Women's Space and Men's Space

Acknowledgements 7

Katarzyna Ostalska – “You Grant Me Space, You Grant My Space:” The Gender of Women’s Own Rooms 9

SECTION ONE: THE GENDERED SPACE OF LITERATURE 17

Jędrzej Tazbir – A Descent into Departure and an Exploration of Absence – Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves as a Portrayal of the Space of Literature 19
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska – A White Room in a Gothic Manor. Spaces of the Heroine in Adelheid by Vladimír Körner 33
Karolina Marzec – Defying Genre Stereotypes in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and A Little Princess 41

SECTION TWO: SPACE, VISION AND A GENDERED PLACE 53

Marta Olasik – Towards Lesbian Studies in Poland 55
Magdalena Banasiewicz and Jan Rusek – Gender Stereotypes and the Place Identity 73
Zofia Piotrowska-Kretkiewicz – From the Kitchen to the World – Changes of Women’s Status and Attitudes on the Example of the Mexican Indian Villages in the La Huasteca Hidalguense Region 85
Katarzyna Wojtanik – Space, Shape and Movement in Signing and the Gendering of Visual Languages 99

SECTION THREE: THE GENDERING OF SPACE AND CULTURE 117

Agnieszka Kurzawa – Transgressing the Spaces in Film Adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil 119
Antonina Kuras – Witches Now and Then: The Image of a Witch and Differences in the Perception of Female Witches During Sixteenth, Seventeenth Centuries and Nowadays 125
Joanna Trojak – Jackie, Marilyn or Someone Different − Male Constructed Myths of 1960’s Women in TV Series Mad Men 133