Special Issue on Literature and Gender Dynamics

Literature and Gender Dynamics explores how literary texts reflect, construct, and challenge gender identities, roles, and power relations across diverse cultural and historical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary scholarship that examines representations of masculinity, femininity, and non-binary identities, as well as the intersections of gender with class, race, sexuality, and ideology. Contributions may analyze canonical and contemporary works, theoretical frameworks, and narrative strategies to uncover how literature both reinforces and subverts dominant gender norms. By foregrounding critical perspectives from feminist theory, queer studies, and cultural analysis, this issue aims to deepen understanding of the evolving relationship between literary expression and gendered experience.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring Literature and Gender Dynamics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Feminist literary criticism
• Queer literary studies
• Masculinity studies
• Gender and narrative theory
• Postcolonial gender studies
• Gender and cultural studies
• Intersectionality in literature
• Gender and genre studies
• Women’s writing and authorship
• Gender and language in literature
• Gender and media adaptation
• Comparative gender literature
• Gender and identity formation
• Gender and power discourse
• Gender in historical literature
• Gender and reader reception

Authors should read over the journal’s For Authors carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly specify the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title. The research field “Special Issue - Literature and Gender Dynamics” should be selected during your submission.

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Guest Editor:

Dr. John William Maerhofer

Rutgers University, USA

For further questions or inquiries, please contact Editorial Assistant at [email protected].