Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 25, Issue 2, 2022

Abstract Women’s magazines and the gender representations in them have been subject to much investigation. Less attention has been paid to alternative media aimed at women, while these have the potential to create and distribute new, empowered approaches to gender representations and business models. This contribution to mapping the alternative feminist media landscape in Belgium focuses on the case of Charlie M Read More

Abstract The Iranian state is notorious for its heteronormativity and policing regime in online and offline spaces. The question of how queer Iranians ‘survive’ this inquisitive and intrusive regime of surveillance and control has attracted scholarly interest across disciplines. The existing studies complicate the picture and show that queer spaces, practices, and performances survive despite the extensive control. Digital spaces h Read More

Abstract Writing at the end of a century which witnessed the possibility of dramatic social change, Mary Wollstonecraft and writing duo Elizabeth Wolff and Agatha Deken examined the relationship between rights and gender equality through the lens of citizenship, marriage, and education. Through a literary analysis of their novels, respectively Maria (1798) and Sara Burgerhart (1782), the current study shows how represen Read More