Sökning: "Body ideals"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 60 avhandlingar innehållade orden Body ideals.

  1. 1. The Sensational Body : A Spectatorial Exploration of the Experience of Bodies on Stage in Circus, Burlesque and Freak Show

    Författare :Jonas Eklund; Meike Wagner; Camilla Damkjær; Helen Stoddart; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; circus; new circus; contemporary circus; burlesque; neo-burlesque; boylesque; freak show; sideshow; bodies; phenomenology; spectatorship; popular culture; performance analysis; autoethnography; experience; body mind; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : At the end of the 20th century, the three genres circus, burlesque, and freak show were revived after a long period of decline. Seemingly something in the genres still has a strong appeal to the spectators. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Looking good : a study of gendered body ideals among young people

    Författare :Carita Bengs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; body ideals; young people; gender; consumer culture; ideal images; advertising; mass; Kroppskultur; Kroppsuppfattning; Ungdomar;

    Sammanfattning : The main objective of this thesis is to study how social and cultural norms regarding body and appearance are perceived and interpreted by young people. This is done by studying both how these perceptions affect young people and how the body is controlled and altered through practices such as dieting, exercise, plastic surgery and the use of steroids. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Kraftkarlar och knockouts : Kraftsporter, kropp och klass i Sverige 1920–1960

    Författare :Emma Pihl Skoog; Johnny Wijk; Eva Blomberg; Ulrika Holgersson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; power sports; boxing; weightlifting; bodybuilding; class; body; manual work; workerism; masculinity; kraftsporter; boxning; tyngdlyftning; bodybuilding; klass; kropp; kroppsarbete; arbetarism; maskulinitet; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis analyses representations of body and class, and their wider ideological meaning, in Swedish power sports from 1920 to 1960. Boxing and weightlifting – sports dominated by manual workers – are chosen as study objects. The sources used are magazines connected to the power sports, and autobiographies by four prominent athletes. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Heterosexual Havana : Ideals and hierarchies of gender and sexuality in contemporary Cuba

    Författare :Silje Lundgren; Mona Rosendahl; Britt-Marie Thurén; Hugh Beach; Nadine Fernandez; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Havana; Vedado; Cuba; heterosexuality; gender; sexuality; eroticism; masculinity; homosociality; hierarchy; hierarchization; ‘cultural level’; sexual politics; sexual education; piropos; reggaetón; body; soap opera; Habana; Vedado; Cuba; heterosexualidad; género; sexualidad; erotismo; masculinidad; homosocialidad; jerarquía; jerarquización; ‘nivel cultural’; política sexual; educación sexual; piropos; reguetón; cuerpo; telenovela; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : Drawing on two periods of ethnographic fieldwork in Vedado, Havana, in 2004–2007, this dissertation analyses the interconnections between gender, sexuality, and heterosexuality. With theoretical inspiration from the works of Stevi Jackson and Beverley Skeggs, it discusses how the logics underlying heterosexual relations also regulate hierarchical gendered ideals. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Som folk är mest : Könsideal i svenska kontaktannonser 1890–1980

    Författare :Josefin Englund; Maria Ågren; Karin Hassan Jansson; Ulrika Holgersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender ideals; Classifieds Personal ads; 20th century; Sweden; Welfare; State Everyday Life; Gender Contract; Breadwinner Ideal; Homemaker Ideal; Parenting; Body ideals; Leisure and Gender; Personal interests and qualifications; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates 5,000 descriptions of men and women in search for a life partner of the opposite sex through classifieds 1890-1980. The advertisers’ descriptions of who they are and what they want sketches a picture of the expectations everyday people have had on how men and women should be over almost a hundred years. LÄS MER