Gender Under Construction ― Femininities and Masculinities in Context

Taking a non-essentialist approach, this book provides a number of compelling and fascinating accounts of how gender intersects with nationality, ethnicity, economy, age, sexuality and class. The identity processes discussed richly illustrate the complexity, constructedness and contestability of gender.

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).