Sökning: "female identity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 141 avhandlingar innehållade orden female identity.

1. 1. Den ensamma sjöjungfrun : Om Carina Rydbergs jagberättande ur ett genreperspektiv

   Författare :Tamara Andersson; Maria Jönsson; Elisabeth Hästbacka; Annelie Bränström Öhman; Anna Forssberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carina Rydberg; autofiction; autobiography; identity narrative; the Gothic; female Gothic; genre; Swedish literature; identity; gender; sex; femininity; monstrosity; female authors; transgression; the uncanny; intelligibility; Carina Rydberg; autofiktion; självbiografi; jagberättande; gotik; genre; svensk litteratur; identitet; genus; kön; femininitet; monster; kvinnliga författare; författarroll; transgression; det kusliga; das Unheimliche; begriplighet; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; gender studies; genusvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the two autobiographical novels Den högsta kasten (1997) and Djävulsformeln (2000) by Swedish author Carina Rydberg. Both novels generated lively public debate regarding how they ought to be read and understood, what genre they belonged to, and the ontological status of the narrating “I”. LÄS MER

3. 2. Just like couscous : Gender, agency and the politics of female circumcision in Cairo

   Författare :Maria Frederika Malmström; Marita Eastmond; Aud Talle; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; identity; gender; agency; embodiment; senses; body; sexuality; female circumcision; politics; social change; performativity; practice; political Islam; Egypt; Middle East; North Africa; anthropology; identity; gender; agency; embodiment; senses; body; sexuality; female circumcision; politics; social change; performativity; practice; political Islam; Egypt; Middle East; North Africa;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores how female gender identity is continually created and re-created in Egypt through a number of daily practices, of which female circumcision is central. In order to do so, the study inquires into the lived experiences and social meanings of female circumcision and femininity as narrated by women from lower class neighbourhoods in Cairo. LÄS MER

4. 3. Kraften att älska, makten att tjäna : religion, emancipation och den kvinnliga skapande kraften i Jeanna Oterdahls sagor 1908–1927

   Författare :Sun-Kyoung Choi; Maria Jönsson; Anders Johansson; Eva Heggestad; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fairy tale; religion; Lutheran doctrine of vocation; liberal theology; women’s emancipation movement; Fredrika Bremer Association [Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet]; Christian love; power; freedom; female creativity; women’s calling vocation; female identity; Jeanna Oterdahl; Fredrika Bremer; Emilia Fogelklou; Anna Sandström; Sophie Adlersparre; anxiety of authorship; Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan D. Gubar; artistry of women writers; gender studies; genusvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; barn- och ungdomslitteratur; literature for children and adolescents;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the Swedish author Jeanna Oterdahl (1879–1965), and the fairy tales and stories she wrote in the period 1908–1927. Oterdahl was a well-known Christian public intellectual in her day. LÄS MER

5. 4. Multiple meanings of female initiation. "Circumcision" among Jola Women in Lower Casamance, Senegal

   Författare :Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Senegal; Lower Casamance; Kalounaye; Jola; initiation; female circumcision; genital cutting; identity; gender; moherhood; Islam; ethnicity; agency; social change;

   Sammanfattning : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices of female "circumcision" and initiation in relation to identity and social change in contemporary Muslim Jola society, Senegal, West Africa. During the 20th century, clitoridectomy spread - allegedly as part of Islam - and became essential for a Jola woman's identity as a "real" woman and mother, and an important aspect of the women's initiation ritual. LÄS MER

7. 5. Roman Female Cognomina : Studies in the Nomenclature of Roman Women

   Författare :Tuomo Nuorluoto; Gerd V M Haverling; Olli Salomies; Christer Bruun; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Roman onomastics; ancient Rome; Roman women; personal names; Latin epigraphy; Roman epigraphy; Greek epigraphy; Latin linguistics; Latin; Latin;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the cognomina of Roman women. The cognomen was the latest component of the Roman onomastic system and in the course of the early first century CE it came to be the most important individual name of Roman citizens. LÄS MER