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The rhetoric of objectivity and the Eichmann case

AZ OBJEKTIVITÁS RETORIKÁJA ÉS AZ EICHMANN-PER

Author(s): Dávid Kaposi / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Adolf Eichmann;objectivity;memory

This paper treats the trial of Adolf Eichmann as a discursive product. Instead of examining it along traditional psychological concerns (what does he remember?, how proper his memory is? etc.) the traditional concept of memory gains a discursive emphasis in this study. I turn to questions like „how Eichmann’s ’memory’ is constructed throughout the trial?”, „what sort of versions and counter-versions do exist in the discursive field?”, „what kind of consequences do they entail?” and so on. To sum up, the discursive approach treats remembering, and memory-talk (that is, talking about remembering and memory) as a vital means of the constructions of identities. Thus, its emphasis is on meaning, discursive practices, rather than purely mental procedures and stable context.

From Border to Icon

From Border to Icon

Author(s): Biljana Dojčinović / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The first novel by the contemporary Serbian woman author Ljubica Arsić, Čuvari kazačke ivice (Guardians of the Kazak Border), was published in 1988 and reprinted in 1997 and 2002. However, due to a set of various unfavorable circumstances, it remained almost unknown to a wider audience until the second reprint. The novel’s relative unfamiliarity may partly be attributed to the fact that at the time of its first publication there existed no appropriate theoretical language or framework to adequately account for its nomadic spirit. Unlike Guardians of the Kazak Border, Arsić’s second novel, Ikona (Icon), published in 2001, aroused immediate interest amongst readers, critics and the media, winning one prize when only in draft and another after publication. There was a lapse of thirteen years between the publication of these novels, during which time important political, ideological and economic changes took place. Although it seems tempting to ascribe the differences between them to this fact, the situation is much more complicated and interesting.

Developing Research Writing by Videoconference

Developing Research Writing by Videoconference

Author(s): John Morgan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Videoconference; research writing; support for students and teachers; methodology;

The author outlines a detailed range of practical measures to ensure the success of using videoconferencing to develop research writing. The examples given highlight the technical challenges, but effective solutions and measures are presented. Clear parameters are listed and explained in using videoconferencing, and the importance of grounding parameters such as co-presence, visibility and audibility is stressed. The importance of establishing a community focus of support with both students and teachers can help with key issues of giving, receiving and acting on feedback. The article features detailed feedback from students on the effectiveness of the programme.

VC Technology: Master or Servant of Education?

VC Technology: Master or Servant of Education?

Author(s): Anjuli Pandavar / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Videoconferencing; education; using technology in education;

The author underlines the importance of having a clear rationale for using videoconferencing. A detailed case study illustrates the pitfalls and challenges of technology and looks at key examples of mismatching. These include mismatches between the different expectations of students and teachers, between theory and practice, between desired aims and actual outcomes, and between the ideal applications and actual limitations of the technology on offer. The article discusses a range of problems and issues but also points to solutions and workarounds. It emphasises the importance of considering not only how technology is used and which type is chosen but also why technology is used at all.

Figures of Hypocrisy

Figures of Hypocrisy

Author(s): Przemysław Uściński / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Charles Dickens; Utilitarianism; hypocrisy; pity; poverty; metonymy; parody; allegory

In Charles Dickens’s "Hard Times" (1854), the discourse of facts and figures is exposed as a mask of narrow-minded utilitarianism that promotes a morality blind to anything but statistical data. Parody and multi-layered irony allow Dickens to expose such reductive logic as hypocritical, demonstrating how the novel’s villains discredit charity and pity as unsound only to replace them with a pseudo-scientific reverence for practicality. This article examines the textual devices through which Dickens exposes such hypocrisy, also by looking at the intertextual references in the novel and some earlier satirical writings about hypocrisy, which often link this vice with pity (as William Blake so frequently does), and with the response to poverty (as in the case of, for instance, Henry Fielding and Percy Bysshe Shelley). It also discusses the aesthetics of the novel in terms of its use of metonymy and allegory, which help Dickens to build a grim, fable-like narrative that challenges the reductive worship of utility and appreciates the value of kindness and compassion.

