Gender equality in changing times

Professor Angela Smith has edited a collection of essays exploring issues of gender equality in the global context. Contributors to Gender Equality in Changing Times (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) acknowledge the advances brought about by the second-wave movement of feminism, but highlight the work which still needs to be done in the twenty-first century, including the changes in society that have resulted in shifts in masculinity. The book is divided into two parts. Part One looks at gender equality by exploring the 'experience' of being part of a group where gender boundaries still exist, drawing on auto-ethnographies of those in key groups that are central to this debate, as well as interviews with members of such groups. Part Two investigates wider representations of these groups, offering an insight into the geopolitical world of gender relations in Saudi Arabia and China. Ultimately, this collection shows how much has been achieved, yet how far is also left to go.

Volume 7 of Codex is now out!

The 2020 edition of the Humanities undergraduate research journal Codex is now out. Visit the site to read eight fascinating articles based on Third Year dissertations in English language and literature.

Astrid Newby Multicultural Northeastern English (MNE): Could the North East be Host to a New Centre for the Emergence of a Multiethnolect?

Julie Egan Husband versus Wife: An Exploration of the Representations of Gender and Marriage within the Satire of Juvenal, Ben Jonson and Aphra Behn

James Lowther ‘Finished with the War’: The Depiction of War and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Pat Barker’s Regeneration

Shelby Penman “Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?”: Intertextual Metempsychosis in James Joyce’s Ulysses and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Louise Thompson An Exploration of Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl and Rosa as Work that Challenges Adorno’s Claim that ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’

Fiona King Exploitation of a Patriarchal System in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and Alexandra Ripley’s Scarlett

John Ferry Representations of Gender and Sexuality in the Book of Genesis and How Those Representations are Used to Create a System of Patriarchal Hegemony

Sarah Raistrick What Linguistic Strategies do Students and Teachers Use in Order to Create a Co-operative and Collaborative Learning Environment in the Key Stage 1 Classroom?