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This article examines briefly the implications of the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. While these implications are dire for women’s rights all over the country, even in those states where abortion is still legal, the repeal may also herald the cancelation of other recently granted rights, such as same sex marriage. Consequently, it is necessary to mount a meaningful resistance to prevent such developments and to find other ways of guaranteeing the right of women to take decisions regarding their own body.
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Reflections on the Repeal of Roe v. Wade

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The present paper seeks to investigate the representation of a relevant number of gendered epithets in two prominent Romanian dictionaries, the most recent edition of DOOM (2021, Third Edition) and the current edition of DEX (2016, Revised Edition based on the first and second editions). Taking into account the prescriptive dimension which both these dictionaries share and the fact that they both retain their status as significant reference books in present-day Romania, the paper examines the way in which these current dictionaries choose to describe these words, arguing for the significance of the “metadata” (Nunberg, 2018; Pullum, 2018) component in the lexicographical representation of lexical items which can function as gendered insults.
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Gendered Epithets in Two Prominent Romanian Dictionaries

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This article discusses the representations and narratives of transmasculinities in selected works by contemporary Anglophone nonbinary writers assigned female at birth. After briefly introducing the primary sources, I explain how this selection of texts allows for an analysis that contributes to widening the conventional conceptualisation of masculinities as related only to biological men and trans men, and I specify the kinds of masculinities discussed in the article. I then concentrate on three prominently featured themes in the analysed narratives: rejection and erasure within the lesbian and feminist communities, confusion caused by the authors’ identities in their everyday lives, and nonbinary parenting-related issues. Exploring how the authors write about these themes illuminates not only how they textually construct their diverse masculinities but also some of the key challenges they navigate: identity unintelligibility, invisibility, and the threat of involuntary complicity in the patriarchal order.
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Transmasculinities in Nonbinary Autobiographical Writing

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Although the issues related to sexuality are of prime importance in the contemporary world, in the Indian society they are closeted and ignored even today. Several social injunctions are conceptualized against men with alternative sexualities. To avoid social stigma, men refrain from coming out of the closet and accepting their natural sexual identity and orientation. However, there are certain playwrights who have addressed this otherwise taboo subject of sexuality on the Indian Stage. Mahesh Dattani is one amongst them. His plays firmly assert that gender and sexuality are concepts that are not confined to one’s biological orientation, but rather go beyond it. They are conditioned by socio-cultural norms and hegemonic practices. He elucidates how the socio-cultural determinants of gender and sexuality contradict one’s own individual instincts, sexual preferences and lived experiences. With reference to his famous play Do the Needful, this paper gives a brief account of the condition of Indian theatre pre- and post-colonization and projects the camouflaging techniques adopted by the discursive identities of gay people, for example, in order to conspicuously feature as straight and normal. It outlines the social constructions associated with gays in India and how these formations compel Indian men to internalize and succumb to the conventional norms of heterosexuality as the only acceptable norms.
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Mahesh Dattani’s <italic>Do the Needful</italic>: A Tussle Between Innate Sexuality and Imposed Identity

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Reggaetón music is very popular among Spanish speaking young people of high school-age. Thus, we intend to examine the values of (in)equality between women and men transmitted in the lyrics of this music genre. Using a Maxqda software-assisted Thematic Analysis methodology, the lyrics of 65 reggaetón songs with the most commercial success during 2020 have been analysed. The results suggest that the most commercialised reggaetón continues to reproduce certain traditional masculine stereotypes (machismo). In the discussion we compare and contrast alternative approaches and positions concerning the reggaetón genre. We feel it is necessary that educational spaces adopt a critical and consciousness raising approach to reggaetón due to the powerful influence exerted on young people regarding sexual stereotypes.
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(In)Equality and the Influence of Reggaeton Music as a Socialisation Factor: A Critical Analysis