Corporate financing

Corporate financing

Author(s): Sebastian Bodu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: acquisition of the own shares; contributions; company; corporate finance; currency; debt; financial assistance; leverage buyout; management buyout;

Two are the external sources of corporate financing: equity and debt. These are exclusive and can be combined in turn (other sources of external financing no longer exist, but only variants thereof). Capital with which a company is financed is its engine, no company being able to operate without capital regardless of the industry. Funding may be private or public. Private financing is provided through banking credit or equity contracted through direct negotiation with investors. Each mode of financing has advantages and disadvantages, not only in terms of financial costs (direct) but also indirect costs. Internal funding source is self-financing, i.e. reinvesting the company's profit in- stead of distributing it in the form of dividends. Balancing the use of internal and external financing sources, as well as the share of an external source in relation to another external source, primarily depending on the cost of financing (direct or opportunity) is a difficult, important and complex decision. The more the company is and/ or the more attractive for investors, the more varied the range of financing options and the cost structure that is heavily influenced by rating agencies. Conversely, a small company without too many development prospects will not have access to all available sources in the market and will have to confine itself to small bank loans. A specific form of finance is the financial assistance. This is crucial in performing Leverage Buyouts or Management Buyouts. Although it was prohibited by the first form of the Second Companies Directive, now it is fully permitted provided that the company complies with the acquisition of its own shares, this being protected both the creditors and the shareholders. Unfortunately, Romania did not transpose the last form of the former Second Companies Directive (2006), not even after the recast or codification by Directive 2017/1132.

Defashionization for Sustainability: From Conspicuous to Conscientious Consumption Breaking Business Cycles for Environmentalism

Defashionization for Sustainability: From Conspicuous to Conscientious Consumption Breaking Business Cycles for Environmentalism

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Agrohoods, Biophilia; Business Cycle Theory; Capitalism; Capitalist societies

The time for defashionization has come. With the United Nations Conference of the Parties COP26 heralding the call for attention to sustainable fashion, society is ripe to question the whims of fashion’s impact on sustainability. Is the luxury moment of our time harmony with nature and practicing degrowth in recycling to cherish sustainability? Already in the historic political economy foundations of capitalism, workers are described to produce in order to consume. Classic business cycle theory and the creative entrepreneur portray a human-innate need for change and innovation as the spring feather of capitalism. In capitalist societies, there is a race for innovation of entrepreneurs and offering new products on a constant basis in order to evade the falling rate of profit. Capitalist constantly innovate in order to offer new products in markets and reap the highest rate of return and profit from consumers, who constantly want to change and have access to changing products. Producers of goods are in a competitive race for innovation and offering new products to ever-innovation-seeking consumers. The constant pressure to innovate and offer new products on the supply side and the constant production for a salary in order to consume the newest goods and services lie at the core of capitalist societies. Climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals but also the Green New Deals in the United States and Europe as well as the New Generation EU have formulated aspirational goals of sustainability. The circular economy and conscientious consumption have become the en vogue trends of our times. The novel Coronavirus crisis COVID-19 has also driven demand for rest, recovery and degrowth. COVID Long Haulers in particular appear to favor harmony with the environment in agrohoods driving trends of deurbanization but also biophilia trends that resemble nature in interior design and clean unprocessed nutrition. How is our classic understanding of business cycles’ reinvention drive and the innovative entrepreneurs’ creative destruction justified in light of sustainability pledges? Have we reached an age of luxury in the appreciation of environmentalism that forms a larger transcending Gestalt that benefits future generations? This article asks if the time is ripe for a defashionization of economic business cycles of reproduction and harmonize ecology with innovation. The paper also provides vivid examples of sustainability capitalism solutions, which prove that the Green New Deal aligns economic values with sustainability. The New Deals, degrowth, minimalism, biophilia and agrohoods are newest trends that appear to crowd out whims of ever-changing trends for rest in sustainable well-being.

