The anthology will be published early in 2021. This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold impediments, tangible and otherwise, placed before them as they simply attempt to live full human lives. The collection explores narratives of women – real and fictional – who fight against these barriers, who succumb to them, who remain unaware of them, or choose to ignore them; it explores the ways we read women in cultural production, and how women are read in society. We assert the obstacles constructed into the very fabric of societies against fifty percent of the population are unfair, be they hindrances for women to attain their goals, encumbrances that limit women’s speech and societal participation – communal and artistic – or hindrances that prohibit specific behaviors and images of women.
Contributors are:
Johanna M. Wagner: Introduction: Navigating an Unfair World
Women in Work: Ways of Doing and Being
- Sorcha Gunne: Social Reproduction and ”Housewifization”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Women and Economics
- Guri Ellen Barstad: The Feminist Agenda in Rachilde’s La Jongleuse: the Artist and Her Creative Power
- Jane Ekstam: “Looking and feeling on my own terms”: Amal’s Hybrid Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?
Women in Cultural Production, Defining Images
- Wladimir Chávez Vaca: Challenging Gender Stereotypes? The Representation of Females in Two Ecuadorian Comics
- Johanna M. Wagner: Uncanny Mundanity – The New Mother in The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy
- Melanie Duckworth: Women and Animals in Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things
- Marcus Axelsson: The Translation of Female Appearance and Misogyny in the Norwegian and Swedish Versions of Helen Well’s Peril over the Airport (1953)
Women in the World, Telling Women’s Stories
- Deanna Benjamin: Writing Someone Else’s Story: A Look at the Imagined Narrative in Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman”
- Rania Maktabi: Female Lawyers in the Middle East after the 2011 Arab Revolts: Addressing Family Law and Domestic Violence in State Laws
- Eva Lambertsson Björk and Jutta Eschenbach: Absolutely Happy in Myself: Four Women’s Negotiation with Patriarchy
- Mathabo Khau: Being and Becoming a Woman in Lesotho: An Autoethnography of Belonging