Gender - Culturised

Man Booker Prize 2017: ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ and the Limits of Politics in Fiction

by Rosemary Collins | Oct 3, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Arundhati Roy’s politics and her storytelling have always been intertwined. The Indian writer...

“I am not my reproductive system”: ‘Yerma’ at the Young Vic

by Georgina Wilson | Aug 30, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight

“Regret – not now, maybe later”, says the unnamed Her (Billie Piper). She thinks it might be a...

The Forgotten Brontë: Searching for Branwell

by Rosemary Collins | Aug 21, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

One of the defining images of the Brontë family, displayed on the cover of Juliet Barker’s epic...

Can Women be Doctors?: Regenerating Doctor Who

by Ruth Phillips | Aug 7, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Here is an anecdote from a friend: My sister, who is now actually a practicing doctor, when asked...

A Night Out On Stage: In Conversation with Eggs Collective

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Aug 5, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Features, Interviews, Performance

Eggs Collective consists of Sara Cocker, Lowri Evans, and Léonie Higgins. Based in Manchester they...

She-Hulk: Marvel’s Wonder Woman

by Rocco Thompson | Jul 27, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

As Wonder Woman lasso-of-truthed into theaters on June 2nd, film and comic geeks alike waited with...

She’s Got the Power: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power’ and Empowerment Feminism

by Katie Goh | Jul 21, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

The Power – winner of the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and critically lauded as The...

Four Alpha Males: A Different Take on Masculinity in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’

by Sorin Floti | Jul 18, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

Dictionary definitions of masculinity circle around having qualities or appearances traditionally...

Screening ‘Julius Caesar’: In Conversation with Phyllida Lloyd

by Alex Killeen | Jul 12, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance

Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...

Caesar on Parole: in Conversation with Jackie Clune

by Alex Killeen | Jul 10, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance

Jackie Clune plays the title role in Phyllida Lloyd’s latest production of Julius Caesar,...

Dancing While Black: In Conversation with Pauline Mayers

by Dzifa Benson | Jun 24, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Features, Interviews, Performance

For most of her life, dancer, choreographer, and theatre-maker Pauline Mayers has had to battle...

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: A Cult Hit?

by Victoria Fell | Jun 12, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

For those without kind and loving friends from whom you steal Netflix, let me introduce you to The...

Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl: Food and Femininity in ‘Raw’ and ‘The Vegetarian’

by Katie Goh | Jun 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

“Nope nope nope,”[1] said the tabloids, disgusted, “French horror film Raw has inspired such...

‘Girlboss’ and San Francisco: Location as a Narrative Device

by Bianca Jenkins | May 22, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Girlboss is a show for which I’ve been waiting a long time. Sophia Amoruso is one of retail’s most...

Androgynous Heresy: ‘JOAN’ at the Ovalhouse

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Apr 13, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight

JOAN: Milk Presents, in association with Derby Theatre Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) Aug 21-25,...

Can’t See the Wood for the Trees: The Mysterious Meaning of Medieval Penis Trees

by Elizabeth Wilson | Apr 9, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Ok, stop me if you’ve heard this before: “What shall we think about those witches who somehow take...

Le Gateau Chocolat: ‘Black’

by Max Adams | Apr 6, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight

The advertising for this production of Le Gateau Chocolat: Black features prominently a quote from...

Take It Away! It’s Horrible!: Bette Davis and Familial Terror

by Rocco Thompson | Mar 29, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“I was a legendary terror. I was insufferably rude and ill-mannered in the cultivation of my...

Mum’s on Top: Malcolm’s in the Middle

by Victoria Fell | Mar 26, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

I’m very close with my mother. Not Gilmore Girls’ Rory/Loralei levels of bonding over men and...

“Jam and Idleness”: Jam, Play and the Socialisation of Girls in ‘The Mill on the Floss’

by Eleanor Dumbill | Mar 13, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

The idea that eating fruit can somehow be connected to (im)proper notions of behaviour for women...

Demonising Women: The Enduring Medieval Conception of Witchcraft

by Elizabeth Wilson | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Think of a witch. Any witch. I’m willing to bet you’ve imagined some hideous old crone, bent over...

“I have nothing | Of woman in me”: Renaissance Tragic Women and the Performance of Gender

by Charlie Seymour | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance

It is tempting to see something masculine in the powerful women of Renaissance tragedy, to hold...

Brody Dalle: Punk Queen

by Victoria Fell | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance

2003 shaped my life. I finally reached double digits (plus the lofty heights of Year 6 to boot)...

Women in the Art World: Signs of Progress

by Nisha Desai | Mar 8, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Features

The Venice Biennale is one of the longest running cultural festivals in the world. Founded in...

Lorna Simpson’s ‘Twenty Questions (A Sampler)’: Photography’s Power Dynamics

by Eleanor Stoltzfus | Mar 8, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Features

Lorna Simpson first came to prominence as a conceptual artist in the mid-1980s, after graduating...

Joan of Arc on the English Stage: From Shakespeare to Shaw

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance

Joan of Arc has been a dominant figure in both medieval studies and in culture more generally,...

‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’: A Progressive Examination of Gender and Relationships

by Bianca Jenkins | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

There has been a fresh collection of female-led online television in the last few years. From the...

Nothing New Here: ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ and Female Desire

by Beth Longman | Mar 6, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

The final image with which we are left in “Fifty shades of Grey” is of Anastasia Steele, hair...

Undermining Morality: Exploring Sex in The Cinema of Paul Verhoeven

by Rocco Thompson | Feb 28, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my...

More Than Gender Trouble: ‘Twelfth Night’ at the National Theatre

by Max Adams | Feb 24, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight

In the National Theatre’s current production of Twelfth Night, showing until the 13th of May,...

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