Metamorphosis and Hybridity within The Firebird’s Nest by Salman Rushdie  Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed  Into different bodies. - Ovid, The Metamorphoses  ...

 Short analysis: The significance of gender in Milton's quest to 'justify the ways of God to men': Gender as a corrupting influence within Paradise Lost Can gender be a corrupting influence? Is all that is evil in Paradise Lost associated with the feminine? Or is Adam’s masculinity mirrored by Satan? This paper...

Exploring female sexuality and female agency in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (1748)  Active female sexuality always represents female agency: that is why it is feared. A discussion Gender “norms” dictated the eighteenth-century female as modest, demure and virtuous. Active female sexuality transgresses these social boundaries, proving women...

 ABSTRACT ‘What are my books but one plea against “man’s inhumanity to man” – to woman – and to the lower animals?’ – Thomas Hardy. Linking feminist and trans-human approaches this essay deals with the complex dynamics of power and status in Hardy’s representations...