Of Words and Water

Of Words and Water

Author(s): David Jenkins / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: archetypal imagery; pond; river; lake; ocean; Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au Voyage” and “Le Voyage”; Rimbaud’s “Le Bateau Ivre”; Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West”

To honor Professor Cholakova on the occasion of her 60th birthday, I am happy to contribute this study of some fifteen pages, which I call “Of Words and Water.” This essay touches on many of the areas suggested in the invitation for the Fest schrift: aesthetic, psychological, philosophical, and spiritual problems and their provisional mythopoetic solutions, in exemplary poems by two French symbolist poets – “Invitation to the Voyage” by Charles Baudelaire and “The Drunken Boat” by Arthur Rimbaud – and “The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens, and refers the understanding of archetype, as developed by Carl Gustav Jung and Northrop Frye, to comments by the poets themselves, and to other scholarly insights. The “academic excursus” is introduced by a personal and general introduction.

Lubiąż and Świdnica – two concepts of baroquisation of Silesian church interiors in the second half of the 17th century

Lubiąż i Świdnica – dwie koncepcje barokizacji śląskich wnętrz sakralnych w 2. połowie XVII wieku

Author(s): Paweł Migasiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Among the examples of baroquisation of church interiors in Silesia carried out or at least begun in the second half of the 17th century two stand out: the Cistercian Church in Lubiąż and the Jesuit Church in Świdnica. What they have in common is not just substantial scale, high artistic quality and use of numerous solutions previously unknown in Silesia, but, above all, French inspirations, which were rare in Habsburg lands in the 17th century and which reached Silesia via different routes. The furnishings of the Lubiąż church, preserved on site until the Second World War, was made in several stages, from the end of the tenure of Abbot Arnold Freiberger (1636–1672), through, largely, the tenure of Abbot Johannes Reich (1672–1691) and his successors in the 1690s and at the beginning of the following century. Initially, the main artist in charge of the project was Matthäus Knote, followed by Matthias Steinl – a designer and head of the workshop that produced most of the furnishings. Despite many novel solutions making the Lubiąż furnishings original and in some elements even “avant-garde” in stylistic terms, the very concept of baroquisation of the Lubiąż church is, as a whole, traditional. Although the furnishings do make up a regular, symmetrical composition, each of these “pieces of furniture” is an autonomous unit. By comparison, the other baroquisation, in the Jesuit Church, appears unique. It was carried out according to a design by the order’s sculptor Johann Riedel, who reached France during his study travel and learned many solutions used in that country. He came up with a concept according to which uniform furnishings for a vast majority of the interior were made in the 1690s and the first two decades of the following century. Unlike those of Lubiąż, the Świdnica furnishings draw on groundbreaking French solutions, which Riedel got to know in person, of the so-called décor extensif – with the main altar being linked to side altars by means of panelling, making up an extensive structure encompassing and organising the interior and giving it a Baroque character. This novel solution in Central Europe remained the only one of its kind in Silesia and was not imitated.

The Ending of Great Expectations According to South Park: A Science-fictional Revisitation

The Ending of Great Expectations According to South Park: A Science-fictional Revisitation

Author(s): Claudia Cao / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: adaptation;transposition;Charles Dickens;adaptation;South Park

The chapter investigates an episode of South Park dedicated to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, presenting it as a science-fictional rereading that modernizes the original story.

Inside Noise: Intersemiotic Translation and Metatheatre in Radio Drama

Inside Noise: Intersemiotic Translation and Metatheatre in Radio Drama

Author(s): Łukasz Borowiec / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: semiotics;metatheatre;radio drama;BBC

The chapter analyses how various semiotic systems work inside a radio play on the basis of the BBC radio production entitled Noise (2012) by Alex Bulmer.

Violence in textile: A closer look at the warrior shawls of Nagaland

Violence in textile: A closer look at the warrior shawls of Nagaland

Author(s): Rugmani Venkatadri / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Violence in textile; A closer look; warrior shawls; Nagaland;

India is akin to an ethnographic museum for the purpose of anthropological study. The nature of the diversity within Indian terrain itself gives rise to diversity in the following - Climate, Weather, Flora & Fauna as well as available resources. The connections between people and the landscapes they inhabit are very crucial, as each has an effect on the other. Human lifestyle is a consequence of efforts for continuous adaptation to these factors. Material culture is both a symbol and outcome of human lifestyle.

