Gender under Construction

Ewa Glapka has received her PhD degree from Adam Mickiewicz University and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research interests include discourse and gender, media discourse, media reception, discursive psychology and qualitative sociology. In 2014, she published a book titled: Reading Bridal Magazines from a Critical Discursive Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Barbara Braid has earned her PhD degree at Opole University, Poland, and currently holds a position of Assistant Lecturer in English at Szczecin University, Poland. She has published a number of book chapters and journal articles on neo-Victorian fiction, gender performativity, gothic studies and lesbian fiction. She has co-edited a two-volume collection of essays “Unity in Diversity” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013-14).

• IntroductionEwa Glapka and Barbara BraidPart I Gender in Talk: Construction of Identity versus Hegemonic Discourses of GenderMasculinity in Media Consumption: Readers’ Positioning to the Discourse of a Men’s MagazineEwa GlapkaStill Pink and Pale: White Afrikaans Hetero-Femininity in Postapartheid South AfricaChristi van der WesthuizenGendering the Workplace: Between Transgression and (De-)NaturalisationIsabelle V. ZinnPart II Dynamic Masculinities and Their RepresentationsInscribing the Male: Representations of Masculinity and Male Bodies in Contemporary LiteratureBorja Ibaseta‘Imprisoned in a System of Work, Produce, Consume’: So How Did Jack Kerouac, Hugh Hefner, Albert Finney and John Lennon Challenge the Link between Masculinity and Responsibility?Martin KingDesperately Becoming a Father: Representations of Fatherhood in Desperate HousewivesIqbal Akthar and Deirdre HynesPart III Gender, Sexuality and the Coercive Power of InstitutionsSexual Violence against Men in Armed Conflict: Why Is It still Invisible?Renata CukMarital Rape and Constructions of Sexual AgencyMervi PatosalmiSexuality and Gender at a Brazilian School: Constructing FemininitiesVera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andrea Costa da Silva, and Ana Cristina Moreira Lima