Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY Bucharest April 22-24, 2016 DIMITRIE CANTEMIR CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY BOARD Professor Momcilo Luburici, President of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Professor Corina Adriana Dumitrescu, President of the Senate of the Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Professor Cristiana Cristureanu, Rector of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Professor Georgeta Ilie, Vice-Rector, Research Department, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Associate Professor Anna Babka (University of Vienna) Professor Marianne Baudin (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris XIII) Professor Bouchra Benbella (Dhar EL Mehraz Fès) Associate Professor Mónica Bolufer University of Valencia Associate Professor Frédéric Canovas (Arizona State University) Associate Professor Ana-Maria Chisega-Negrilă (Carol I University) Professor Cyra Akila Choudhury (Florida International University) Professor Claire M. Crabtree (University of Detroit) Associate Professor Zoe Dirse (Sheridan College Toronto) Associate Professor Carmen Duţu (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Associate Professor Anh Duong Kim (The Vietnam Women’s Academy) Associate Professor Corrine Fournier-Kiss (University of Fribourg) Professor Arianne M. Gaetano (Auburn University) Associate Professor Susanne Hochreiter (University of Vienna) Associate Professor Nancy Honicker (Université de Paris VIII) Associate Professor Nancy Isenberg (University of Rome III) Professor Greg Kucich (University of Notre Dame) Professor Justine Legrand (Paris Sorbonne University) Professor Hélène Lenz (Université de Strasbourg) Researcher Ph.D. Isabel Lousada (Nova University, Lisbon) Professor Ines Sanchez de Madariaga (Technical University of Madrid) Associate Professor Miho Matsugu (DePaul University) Professor Pamela McCauley Bush (University of Central Florida) Professor Ileana Mihăilă (University of Bucharest) Professor Katja Mihurko Poniz (University of Nova Gorice) Professor Anne Marie Miraglia (University of Waterloo) Professor Mechthild E. Nagel (State University of New York, Cortland) Dr. Barbara Nelson (Ph.D. University of Michigan, University of Bucharest) Associate Professor Efstratia Oktapoda (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) Dr. Arnaud Paturet (CNRS/ENS, Paris) Associate Professor Agata Popescu (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Professor Najib Redouane (California State University, Long Beach) Professor Klas Roth (Stockholm University) Associate Professor Rui Shen (United States Naval Academy) Professor Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College) Associate Professor Mădălina Tomescu (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Professor Brigitte Urbani (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) Professor Susanne Maria Weber (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Professor Carolyn Wells Kraus (University of Michigan-Dearborn) PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ramona Mihăilă, Professor Ph.D. (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) PROGRAM ORGANIZERS Gabriela Iliuţă, Associate Professor Ph.D. (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Mihaela Mateescu, Assistant Professor Ph.D. (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Maria Cernat, (Associate Professor Ph.D. (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Roxana Mareş, Assistant Professor Ph.D.c. (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Maria Boatca, Assistant Professor Ph.D. (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Cristina Sârbu, MA student (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Paula Băloiu, MA student (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Anca Ionescu, student (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Adriana Alistar, student (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) Irina Mocanu, student (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University) CO-ORGANIZERS Sara Hunziker, independent scholar Ph.D., Zurich Isabel Lousada, Researcher Ph.D. (Nova University, Lisbon) Luiza Oancea, Assistant Professor Ph.D. (University of Bucharest) Ludmila Branişte, Associate Professor Ph.D. (Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi) Gina Nimigean, Assistant Professor Ph.D. (Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi) PARTNERS GenderSTE – Science, Technology, Environment, GENDER, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT – GENDERSTE, TN 1201 COST PROJECT The National Research & Development Institute for Textiles and Leather, Bucharest Women Writers in History, Huygens Institute, the Hague, The Department of German Studies (University of Vienna), Département d’Études des Pays Anglophones (DEPA), University Paris VIII, Paris-Sorbonne University New University of Lisbon -Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - CICS.NOVA -Inter- disciplinary Centre for Social Sciences The