Languages of interwar progressivism

Languages of interwar progressivism

Author(s): Magdalena Bystrzak / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Friedrich Weinwurm; Czechoslovakia; Bratislava; housing culture; Unitas; Nová doba

Interwar Bratislava was a dynamic, multicultural, small city searching for its new identity. Architects, including Friedrich Weinwurm (1885–1942), created its contemporary, modern shape. The article focuses on the main Weinwurm's socially engaged projects (Unitas and Nová doba) in the context of the local urban development and progressive architectural trends in interwar Czechoslovakia.

THE CITY OF SARAJEVO AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL PLANNING

THE CITY OF SARAJEVO AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL PLANNING

Author(s): Rahman Nurković / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: city of Sarajevo: functions; development; human resources; physical planning;

This paper analyzes the city of Sarajevo as the focal point of the development of spatial planning. Thanks to its functions, the city of Sarajevo has, as often stressed, a focal significance in spatial planning. With the development of different branches of production activities, primarily industry and the production of handicrafts, cities organize the production of a variety of goods, not only within their borders but also in the wider surrounding area. A city is a specific form of human population whose size maintains the meaning of its functions in the area. In accordance with the socio-economic and other factors of development, the forms and dynamics of spatial planning of cities are different. In the city of Sarajevo, there are all the basic functions of human life (living in the community, working, supplying oneself, educating oneself, having leisure activities, and transport and communications) which affects the rapid changes in the appearance, structure and functions of spatial components. Based on the above facts, it can be seen that the area of influence of the city of Sarajevo can be differentiated into zones of varying degrees of socio-economic transformation and zones of functional connections with the city. This question is given a high priority in the world, as evidenced by the large number of scientific papers. In this paper, the attention will be devoted to the development as the focal point of regional planning of Sarajevo and its surroundings. Spatial planning is one of the most important contemporary features of the world. Space management makes it an essential element of rational and humane use of space and organization of vital functions, adjusting the planning with technical and technological development as a phenomenon of our times and the necessities of life of the population. Spatial planning is carried out on the basis of spatial and urban planning. This kind of spatial planning is the result of pronounced differences in development and lifestyle between cities and villages, hence there is the intense migration of population from rural areas to the city of Sarajevo. The increase in urban population ranges mostly within the dynamics of growth of the total population. The focus of spatial planning in terms of concentration of population, jobs and housing developments is moved to the edges and the suburban areas of Sarajevo. There also occur changes in the structure of population and degree of urbanization of Sarajevo from year to year. This primarily relates to the separation of urban settlements. It was therefore necessary to allocate these places according to the model which gives a more realistic picture of the number of urban settlements and the share of the urban population.

INFLUENCE OF TERTIARY ACTIVITIES ON LOCAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

INFLUENCE OF TERTIARY ACTIVITIES ON LOCAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Rahman Nurković / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Tertiary activities; Transformation; Rural development; Transition; Bosnia and Herzegovina;

The paper includes a detailed theoretical and practical analysis of spatial processes of tertiary activities in local and rural development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In recent period, particularly after 1995, in local development of municipalities and, in particular, in rural settlements of Bosnia and Herzegovina big spatial changes occurred thanks to fast development of tertiary activities, which strongly affected the transformation in rural settlements. Our research will be focused primarily on the local, rural development of settlements, expansion of new tertiary activities in rural settlements and on various housing constructions, and arrangement of traffic infrastructure. The mentioned processes strongly affect the contemporary spatial and functional structure of rural settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For analysis of a complex development of tertiary activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina elements of social, economic and physiognomic nature have been taken, which were special and significant for transformation, respectively for the changes of local and rural areas with orientation of spatial development of new economic activities. Bosnia and Herzegovina has significant difficulties in restructuring, but also good prospects to be fast included into the European economic courses.

