Womens Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal

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Notes on Contributors	7
Girls Who Persist and Resist: Resistance in Girlhood Studies and Girls’ Literature	7
Rescripting the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Eudora Welty’s “Moon Lake”	7
Reframing “Spinsterhood” in Palestine: Societal Stigma and the Marginalization of Unmarried Women	5
Birthing New Black Sentences: Reflections on Black Maternal Health and Healing in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha for Our Present Time	5
The New Woman Vampire and Marriage in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire	3
The Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center; Or, on Hearing Your Mom Described as “The Fucking Bravest Bitch I Knew”	3
Living After, and Before, the End of the World: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth	2
Notes on Contributors	2
The New Woman’s Fantasy About Adoption and Transnormative Family in George Egerton’s “The Spell of the White Elf”	2
Science, Women, and the Mother Tongue: Translating Knowledge for 19 th -Century Readers	2
Singh, Lata, and Shashank Shekhar Sinha, editors. Gender in Modern India: History, Culture, Marginality .	2
A Polygynous World, a Woman’s Voice: Exploring Female Experience in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter	2
Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries , by Sherine Hafez.Indiana University Press, 2019. 264 pagesSherine Hafez. Women o	1
Mdege, Norita. Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict	1
Poetic Justice and Poetic Forgiveness as Feminine Ethics in Lee Chang-dong’s Milyang (2007) and Poetry (2010)	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Gender, loss, and the erosion of bodily capital: A study with women diagnosed with late stage breast cancer	1
“Be the change that you want to see in the world”: A Moral Economy of Volunteering for Female Empowerment in Brazil	1
Dirschauer, Marlene. Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf .Dirschauer, Marlene. Mode	1
The New Woman as an Image of the Public Intellectual	1
Counter-Hegemonic Hegemonic Writing: Heroic Epic Tradition and the Postwar Black Female Subjectivity in Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Anniad”	1
Elkins, Amy E. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present Elkins, Amy E. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modern	1
Introduction	1
(Dis)Entangling Manto and Chughtai: Review of Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto, tr. Muhammad Umar Memon, and Ismat Chughtai, tr. M. Asaduddin. Penguin Random House India	1

Everybody’s Kathy: Acker, Laing, and the Autofictional Turn	1
Reproductive Self-Governance: Advocating for an Anarcho-Feminist Model of Abortion Access	1
Peeled Bananas, Hot Shrimp, and Honeysuckle on Trains, Buses, Wagons, and Automobiles: Symbolic Sexual Trans/Portations in Eudora Welty’s Fiction	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Monstrous Others: Black Girl Refusal in Afrofuturist Young Adult Literature	1
The Changing Same	1
Freeman, Margaret H. Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading	1
Fatma Aliye: At the Intersection of Secular and Islamic Feminism	1
Schipper, Mineke. Widows: A Global History.	1
“I’ve never liked mimeo”: Eileen Myles, Little Magazines, and the “Umpteenth-Generation New York School”	1
The Problematic (Im)Persistence of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Popular Culture and YA Fiction	1
Ev’ry Shut Eye Ain’ Sleep: A Critical Race Awakening of Flannery O’Connor’s Artificial and Converged Characters in Crisis	1
The Marimacho Invasion: Sports, Masculine Femininity, and Fashion in Fin-de-Siècle Mexico and Argentina	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Flannery O’Connor’s Gothic Farm and the Women Who Run It: The Transference from Idyll to Isolation	1
Attribution	1
The Subaltern Woman at Home: Female Silence Redefined in Alifa Rifaat’s Short Fiction	1
Intersectionality, Whiteness, Womanhood, Transgression, and Transformation in Eudora Welty’s Stories of Southern Girlhood	1
Roy, Srila. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India Roy, Srila. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer P	0
Black Girlhood Persists: Pecola’s Persistence as Non/Child in Toni Morrison’sThe Bluest Eye1	0
The Decline of Cultural Christianity and the Ascendancy of the God of Self: A Study in a Literary Trend of the 1920s	0
Chinese Women in Hanfu: A Gendered Subject Narrative in the Cultural Nationalist Movement	0
Moore, Lisa. Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature	0
Punk Persistence: Subversive Change and Continued Resistance in Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk	0
Taggard, Genevieve. To Test the Joy: Selected Poetry and Prose	0
Promiscuity in Western Literature, by Peter Stoneley	0
Unraveling Conflict Amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Chick Lit	0
