Women’s Space and Men’s Space

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The articles included in this book explore the concept of space with regard to gender discourse. Their authors analyse how women and men address, re-define and shape their physical, topographical as well as cultural and literary space; they study how gender affects women’s and men’s spatial and discursive location and how it influences their (spatial) identities. The contributors to this book are young academics, Ph.D. students and university graduates. Apart of the freshness of the approach, the book’s strength lies in the fact that the gendered dimension of space is discussed here from numerous standpoints, such as geographic, psychological, linguistic, sociological, literary and cultural.

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Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Katarzyna Ostalska – “You Grant Me Space, You Grant My Space:” The Gender of Women’s Own Rooms 9

SECTION ONE: THE GENDERED SPACE OF LITERATURE 17

Jędrzej Tazbir – A Descent into Departure and an Exploration of Absence – Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves as a Portrayal of the Space of Literature 19
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska – A White Room in a Gothic Manor. Spaces of the Heroine in Adelheid by Vladimír Körner 33
Karolina Marzec – Defying Genre Stereotypes in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and A Little Princess 41

SECTION TWO: SPACE, VISION AND A GENDERED PLACE 53

Marta Olasik – Towards Lesbian Studies in Poland 55
Magdalena Banasiewicz and Jan Rusek – Gender Stereotypes and the Place Identity 73
Zofia Piotrowska-Kretkiewicz – From the Kitchen to the World – Changes of Women’s Status and Attitudes on the Example of the Mexican Indian Villages in the La Huasteca Hidalguense Region 85
Katarzyna Wojtanik – Space, Shape and Movement in Signing and the Gendering of Visual Languages 99

SECTION THREE: THE GENDERING OF SPACE AND CULTURE 117

Agnieszka Kurzawa – Transgressing the Spaces in Film Adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil 119
Antonina Kuras – Witches Now and Then: The Image of a Witch and Differences in the Perception of Female Witches During Sixteenth, Seventeenth Centuries and Nowadays 125
Joanna Trojak – Jackie, Marilyn or Someone Different − Male Constructed Myths of 1960’s Women in TV Series Mad Men 133

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