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Given his most famous account, “I can safely say that there is not a petticoat in the whole history” of his most well-known romance, <italic>King Solomon’s Mines</italic> (1885), H. Rider Haggard’s works have been mostly celebrated as significant examples of the representation of imperial masculinities in the late Victorian romance fiction. In this typical imperialist narrative, Africa provides a setting for British boys to become men (Brantlinger, 1988). This paper, however, suggests that this notion of male mobility is replaced by the portrayal of a female traveller in Haggard’s <italic>Benita: An African Romance</italic> (1906). Benita’s sea journey from Southampton to Durban also brings gender roles into question in Haggard’s long lost travel text. This article, thus, will explore Haggard’s work in the broad Victorian context of political, philosophical and racial beliefs, and investigate the role of female travellers in the construction of national identity.
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Travelling Across the Colonial Frontier: Female Mobility and the Making of English National Identity in H. Rider Haggard’s <italic>Benita: An African Romance</italic>

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The article examines <italic>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</italic>, by Gertrude Stein. Filtered through the eyes of her lover, the text’s focus is on Stein’s artistic growth. Published in 1933 and written from “the happily distant perspective of the 1930s” (Benstock, 1986, p. 144), <italic>The Autobiography</italic> shows how Stein copes with the isolation and despair of her first years of expatriation in Paris. The paper argues that Stein was only able to perform in-depth acts of self-analysis once she had settled down in her troubled subjective geography.
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Gertrude Stein’s Experience of Expatriation and Settlement in <italic>the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</italic>

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During lockdown in 2020, in English Literature class, 4th year students majoring in Primary Education had to create stories in which optional male or female characters were allowed. Some conditions were pre-established: thus stories had to be digital and able to be used in online classes with primary pupils. Also, the stories had to follow a determined narrative structure. As a third condition, it was recommended to be aware of the fairness of using female protagonists, as well as male, and give it a thought before choosing either one or the other. This paper will explain the methodology, explain the participants’ digital contributions and show the results with some analysis of the students’ creations.
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Women’s Voices in Digital Storytelling During the Pandemic: A Case Study in English Literature Classes

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Despite educational and employment advancements, research indicates that traditional and sexual scripts are nevertheless often considered and adhered to as related to gendered conditioning. This manuscript reviews the traditional sexual script and sexual script theory, provides application illustrations of the theories and discusses the implications of such conditioning, particularly for women.
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Women, Scripts and Conditioning

Book Review: Gustavo Carvajal. <italic>Women, Memory, Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction - Palabra de Mujer</italic>, University of Wales Press, Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2021, 240p. ISBN-10:1786838036/ISBN-13: 978-1786838032

Book Review: Daryl Leeworthy. <italic>Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy</italic>. University of Wales Press, 2022, 252 p. ISBN: 978-1-78683-854-5/eISBN: 978-1-78683-855-1

Book Review: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. <italic>Femeile şi economicul. Tărâmul-ei. Tapetul galben</italic>. Traducere şi prefaţă de Amelia Precup. Postfaţă de Mihaela Mudure. Ediţia a II-a revăzută şi adăugită. Floreşti: Limes, 2021, 367p. ISBN 978-606-799-496-4

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Volume 21 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)

Reflections on the Repeal of Roe v. Wade

Gendered Epithets in Two Prominent Romanian Dictionaries

Transmasculinities in Nonbinary Autobiographical Writing

Mahesh Dattani’s Do the Needful: A Tussle Between Innate Sexuality and Imposed Identity

(In)Equality and the Influence of Reggaeton Music as a Socialisation Factor: A Critical Analysis

Travelling Across the Colonial Frontier: Female Mobility and the Making of English National Identity in H. Rider Haggard’s Benita: An African Romance

Gertrude Stein’s Experience of Expatriation and Settlement in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Women’s Voices in Digital Storytelling During the Pandemic: A Case Study in English Literature Classes

Women, Scripts and Conditioning

Book Review: Gustavo Carvajal. Women, Memory, Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction - Palabra de Mujer, University of Wales Press, Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2021, 240p. ISBN-10:1786838036/ISBN-13: 978-1786838032

Book Review: Daryl Leeworthy. Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy. University of Wales Press, 2022, 252 p. ISBN: 978-1-78683-854-5/eISBN: 978-1-78683-855-1

Book Review: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Femeile şi economicul. Tărâmul-ei. Tapetul galben. Traducere şi prefaţă de Amelia Precup. Postfaţă de Mihaela Mudure. Ediţia a II-a revăzută şi adăugită. Floreşti: Limes, 2021, 367p. ISBN 978-606-799-496-4

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