Innovative Technologies in Social

The Portrayal of Marxist Feminism in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

Abstract: This study examines how dialogue, costume, and gesture characterize Jo, Meg, and Amy in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) and articulate gender inequality through Marxist feminism. Using a qualitative approach, 23 time-coded scenes were purposively selected from the film. All data were descriptively coded an...

Women’s Bodies Across Digital Narrative

This article aims to examine and explain how narratives of the objectification of women’s bodies are produced, circulated, and contested by authors and readers in Indonesian digital fiction. This phenomenon is analyzed by integrating Paul Ricoeur’s Narrative theory and Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist feminism. Rico...

Sita as the Archetype of Ideal Femininity: A Feminist Reassessment

This study examines the evolution of female representation from ancient literary traditions to contemporary digital technologies through a comparative analysis of Sita, the central heroine of the Ramayana, and Siri, a widely used artificial intelligence virtual assistant. Drawing upon feminist theory, cultural studies,...

“Virtue’s the Chiefest Beauty of the Mind”: Black Girlhood Needlework, Repetition, and Agency in 1830s Baltimore

Focusing on two samplers stitched by free Black girls in 1830s Baltimore, this article argues that formulaic forms of needlework are potent sites of cultural meaning and access points into the contexts of childhood stitchers. Situating these samplers alongside disciplinary debates in material culture, women’s history,...

Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies

Incel as an ideology of women’s victimization

This paper examines the incel phenomenon as a contemporary form of digitally mediated misogyny and explores the extent to which incel discourse exhibits ideological features. Drawing on theories of relative deprivation, frustration-aggression, hegemonic masculinity, and contemporary models of radicalization, the study...