This article aims to prove the inaccuracy of the queer reading of Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903). The paper shows how the queer theorist Eve Kosofsky misinterprets the character of John Marcher as concealing homosexuality. The paper is not just affirming that there are no signs of homosexuality in the selected work, but it also transforms the argument to show how James, as a psychotherapist, treats the anxiety and fear of his male protagonist who behaves strangely in a world full of sophistication. The article concludes that the queer reading of "The Beast in the Jungle" is imprecise and provides a new psychological reading which is based on Implosion Therapy. This new reading adds strength to the perspective which refuses to sexualize everything in James's work.

This paper constructs the mechanisms of feminist consciousness-raising and face to face feminism as a teaching and nurturing style of life in Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls from Ames (2009). The paper also constructs an argument that the Ames girls' less-political circle of consciousness-raising works as a social process that helps them learn from each other how to comprehend and name their experiences, and how to identify and assess their commonalities and differences. As findings, this study supports with evidence from text the powers of feminist consciousness-raising, which has been an important feminist practice since the beginning of the second feminist wave, not only in maintaining the mental and physical health of the ten women, but in helping the girls survive the challenges of their ever-changing society, build new identities and overcome their misfortunes as well.

This paper constructs the mechanisms of feminist consciousness-raising and face to face feminism as a teaching and nurturing style of life in Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls from Ames (2009). The paper also constructs an argument that the Ames girls' less-political circle of consciousness-raising works as a social process that helps them learn from each other how to comprehend and name their experiences, and how to identify and assess their commonalities and differences. As findings, this study proves with evidence from text the powers of feminist consciousness-raising, which has been an important feminist practice since the beginning of the second feminist wave, not only in maintaining the mental and physical health of the ten women, but in helping the girls survive the challenges of their ever-changing society, build new identities and overcome their misfortunes as well.