No. 11/2012 - Centrul Interdisciplinar de Studii de Gen

450 Pages·2012·2.32 MB·English

GENDER STUDIES

Vol. 1 No. 11/2012

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GENDER STUDIES

Vol. 1 No. 11/2012

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Gender Studies
Revista de Studii de Gen a Centrului Interdisciplinar de Studii
de Gen al Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
ISSN 1583-980X
CNCS (The National Council for Scientific Research) code: 258
CNCS classification 2010: B+ (maintained for 2011)

As of January 2009 Gender Studies is indexed in the MLA
International Bibliography; all our back issues are
indexed in the Central and Eastern European Online Library
(C.E.E.O.L.) at: www.ceeol.com.

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GENDER STUDIES
Editor: Reghina Dascăl
Language consultant: Stuart Elford

ADVISORY BOARD:
Haleh Afshar - University of York
Pia Brînzeu - University of the West, Timişoara
Otilia Hedeşan - University of the West, Timişoara
Margaret R. Higonnet – University of Connecticut
Vesela Katsarova – University of Sofia
Hildegard Klein - University of Málaga
Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney - University of Łódź
Isabel Marcus - State University of New York, Buffalo
Hortensia Pîrlog - University of the West, Timişoara
Nóra Séllei - University of Debrecen

EDITORIAL ADDRESS
All correspondence should be addressed to: Reghina Dascăl,
Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies,
English Department, University of the West Timişoara
Blvd. V. Pârvan, no. 4-6, 300223 Timişoara
Phone/fax (+ 40) 256 452 224;
e-mail: [email protected]
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CONTENTS
Gender Aspects of Shakespeare’s
Work and Age
GYÖRGY E. SZÖNYI “Contending with the Fretful Element”:
Shakespeare and the (Gendered) Great
Chain of Being /

WAI FONG CHEANG Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space
in Three Shakespearean Comedies /

BIANCA FOGHEL Patterns and Representations of Shakespearean
Love: Hubris, Infatuation, Agape in Hamlet/

MICHELE DE BENEDICTIS “In the Head of the Worthiest Women”:
Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines
in Jacobean Court Masques /

CSABA MACZELKA Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter Et Idem and
Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England /

DANA PERCEC Women under Siege. The Shakespearean
ANDREEA ŞERBAN Ethics of Violence /

ECATERINA LIA HANŢIU She’s the Man: Gender Dynamics in
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night /

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ELISABETA ZELINKA Ladies and Gentlemen in Renaissance
Western Europe Eros Via Thanatos

LAVINIA HULEA Pre-Raphaelites Painting Shakespeare’s
Women
OANA-ALIS ZAHARIA Fashioning the Queen - Elizabeth I as
Patron of Translations /

REGHINA DASCĂL The Renaissance Midwife /
Gender, Culture, Society
STEFANIA BISCETTI Representations of Femininity in
Seventeenth Century Conduct Manuals
for Gentlemen /

IOANA-FLORINA MITEA The Modern Woman and Women’s
Emancipation in 19th Century English
and Romanian Comedies /

ROXANA GHIŢĂ Different Horrors, Same Hell: The Gendered
Nature of Holocaust Suffering /

HILDEGARD KLEIN Lilies on the Land – The Forgotten Women’s
Land Army of World War II – A Documentary
Play /
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LILIJANA BURCAR Why Feminist Critical Literacy Matters: the
Reorganisation of Capitalist Economies and
the Significance of Socially Engaged
Literature for Young Adults /
Through the Lens of Gender. Sites of
Gendered Representation and Discourse

ROWENA COLES Gender Differences in Italian Translations of
Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children /

HELGA VANDA The Role of Gender in Verbal Disagreement:
KOCZOGH A Study of Disagreement Strategies Employed
by Hungarian Undergraduate Students /

BILJANA RADIĆ-BOJANIĆ Metaphors of Hegemonic Masculinity –
NADEŽDA SILAŠKI Women’s Understanding of Sport
Metaphors in Political Discourse /

DIANA-GABRIELA LUPU The Innocent American Girl in Henry
James’s International Novel /

The Female as Alterity, Subversion and
Transgression
GABRIELLA TÓTH Metaphorical Mirrors and Subverting Selves in
Adrienne Kennedy’s One-Act Plays /
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MARIA-CRISTINA GHIBAN Visions of the Female Subject in the
(MOCANU) Borderlands /

ALEKSANDRA IZGARJAN Alice Walker’s Womanism: Perspectives
SLOBODANKA MARKOV Past and Present /

ELENA MARIA EMANDI Containing Otherness through Rational
Detection: Feminine Characters in Arthur
Conan Doyle /

ADRIANA RĂDUCANU Lady Audley’s Sphinxian Mystery? /

About the Authors /

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GENDER ASPECTS OF SHAKESPEARE’S

WORK AND AGE

“CONTENDING WITH THE FRETFUL ELEMENT”:
SHAKESPEARE AND THE (GENDERED) GREAT CHAIN
OF BEING

GYÖRGY E. SZÖNYI
University of Szeged; Central European University, Budapest
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