Jeanette Winterson is defined as a postmodern writer. Her female characters not only disrupt the conventional paradigm of patriarchy, but also create new female worlds through the use of the fairytale and the fantastic. She maintains a suspended view towards authoritarian powers – religion and the family. Furthermore, she subverts the notion of the real and fantastic worlds, and it is through the use of fantasy that she deconstructs reality and creates a new world imagined by women and lesbians.

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房智慧Chih-Hui Fang

英國Exeter大學英國文學博士
現任亞洲大學外國語文學系助理教授
專長英美文學、性別研究與文化研究
曾翻譯 Sociology 社會學, 第九版, Schaefer, R. T. (台北：麥格羅‧希爾 McGraw Hill, 2005)
出版 Lesbian Identity in British and Taiwanese Contemporary Novels( Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010)、長篇小說《黃熙》(2012)以及其他關於性別議題的文章與專書

劉鶴群He-Chiun Liou

英國Bristol大學社會政策博士
現任亞洲大學社會工作學系副教授
專長貧窮、社會排除、原住民族福利研究
經歷：台灣社會政策學會理事、台灣家庭希望發展協會理事長
曾翻譯 Sociology 社會學, 第九版, Schaefer, R. T. (台北：麥格羅‧希爾 McGraw Hill, 2005)