England. Moreover, it facilitates our understanding of the translator’s role …
Why Feminist Critical Literacy Matters: The Reorganisation of Capitalist Economies and the Significance of Socially Engaged Literature for Young Adults
The latest capitalist restructuring has resulted in new conditions of employment, seriously affecting possibilities for people’s self-realization. Women have been hurt the most and face an increasing feminisation of poverty. This paper foregrounds the importance of literary socialisation in preparing young people to accept or reject neoliberal gendered scripts
Metaphorical Mirrors and Subverting Selves in Adrienne Kennedy’s One-Act Plays
Beginning her career in the 1960s, Adrienne Kennedy was one of the most influential writers of the period. Her plays subverted both Western and African American theatre. Although like her contemporaries she reacted to the political events of the period, in contrast with them she presented racial issues in a non-realistic mode. Her plays exemplify the re-theatricalisation of the African American stage
The Modern Woman and Women’s Emancipation in 19 th Century English and Romanian Comedies
The construction of feminine characters in nineteenth century English and Romanian comedies reflects the changes that the two societies were experiencing, especially the fact that women were no longer confined to domestic life. The plays feature women assimilating the latest fashions and lifestyles, their aspirations to change their status and their steps towards emancipation
Nineteenth Century Romanian Public Space: The Final Frontier for Women
“Far from being unitary or monolithic or autonomous things, cultures actually assume more elements, alterities, differences, than they consciously exclude.” (Said 15). Building on gender studies discourse, the present paper builds on Said’s view of cultural experiences at large as stated in the quotation above and attempts to illustrate what was at stake in the (trans)cultural relationship between space, place and textuality in the making of the …
Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies
Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters
Public and Private Imperatives
The paper deals with the concepts of public and private spheres as defined from Plato and Aristotle to more recent sources. The two issues are considered as being distinct from each other. The link between them is mediated by education
What did the Enlightenment Lead to: Women’s Activism, Women’s Movement or Feminism? A Case-Study of France and the Usa
The Enlightenment triggered different reactions among women in Europe (the most illustrious case is France) and in the USA. The present paper analyses these reactions kindled by the Enlightenment in the two abovementioned geopolitical and cultural realms. It also analyses the development of certain social movements triggered by these reactions. Therefore, the epicentral question that I will attempt to answer is: what did the Enlightenment lead to…
Conflicting Views of Women in Hawthorne
The present paper focuses on the nature of women in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work. There is an obviously divided way of thinking about gender here and we will try to highlight the extremes and the inbetween position, as far as the typology of feminine characters is concerned
The Renaissance Midwife
The paper deals with the delineation of the subversiveness-ridden career of the midwife in history and with the specific circumstances under which this privileged hypostasis of womanhood undergoes major changes during the 17 th century. The main focus of the presentation is the female engagement with the public space during the Renaissance and the major impact of the emergent male empirical science - the scientific paradigm of New Science - upon …