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE EU INTEGRATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: MAJOR MACROECONOMIC CHALLENGES FOR THE ACCESSION PROCESS

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE EU INTEGRATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: MAJOR MACROECONOMIC CHALLENGES FOR THE ACCESSION PROCESS

Author(s): Zlatko Hurtić / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: EU Integration; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Macroeconomics;

The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina has adopted full integration of the country into the European Union (EU) as its major goal. This objective is supported by the large majority of population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, the EU membership requires from all governments to meet a number of so called socio-economic conditions to ensure harmonization with the EU regulations and procedures. These policies were adopted by the European Council in 1993 in Copenhagen and which are known as the “Copenhagen criteria”. The fulfilment of them requires from each candidate country to implement a number of sub-criteria to enable to its economy to endure all competitive pressures from the EU common markets once full membership is achieved. Accession process also requires from the candidate countries to combat poverty and social exclusion, and to reform their social protection systems on the basis of policy exchanges and mutual learning. Finally, candidate countries have to improve capacity for implementation of the EU cohesion policy (2007-2013) which has been designed to bring social cohesion and to reduce gap between the levels of development of various regions across the EU. Bosnia and Herzegovina has made significant progress in years after the 1992-1995 war. However, implementation of the key structural reforms has lagged behind, notably those related to privatization, building export base and improving competitiveness. As result, Bosnia and Herzegovina has reached the pre-war GDP per capita just three years ago. Despite all shortfalls, Bosnia and Herzegovina has substantial potentials for a continued economic growth. However, the slowness in implementation of key reforms, in particular the structural reforms, is placing significant limitations and posing risks for meeting key socio-economic criteria for the EU integration. Ongoing political crisis has hindered economic recovery. As result, the international agency Moody’s has lowered credit rating of the country from stable to risky citing the political crisis as the main cause of economic difficulties. There are no doubts that majority of population of BiH supports the EU aspirations as much there are no doubts that all member states of the EU support full integration of BiH into the EU. However, the road to EU does not come without cost. Serious institutional and legislative adjustments are required to be carried out by all accession countries and Bosnia and Herzegovina is no exception to this process. Nevertheless, while the process of institutional strengthening and legislative adjustments have taken place, strengthening of the macroeconomic and structural policies to support EU integration has not received proper attention neither by the public or governments. The economic agenda for the EU accession is well known and unavoidable. It will have to be tackled by all governments if further progress is to be made. Meeting Copenhagen criteria has been for all other accession countries a serious test of their preparedness for the full membership. These criteria are designed to strengthen competiveness of the accession country’s economy to make it able to endure competitive pressures of the EU common market once full EU membership is achieved. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina meeting of the socio-economic criteria will require highest possible commitment on the Government but also on the public side to implement difficult and painful reforms, first and foremost to complete unfinished transition agenda and to build export-led economy fully integrated into the EU common market. Otherwise, rising foreign debt due to borrowing from the IMF (close to commercial terms), growing budget deficits, unemployment and current account deficit together with weak mobility and flexibility of the labour market are serous treats to macroeconomic stability. Under these circumstances, reaching the accession targets related to meeting the Copenhagen criteria and preparing the Bosnian economy for the membership at the EU common market will become highly challenging if not unrealistic.

ATTITUDES TOWARD THE INFLUX OF ANGLICISMS IN THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE

ATTITUDES TOWARD THE INFLUX OF ANGLICISMS IN THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE

Author(s): Zhuzhuna Gumbaridze / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: equivalence; Anglicism; loan; meaning; influx; borrowing; barbarism;

The article explores the use of English lexemes in Georgian informational-analytical electronic journals and discusses different approaches to the influx of Anglicisms. The paper highlights the fact that attention-drawing strands through intensive use of English vocabulary in journalists’ speech leads to an encounter with a number of English terms that do not fit the current standard of normative speech in Georgian. Nevertheless, the paper asserts that the influx of English lexemes in the Georgian language is predominantly caused by speakers’ desire for economy of form. Instead of providing a partial semantic or explanatory equivalent in their native language, speakers attempt to cover a complex or abstract notion by a straightforward, laconic English lexeme. The study maintains the idea that such non-native units appear to be more cognitively secure and semantically valid. They operate from the solid foundation of the source language and contribute mainly to the formation of syntagmatic units with strong predictability of a new flow of loanword integration into Georgian.

