Women and Fairness : Navigating an Unfair World / Eva Lambertsson Björk, Jutta Eschenbach, Johanna M. Wagner

• HerausgeberIn: Lambertsson Björk, Eva; Eschenbach, Jutta; Wagner, Johanna M.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold impediments 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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Johanna M. Wagner Introduction Part I. Women in Work: Ways of Doing and Being Sorcha Gunne Social Reproduction and "Housewifi zation" 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 good on my own terms" Amal's Hybrid Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah's Does My Head Look Big in This? Part II. Women in Cultural Production: Defining Images Wladimir Chávez V. Challenging Gender Stereotypes? The Representation of Women in Two Ecuadorian Comics Johanna M. Wagner Sublimity of the New Mother in Gothic Film The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy Melanie Duckworth Women, Animals and Fairness An Ecofeminist Reading of Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things (2015) and Animal People (2011) Marcus Axelsson Helen Wells' Peril over the Airport (1953) Norwegian and Swedish Translations of Gender Part III. Women in the World: Telling Women's Stories Deanna Benjamin Writing Someone Else's Story Entitlement and Empathy 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 Negotiations with Patriarchy Mathabo Khau Being and Becoming a Woman in Lesotho An Autoethnography of Belonging About the Editors About the Contributors