Women and Fairness: Navigating an Unfair World

Frontmatter
	Cover
	Imprint
	Table of Contents
	Acknowledgements
Introduction (Johanna M. Wagner)
	Nevertheless…
	Part I. Women in Work: Ways of Doing and Being
	Part II. Women in Cultural Production: Defi ning Images
	Part III. Women in the World: Telling Women’s Stories
	Bibliography
Social Reproduction and “Housewifization”. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Women and Economics (Sorcha Gunne)
	The Gendered Division of Domestic Labour and Social Reproduction Theory
	Silvia Federici and the Limits of Conventional Critiques of Capitalism
	Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Reproductive Labour
	The Gothic Short Story and Resisting “Housewifization”
	Conclusion: “Housewifi zation”, Gender and Global Crises
	Bibliography
The Feminist Agenda in Rachilde’s La Jongleuse. The Artist and Her Creative Power (Guri Ellen Barstad)
	Summary
	Rachilde – a Self-Promoting Auteur à Scandale
	Eliante – an Orphean Queen in the Aquatic Underworld?
	The Siren’s Spell
	The Game of Animation and Petrification
	Pygmalionesque “Girl Power”
	Bibliography
“Looking and feeling good on my own terms”. Amal’s Hybrid Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s "Does My Head Look Big in This?" (Jane Ekstam)
	The Hijab, Empowerment and Hybrid Identity
	Amal as an Adolescent
	Wearing the Hijab
	Muslims, the Quran and the Hijab
	Identity and Empathy
	Bibliography
Challenging Gender Stereotypes? The Representation of Women in Two Ecuadorian Comics (Wladimir Chávez V.)
	Ecuadorian Comics: A Brief Account
	Comics and Women in Ecuador – Two Stories
	Female Representation – Two Visions
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Sublimity of the New Mother in Gothic Film. "The Babadook" and "Goodnight Mommy" (Johanna M. Wagner)
	Beyond the Good and the Bad, New Mothers in Film
	New Mothers as Human
	New Mothers and Subjectivity
	Women and Th e Gothic
	Sublimity of the New Mother
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Women, Animals and Fairness. An Ecofeminist Reading of Charlotte Wood’s "The Natural Way of Things" (2015) and "Animal People" (2011) (Melanie Duckworth)
	Ecofeminism, Nature and Fairness
	Treating Women Like Animals
	Animals, Feminism and Sexual Reproduction
	Culture, Animality, and Selfhood in "The Natural Way of Things"
	Resolutions
	Bibliography
Helen Wells’ "Peril over the Airport" (1953). Norwegian and Swedish Translations of Gender (Marcus Axelsson)
	Feminist Approaches in YA Detective Novels for Girls
	"Peril over the Airport" and its Translations
	Analysis of Excerpted Units
	Results
	Concluding Remarks
	Bibliography
Writing Someone Else’s Story. Entitlement and Empathy in Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman” (Deanna Benjamin)
	Introduction
	Entitlement and Empathy
	More than the Storyteller’s Story
	Silence and Story
	The Stigmatized Vernacular
	Tellability, in Conclusion
	Bibliography
Female Lawyers in the Middle East after the 2011 Arab Revolts. Addressing Family Law and Domestic Violence in State Laws (Rania Maktabi)
	Objectives, Theory and Method
	The Rise of Female Lawyers: Figures and Features
	Women’s Citizenship and Body Politics: Family Law and Criminal Law
	The Politicization of Violence against Women After 2011
	Lebanon
	Morocco
	Kuwait
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Absolutely happy in myself. Four Women’s Negotiations with Patriarchy (Eva Lambertsson Björk and Jutta Eschenbach)
	Introduction
	Girlhood
	Womanhood
	Concluding Remarks
	Bibliography
Being and Becoming a Woman in Lesotho. An Autoethnography of Belonging (Mathabo Khau)
	The Context of Lesotho
	Autoethnography
	Memory Work
	Becoming a Scholar
	Teaching at University
	Theoretical Framing
	Field, Habitus and Capital
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
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