Laborde, Katheryn Krotzer. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan.	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Witches in the Wilderness: Seeing Beyond the Nation-State in Toni Morrison’s Paradise	0
The Evolution of Female Audiences’ Perception of Female Superheroes in Films	0
Gönül Dönmez-Colin. Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and as Images-Makers	0
Stowe’s Slavery and Stowe’s Capitalism: Forced Reproductive Labor in Uncle Tom’s Cabin	0
Mother Liberty	0
The Babington Garden: Memory, Imagination and Writing in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage	0
“It’s you! It’s me! It’s us!”: The Accidental Path of Horror in Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor	0
The Unspeakable in Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination	0
The New Macho Man Is Out to Destroy Us All	0
Women on the Edge: Gender Representation in Mare of Easttown	0
Suffering, Healing, and Relationship: Innovations in Harriet Beecher Stowe Scholarship	0
An Autobiographical Perspective on Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill”	0
On Foremothers, Muses, and Black Feminist Theorizing	0
The Intricate Bonds of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: A Journey with Attachment Theory	0
Scream	0
Talia Bhatt. Trans/Rad/Fem: Essays on Transfeminism . 2025	0
Reflections	0
Siem Reap Spiral II	0
Venereal Disease as Metaphor: Pathologization of Vietnamese Women in Ahn Jung-hyo’sWhite Badge	0
Home to Mother	0
“Muslim Women Speaking Out Persistently”	0

Gender Depiction and Empowerment in Children’s Literature: A Pakistani Context	0
If You Want to Put Conditions on Your Writing, You are Not a Writer	0
(Re) Assessing Trauma, Race, and the Resurrection in Dilsey’s Section of The Sound and the Fury	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Every Covid Has a Silver Lining: Women’s Lived Experiences and Potential Feminist Futures beyond the Pandemic	0
“Always a Step Behind, Dazed”: Romanticized Gender Violence and Melodramatic Convention in Twilight	0
Lambertsson Björk, Eva, et al., editors. Women and Fairness: Navigating an Unfair World	0
“I Am a Bad Mother”: Constructions of Motherhood in Women’s Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Fiction	0
Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New	0
Language Matters	0
Misogyny Survives the Apocalypse: The Collapse of Reproductive Justice in Emily St. John Mandel’sStation Elevenand Ling Ma’sSeverance	0
Muslim Women Speaking Persistently	0
Class, Crisis, and the Commons in Eileen Myles’ Late Work	0
The Roles of Women in Endogenous Peacemaking Institutions: The Case of Borana Women in Southern Ethiopia	0
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven, edited by Jennifer McFarlane-Harris and Emily Hamilton-Honey	0
Harriet Taylor Mill: The Unitarian Background	0
Plant/s Matter	0
Subverting Gender Norms: Cross-Dressing and Power in Kilpatrick’s The Darker Passions: The Picture of Dorian Gray	0
Demon Copperhead Visions of the South and its Women	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Cleghorn Elinor. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World	0
Notes on Contributors	0
(Un)learning Qin, Dark/Soft Wisdom, and Female (M)use: Chenglian and Boya by Lihai Huang	0
Superior Motherhood: The Utilization of Motherhood in the Interactions between Missionary Women and Korean Women, 1884-1910	0
Signifying Dog: Afterglow’s Afterglow	0
Beyond the Veil of the Orient: Harriet Low’s Macau Diaries and the Feminine Discourse of 19th Century Sino-American Encounters	0
“There is No Truth About Women”: Narrating Truth, Gossip, and Women’s Discourse	0
Rhododendrons	0
“No, it was a girl. A woman”: A Study of Indigenous Resilience and Girlhood in Katherena Vermette’sThe Break	0
Abel, Elizabeth. Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies	0
Populism and Surrogacy in Spain	0
Truth, Space, and Resistance: Iranian Women’s Practices of Freedom in Ramita Navai’sCity of Lies	0
Wing It	0
Shealy, Daniel, editor. Little Women at 150	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Girls Save the World: Activism, Persistence, and Solidarity in Hemispheric Latin(x) American Youth Literature	0
Ocean Beach 2012	0
Aguiló-Pérez, Emily R. An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play	0
Altruistic Surrogacy and Reproductive Futurism in Falguni Kothari’s The Object of Your Affections (2019)	0
“Welty’s White Girlhoods In/As History”	0
Statement of Retraction: A Voice of Her Own: The Persistence of Muslim American Women in Rohina Malik’s Unveiled	0
Exploding Myths of Female Desire for the Twenty-First Century: The Bacchantes of Euripides, Proust, and Minard	0
Romance and Reception: Ayisha Malik’s Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged and the Limits of Self-Representation of British Muslim Women	0
Pacific Sunset	0
“Where You Come from is Gone”: What Flannery O’Connor Taught Me about Mothers	0
Remodeling Cinderella Through Posthuman Performativity in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder	0
Dance as Queer Neoliberal Critique Choreographing Beyond Disposable Representations of Migrant Domestic Workers	0
