<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">At the Ramsay’s Scottish summer home, where guests are promised an illusory trip to the lighthouse, Lily Briscoe, a post-impressionist painter, indulges into portraying Mrs Ramsay. Throughout the novel, the portrait changes forms, starting as a moving tree in the first section ‘The Window’ and ending, after Mrs Ramsay’s death, as a single line in the very last page of the novel where Lily Briscoe sees it as completed. The “passage into abstraction” satisfies her for she executes the vision she had. The plot follows the same scheme, unfolding through shifting perspectives and oscillating between the figurative and abstract stream of consciousness of each character. It thus reflects Lily’s unstable portrait and paves the way for a deterritorialised writing. This paper will analyse how the “actes graphiques” (the drawn as well as the written items) mutate into an abstract – and therefore non- or a-gendered – line in order to release the un-articulated and un-lived antimainstream love between Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay.</abstract>

The “One-Line-Portraitˮ in <italic>to the Lighthouse</italic> by Virginia Woolf: Freeing the Counter-Norms

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Virginia Woolf’s <underline>Mrs Dalloway</underline> — published in 1925 — not only represents a major work regarding its literary techniques during the years of British Modernism, but also constitutes a critique of the social system of the post-war years, which was experiencing a change regarding the strict Victorian stereotypes of gender. Social status linked to sartorial fashion is a recurring element in the novel when considering these configurations. Woolf vindicates through different characters’ reflections a rearrangement of femininity and masculinity.</abstract>

Shaping Gender: Femininity and Masculinity Through Sartorial Fashion in Virginia Woolf’s <italic>Mrs Dalloway</italic>

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This work studies the behaviour of the protagonist of <underline>The History of the Nun: or, The Fair Vow- Breaker</underline> (1689) to investigate both what motivates her decisions (from pious woman to murderer) and what the objectives of her author may be. The conclusion reached is that female agency and the transgressive desire developed by Aphra Behn presented a new conception of femininity. Behn challenges the social contract and subverts seventeenth century conceptions of gender. Through Isabella’s behaviour Behn challenges established feminine morality, postulating a new role for women within society. The implication is that the act of breaking a holy vow, and the courage shown by a woman determined to take responsibility for her own life and make her own decisions in society, inevitably ends in tragedy and disaster.</abstract>

”Murderess of Two Husbands”: Female Agency as Female Loyalty in <italic>the History of the Nun</italic>

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">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 socially signified. To show this, I use the case of Black women in the USA, where systemic oppression constantly draws their bodies into the public’s eye.</abstract>

Public and Private Lives: Judith Butler’s Grief and the Loss of Black Self

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The publication of <underline>The Garden of Eden</underline> in 1986 opened the gates of Hemingway’s exegesis to gender criticism, the result being a re-evaluation of the female presence in a traditional literary work devoted to the literary traditions of the personality and adventurous life of the writer that challenged the previous four decades of critical appraisal that insisted on what Broer and Holland called “superficial or misguided interpretations of Hemingway’s treatment of women and gender”. Our essay demonstrates this new approach to Hemingway’s work, with examples from “Cat in the Rain” and <underline>The Garden of Eden</underline>.</abstract>

Discovering Eden: Rain, Cats and Women in Hemingway’s Garden

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Most characters in fantasy novels seem to be irresistibly drawn towards the world of magic, whether they can actually reach it or not. This paper deals with the special situations of Susan Pevensie in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia and Petunia Dursley in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Having had contact with magic, these two women find the strength to renounce dreaming about a reality that has closed its doors to them and build a “normal” functional life for themselves.</abstract>

Consciously Rejecting the Magic – The Cases of Susan Pevensie and Petunia Dursley

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The aim of this paper is to investigate the philosophical connotations of the trope of the dream in William Shakespeare’s <underline>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</underline> and in Calderón de la Barca’s <underline>La vida es sueño</underline>. What are the authors’ auctorial catalysts in connecting this trope to their key characters? How do these auctorial devices connect the plays to the needs of the contemporary reader, searching for solutions to the challenges of the 21st century modus vivendi?</abstract>

Metaphysical Connotations of the Dream as a Liquifying Trope in 16th – 17th Century Comedies and their Contemporary Applicability for the 21st Century Human: <italic>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</italic> and <italic>La Vida Es Sueño</italic>

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Based upon a corpus analysis of the advertisements for children’s products in a 2017 British issue of <underline>Glamour</underline>, 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.</abstract>

Advertisements for Children’s Products in Women’s Magazines: Traits of the Discourse

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">At birth, everybody is assigned a fate that cannot be changed. In the Banat region, the belief in the powerful influence of the Fairy Godmothers on the new-born’s destiny is still alive. This article aims at presenting the origins of the three fairies and the way in which good luck, health, beauty and fertility can be foretold in the Book of Fate.</abstract>

There is No Running Away from Fate

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Over the past five years violence against women has been growing in Serbia. However, the aim of this paper is not to explore the reasons for the violence itself, but the way it is presented in the media. In this paper, representations of domestic violence are analysed by focusing on the image of women in newspapers, TV shows and film. Therefore, my intention is to examine: 1. How the media manipulate through the construct of gender; 2. The ways in which the media deepen gender differentiation and construct women as a weaker, inferior subject.</abstract>

The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">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, respondents’ age, religion, education level, family type, father’s occupation and household income were found to be significantly associated with marital age (p&lt;0.001).</abstract>

Determinants of Early Marriage Among Women: An Experience from Rural Bangladesh

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Volume 17 (2018): Issue 1 (December 2018)

The “One-Line-Portraitˮ in to the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: Freeing the Counter-Norms

Shaping Gender: Femininity and Masculinity Through Sartorial Fashion in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

”Murderess of Two Husbands”: Female Agency as Female Loyalty in the History of the Nun