Vietnam Women’s Academy Department of Romanian as a Foreign Language, Faculty of Letters, Al. I. Cuza University, Iași Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, SUNY Cortland, New York The Contemporary Science Association (New York) The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (New York) Addleton Academic Publishers (New York) CONTENTS Program 07 Abstracts 27 Participants 87 THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY Conference Program Day Day 1, (22 April) Day 2, (23 April) Day 3, (24 April) 10.00 Opening remarks Registration Parallel sections 10.30 Room 130 Gender Feminine Repre- Gender Keynote Speech Keynote Speech and senta- Readings – 10.30 Mechthild Nagel Susanne Hochreiter Masculine tions in Contemporary 12.00 Gender and the Law “Love. Respect. Conchita“ or: Queering Europe Roles Society Intersections Room 130 Room 130 Room 130 Room Room 122 121 Closing remarks 12.00 Lunch break Lunch break Room 130 14.00 Trip Parallel sections Parallel sections Women’s Gender Gender Representation in Feminine Identity 14.00 Women’s Spaces Roles in Representatio Romanian Politics – Identities Representa- 15.30 in Theatrical Private and ns in Pluralist Underrepresentation Reflected in tions of Discourse Public Contexts versus Positive Literature Gender Room 121 Spaces Room 130 Discrimination Room 130 Room 121 Room 122 Room 71 15.30 Coffee break Coffee break 16.00 Parallel sections Parallel sections Women’s Gender Gender- Gender Representation in Women 16.00 Representa- Related “They wrote Representations Romanian Politics – Writers in a 17.30 tions in Issues in too” in Pluralist Underrepresentation Transnational French Linguistics Room 121 Contexts versus Positive Context Spaces Room 122 Room 130 Discrimination Room 130 Room 121 Room 71 7 THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY April 22, 2016 Opening remarks 10.00-10.30 Room 130 Georgeta Ilie, Vice Rector, Research Department, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Ramona Mihăilă, Dean of Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University 10.30- 11.30 Plenary lecture Mechthild Nagel Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, SUNY Cortland, New York Gender and the Law Room 130 9 THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY Representations in Pluralist Contexts Chair: Athena Enderstein Room 130 Estella Ciobanu (Ovidius University, Constanţa) En-gendering Knowledge, Gendering Western Society: The Politics of Gender in Biomedical Representation at the Turn of the Millennium Andrei Horațiu Ionescu (University of Bucharest) Women in Public Television Ramona Dima (University of Bucharest) The Homophobic Attitudes and the Romanian Media: Case Study on Several Queer Cultural Products Andreea Paris (University of Bucharest) Dislodging Moloch’s Masculinity in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Codruţa Mirela Stănişoară (University of Craiova) Of Colour and Gender in the African American Women’s Writing 10 THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY Women’s Spaces in Theatrical Discourse Chair: Carmen Ghinea Room 122 Iulia Waniek (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) Gender Trouble in Classical Japanese Literature: Transvestite Characters in Heian Monogatari Oana-Alis Zaharia Popescu (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) Gender, Translation and the System of Patronage in Elizabethan England Codruţa Badea (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) The Role of the Masks in Theatrical Representations Sara Hunziker (independent scholar Ph.D., Zurich) Of Different Types of Femininity in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Silvia Tita (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) Defining Female Identity through Playing Cards in the Late Sixteenth Century 11 THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY Women’s Representation in Romanian Politics – Underrepresentation versus Positive Discrimination Chair: Maria Cernat Room 71 Dan Mihalache (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) Gender Quotas – Is This a Possible Solution for Gender Equality in Politics? Marcela Monica Stoica (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) The Impact of Recent Political and Social Transformations on Political Efficiency and Participation of Women in Romania Sonia Cristina Marghioala (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) Women in Politics – Social Representations and Media Representations Sabin Drăgulin (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) Gender Quotas – A Form of Democratization of the Romanian Political Parties Ilarion Țiu (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) Stereotypes and Representations of Women in TV Ads in Romania 12 THE GENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY “They wrote too” Chair: Isabel Lousada Room 121 Voices (un)heard Luciana Deplagne (UFPB/CAPES/CICS.NOVA - UNL) Women of Letters and (in) Libertarian Struggles: Presentation of the translation in Portuguese of the theatre