Conquering a Male Domain: The Female Spectator and The Pershyi Vinok

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10.2991/assehr.k.210525.009How to use a DOI?

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Literary Journalism, Eliza Haywood, Nataliia Kobrynska, Olena Pchilka, The Female Spectator, The Pershyi Vinok

Abstract

This research paper aims at giving a broad outline of pioneering journalistic projects in England and Ukraine – periodicals The Female Spectator and The Pershyi Vinok which were written by and for women. It surveys a scope of the two collections, the main genre forms, themes, characters as well as their significance in the history of English and Ukrainian literary journalism and literature in general. The authors hope that the article will find a wide audience interested in prominent and less known names of those women writers who not only opened up a new era of conquering the domain originally taken by men but contributed to the rise of literary journalism in both countries as well. By using recurring themes, motifs, myths the editors of the women’s journals Haywood, Kobrynska, Pchilka together with other women authors created heroines enabling the reader to see the patters of feminine behaviour and ponder over the problem of quest for female identity. The study clearly indicates that these fascinating journalistic projects hold a significant place in proto-feminist and feminist history of both countries considering the fact that they made women’s concerns sound palatable and important, assisted English and Ukrainian women to define their roles within the then social context and challenged the status quo of the deeply ingrained norms related to a woman’s place in society.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lyudmyla Lutsenko
AU  - Iryna Dyrda
AU  - Anna Tomilina
AU  - Maryna Maloivan
AU  - Iryna Zorenko
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/27
TI  - Conquering a Male Domain: The Female Spectator and The Pershyi Vinok
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on New Trends in Languages, Literature and Social Communications (ICNTLLSC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 68
EP  - 75
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210525.009
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210525.009
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