Gilmore, Leigh, and Elizabeth Marshall. Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing	0
Rowe, Bruce M. and Diane P. Levine. A Concise Introduction to Linguistics .	0
How Female Singers in Iran Challenge Restriction by Retrieving Collective Memory: Their Genre, Visual Representation, and Different Implications for the National and International Audience	0
Frazer, Elizabeth. Shakespeare and the Political Way .	0
Brownstein, Rachel M. American Born: An Immigrant’s Story, A Daughter’s Memoir .Brownstein, Rachel M. American Born: An Immigrant’s Stor	0
Hennessy, Rosemary. In the Company of Radical Women Writers	0
Vogel, Maria A., and Linda Arnell, editors. Living Like a Girl: Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond .Maria A. Vogel, and Linda Arnell,	0
Shiny Collisions: Editing as Serious Humor in dodgems	0
Washing Machines Won’t Save Us: A Review of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time	0
Life as the Ideal; The Requirements of Creating a Feminist Politics in Contemporary Iran	0
Ecological Crisis and Feminist Awakening in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior : Gender, Empowerment, and Environmental Interconnection	0
In Transit	0
The Subversiveness of Dis/Associating Women with the Sea, Woods, and Moors: Ecofeminism in Dollie Radford’s Poetry	0
Vienne–Guerrin, Nathalie. The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World. .Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie. The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespear	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Iris	0
Unfinished Resistance	0
Seeing in the Dark (Grave): From Emerson to Dickinson	0
Writing Life is a Lift	0
Contesting Postfeminism: Feminist Address and Relational Politics in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl *	0
Revisiting Asymmetries in the Representation of Portuguese Women News Anchors	0
The Personal and the Political	0
Performing Toxic Womanhood: Patriarchy, Infidelity, and the “Good Woman” Trope in Yoruba Nollywood	0
The Genealogy of Creation, Intellectual Resources, and Web of Meanings: A Preliminary Exploration of the Reading History of Jesmyn Ward	0
Female Anxiety and Struggle: From Victorian Gothic Traditions to 1940s Hollywood Gothic Romance Films	0
She/Her	0
Telling New Stories: Disability and Determination in Contemporary Young Adult Fairy Tales	0
Degenderizing Modernity in Ling Shuhua’s Boudoir School Writing: With a Comparison to Virginia Woolf	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Global South and Its Discontents: Unmasking the Capitalocene in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Finley, Cheryl, et al., editors. Women and Migration(s) II	0

Polyphonic Narrative, Feminist Utopia, and London Imagination: Artistic Experimentations in Girl, Woman, Other	0
Jennifer R. Gross, editor. Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable.	0
From the Margin to the Fold: The Imprint of Toni Morrison on the Writing of Akwaeke Emezi	0
Strength of Mind, Self-Command, and Elasticity of Mind in Jane Austen’s Persuasion	0
Eileen Myles Now	0
Notes on Contributors	0
From Mining Ore to Uncovering Gilt: Cecelia Tichi’s Gilded Age Novels	0
The Voice in Twenty-First Century Spoken Word Poetry and Confessionalism: An Analysis of Performances by Lozada-Oliva, Benaim, and Vaid-Menon	0
Strategic Female Entrepreneurship: Love, Self-Interest, and Gender Norms in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia	0
Higginson and Dickinson: The Soldier and the Poet*	0
Kristi Branham and Kelly L. Reames, editors. Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture Kristi Branham and Kelly L. Reames, editors. <	0
Steggle, Matthew. Speed and Flight in Shakespeare .	0
Women-Centered Diaspora in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy	0
Reframing Visual Narrative: The Intersectional Gaze in Nina Menkes’s Magdalena Viraga	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Confronting the Inessential: The Projection of the Self in the Writing of Sylvia Plath	0
“Objection to Roast Chicken” 1 : Feminist-Vegan Incidents in Daphne du Maurier’s “The Chamois” and “The Blue Lenses”	0
It’s Not About Pronouns	0
Discourse Analysis of Feminism in the Chinese Stand-Up Comedy Show Rock & Roast	0
The Rejection of Beauty Servitude: Voices from Chinese Feminists	0
DeClue, Jennifer. Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema	0
“Oye” Como Va: A Review of Oye from Melissa Mogollon	0
Feral Intimacy: Feminist Transformations Through Solitary Forest Walks	0
Fiore d’Abruzzo	0
Visions, Saints, and Sacraments:Uncle Tom’s Cabinand Catholicism	0
Perez, Caroline Criado. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men	0
Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity, by Kelto Lillis and Julia	0
Voiced Identity: Dialogic Power and Character Dynamics Between Lucy and M. Paul in Villette (1853)	0
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel	0
Care	0
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems	0
