In order to understand the lesbian/queer literary production as a defined category referring to the theories of the third sex by Ulrichs and Hirschfeld, the present investigation aims to examine the novels by Aimée Duc, ...

The founder and editor of “Freewoman”/“The New Freewoman”/“The Egoist”, Dora Marsden was one of the leading figures on the London cultural scene in the years before ww1. Mirroring the evolution of her thought, the shift ...

The purpose of this work is to investigate the image of the new woman in Spanish culture and literature of the Twenties and Thirties, through a wide and varied corpus that includes both the novel and various forms of ...

The paper investigates the relationship between Yourcenar’s monologue “Clytemnestre ou le crime” and Aeschylus’ tragedy “Agamemnon” in the literary representation of the sexual identity of the mythical queen Clytemnestra. ...

Every wave of the women’s movement seems to be accompanied by at least one wave of feminist ‘new women’s fiction’. Thus, the late 20th century daughters of the second-wavers were often associated with freche Frauen ...

The reception of Ibsen’s plays in England has been amply documented by scholars who have focused especially on how his work resonated with feminist writers and intellectuals championing the New Woman in late Victorian ...

Mela Hartwig’s story Aufzeichnungen einer Häßlichen, first published in 1928, is about a nurse who thinks she is unspeakably ugly and falls unhappily in love with her superior doctor. The protagonist tells her own story ...