Editorial

Marked with dual identity, the first issue of TM seeks to primarily engage in the relationship between women and authority, vested in literary and philosophical texts. The theme of marginalization of women by philosophical, myth- ological or sacred texts is given a different aspect in an article by Joanna Kazik, who examines the strategies in which medieval and early modern works exclude women from the community by turning them into a laugh- ing stock in seemingly playful jest. A different perspective on female authority is adopt- ed by Adam Sumera in the analysis of Ian McEwan's "Conversation with a Cupboard Man" and its film adaptation.