Precarity and Estrangement: Rethinking Loneliness Through Women’s Diasporic Narratives	0
Exploring the Landscape and Trajectories of Women’s Movements and Islam in the “Post-reformation” Era in Indonesia	0
Sapphic Poetry on the Kobiety Kobietom [Women for Women] Website – Affects, Amateurism, and Queerness (Selected Examples)	0
Laughter as Reprisal: The Feminist Take on Subversive Narration and Discursivity Through Humor in Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife	0
Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby	0
Interracial Sexual Desire and Miscegenation in Victoria Cross’sAnna Lombard	0
“To See Beyond Fear”: Harbingering a Dissenting Discourse in Iranian American Self-Narratives	0
Ruth Hearts Beneatha: Let’s Talk About Lorraine Hansberry’s Lesbianism	0
What Matters Most	0
Christmas Geese	0
Reading Austen’s Fiction as Modern: Women’s Outward and Social Movements in Jane Austen’s Novels	0
Precarious Lives and Resisting Women: A Butlerian Reading of Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age	0
“Feminism Means Having the Same Rights as Everyone”: Exploring Feminism from Women with Intellectual Disabilities’ Perspectives	0
“Maybe We Carry Our Mothers’ Traumas in Our Bones”: Exploring the Paradox of Matrophobia in Upile Chisala’s Poetry	0
Eileen Myles in Conversation with Maggie Nelson	0
Nevertheless, They Persist: The Iconicity and Radical Politics of Malala Yousafzai	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing	0
Looking Back	0
Allukian, Kristin. Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869	0
“Lingering” and “Incurable”: Flannery O’Connor’s Humor and the Game of Status in “Good Country People”	0
The Gendered Fracture of Narrative Voice in The Yellow Wallpaper : Fragmentation as Resistance and Reflection of Patriarchal Oppression	0
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the “Chicas Raras.”, edited by Simón-Alegre, Ana I. and Lou Charnon-Deutsch	0
Writing Feminist Hermeneutics through Liminality: A Reading of Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age	0
The Lesbian Poet	0
Karen Kilcup. Who Killed American Poetry?: From National Obsession to Elite Possession	0
Eudora Welty Writing Elizabeth Bowen, “Feeling into Words”	0
Rokeya, Begum. Sultana’s Dream	0
Girls Who Persist: Girls, Literature for Girls, and the Politics of Persistence	0
Towards a Feminization of Time in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (1998) and Sahar Al-Mouji’s the Musk of the Hill (2017)	0
Anna Malaika Tubbs. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation	0
Toni Morrison, American Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author, editor and professor. Edinburgh International Book Festival	0
“I want to do something with my life”: Reading Resistance in South Asian Girlhoods Portrayed in Keeping Corner, Climbing the Stairs, and Neela: Victory Song	0
Seeing Carson: Lesbian Visibility in Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Madeleine Albanese	0
Crocus	0
Driving and Catastrophe with Eileen Myles	0
The Sphinx’s Riddle: Representation of Women on the National Theatre at Home Platform	0
Notes on Contributors	0
“Marching across the water”: A Material Ecofeminist Reading of “A View of the Woods”	0
“What about Justice?”: Persisting Girls in Young Adult Rape Fiction	0
Taylor, Tess, editor. Leaning Toward the Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands That Tend Them	0
“The Journey is Over. Love to All.”	0
Precarity and Relational Autonomy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’sAmericanah	0
El-Meligi Eman. Deconstructing Hegemony, Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, and Historiography El-Meligi Eman. <	0
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova	0
Self Portrait	0
For This Moment and Beyond: Solidarity, Sense-Making, and Survivorship at the Theater with Anna Moench’s “Man of God”	0
A Study of Aviatrixes Holding Leadership Roles in the Historical Phases of Aeronautics	0
Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
For Eileen Myles	0
Spatial Mapping, History, and the Witch in Winterson’s The Daylight Gate	0
Gaskin, Richard. Othello and the Problem of Knowledge: Reading Shakespeare Through Wittgenstein.	0
Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’sThe Pearl That Broke Its Shell	0
Snipe	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Patchwork Politics: Black Women Stitching Their Own Identities in Eudora Welty’s Writing	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Marita Golden’sAnd Do Remember Meas Womanist Homage to Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement	0
Eudora Welty in Cloche	0
Nicholls, Emily. Negotiating Femininities in the Neoliberal Night-Time Economy: Too Much of a Girl?	0
Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran	0
Louisa May Alcott’s “Enigmas”: Trans Feeling in the Nineteenth Century	0
(Wo)men’s Agency and a Critique of Modernity: A Chinese Adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Jingjing Chen	0
Mythopoeic YA: Make Way for Cross-Dressing, Cyborg, Shape-Shifting Female-Heroes	0