SPECIFICS OF THE RETAIL NETWORK SPATIAL STRUCTURE IN THE PIEŠŤANY TOWN

SPECIFICS OF THE RETAIL NETWORK SPATIAL STRUCTURE IN THE PIEŠŤANY TOWN

Author(s): Miroslava Trembošová,Sandra Wiecková,Ivana Gálisová / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: retail network in the city of Piešťany; area parameter; stores (shopping centers, hypermarkets and supermarkets);

The retail network is a variable subsystem of a cultural landscape closely linked to a settlement structure that sensitively responds to changes in the social and economic situation and is a suitable indicator of the development of human society, the settlement system and the inner structure of the settlements. In the urban environment of post-socialist countries under the influence of globalization the retail network belongs to the most dynamic elements which are very variable in space. A substantial part was processed using statistical-mathematical methods results of which were necessary for the calculation of key demographic, retail – area parameter (m²/1000 inhabitants). Data based and results were processed in Microsoft Excel and map outputs in ArcGIS10.2 software. Our goal is to identify the spatial configuration of these indicators. At the same time, we deal with the processes and specifics of the retail network of the city of Piešťany, which are decisively involved in the modeling of its spatial structure, polycentrism, increase of disparities, commercial suburbanization. The development of the retail network in the city of Piešťany is significantly influenced by the following factors: purchasing power of residents and visitors, globalization impacts of supranational chains´ arrival, availability, synergy effect, development of new forms of selling, and self-government.

Our Greek Tragic Hope

Our Greek Tragic Hope

Author(s): Edith Hall / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Natalie Haynes; The Children of Jocasta; Colm Tóibín; House of Names; Greek tragedy; psychological challenges; adulthood; Electra; Oedipus; Antigone; Sophocles; Jocasta; Ismene; trauma; young women

Three years on from her debut novel "The Amber Fury" (2014), Natalie Haynes once again adapts Greek tragedy in ways designed to illuminate the psychological challenges facing teenagers and young adults. Where "The Amber Fury" is set in the contemporary world, "The Children of Jocasta" (2017) takes the readers to Bronze-Age Thebes. It retells the stories in Sophocles’ "Oedipus" and "Antigone" but from the perspectives of two women, Jocasta and Ismene, whose subjective experiences of trauma as very young women on the threshold of adulthood are too often overlooked. Colm Tóibín’s novel, "House of Names", is based on the myth of the house of Atreus and it uses the version told in Aeschylus’ trilogy "Oresteia". It is a masterpiece beneficial especially for those who have seen civil war or family trauma which are part of their experience of puberty and its aftermath. Both novels focus on the hardships and deprivations faced by the protagonists, with a ray of hope making the novels both therapeutic and emotionally sustaining.

Reconfigurations of Female Gender Performance and Proto-Radicalism in Rachel Crothers’ A Man’s World

Reconfigurations of Female Gender Performance and Proto-Radicalism in Rachel Crothers’ A Man’s World

Author(s): Furkan Tozan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: First-wave feminism; American women’s drama; egalitarianism; feminist ethics; sisterhood

The intersection of first-wave feminism and literature has been a well-trodden path in academic scholarship, especially after the hectic and generative political climate of the 1950s and 1960s which saw the first discursively replete emergence of identity politics. Despite electoral and legal gains being the primary goals of first-wave feminist movements in the West, an underlying subtler current co-existed that aimed beyond the explicit agenda of these movements, imagined a fuller realization of gender equality, and in so doing anticipated the radicality of second-wave feminism. Situated in the transitory period before the First World War, Rachel Crothers, one of the earliest female American playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote extensively on the theme of gender and tackled systemic social issues facing women from all walks of life. Her A Man’s World, first produced in 1909, centers upon the female protagonist Frank Ware who has adopted an orphan boy named Kiddie as an act of solidarity with his biological mother Alice Ellery. Alice was disgraced, suffered and died as a result of the embarrassment and abandonment by her then lover, Malcolm Gaskell whom Frank has been inadvertently involved with as a romantic partner. The play follows Frank’s struggles in the turn-of-the-century New York as a single mother and a prototypical modern independent woman. Reaching beyond the general feminist discourse of the period, the unembellished portrayal of a woman who has internalized equality as a core governing value functions to starkly contrast with the traditional modes of gender performance of the pre-war United States. This study argues that A Man’s World conceives—ahead of its time—a unique socio-cultural radicality by offering a defiantly variant woman of principle who refuses to negotiate for anything short of the structural change her convictions envision in the world while heralding the concepts of feminist sisterhood, ethics, and pedagogy that would gain ground decades later.