ABSTRACT
This personal-political essay, which concludes with a set of poems, addresses multi-layered entanglements of gender and identity in ancient and recent literature, science, and life itself. The subject matter is stark: jobs, pensions, refugees, imprisoned women, the Medea figure. The chapter emphasises that Gender Studies has been the pioneer academic discipline highlighting the universal interdependence of gender and social structure and urges for further vertical and horizontal incorporation of gender references. Gender inequality is not an “issue” that needs to be “resolved” but a variable that needs to be eliminated.
