Women’s Space and Men’s Space

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.

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