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, ...

In line with the great changes that took place after World War I, in the societies of German-speaking countries women achieved important goals in the struggle for emancipation. Yet, once legal rights were gained, women had ...

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 ...

This paper aims to explore what emerges from the collation of the Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, and the episodes of Romeo x Juliet (2007), the Japanese anime inspired by the tragedy of the “star-crossed lovers”; ...

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 ...

Virginia Woolf ’s novel Orlando (1928) impressively anticipates that becoming and being a woman (or a man) are cultural processes of inscription and internalization of gendered roles. Orlando miraculously changes their sex ...

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 ...

This article examines the collection of short stories Irres Wetter (2000) by contemporary author Kathrin Röggla with the aim of focusing on the narrative and linguistic strategies with which the writer represents a ...