Sökning: "The New Woman"
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26. Existens och temporalitet : om det samtida flyktingskapets komplexitet
Sammanfattning : In the beginning of the 1990's Swedish immigration policy, which bad been considered liberal and generous, became increasingly restrictive. A number of domestic as well as international factors led to new restrictions that particularly affected Bosnians with Croatian passports who applied for asylum. LÄS MER
27. "Who Should Know but the Woman": Sexuality, Marriage and Motherhood in the Utopian Novels of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sammanfattning : The revival of critical interest in the writings of the early twentieth-century American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman is linked to the emergence of a second wave of struggle for women's liberation in the 1960s and 70s. Before this, Gilman's work, in particular her short stories and novels, remained neglected or forgotten in the literary histories of modern American literature. LÄS MER
28. Proba the Prophet: Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
Sammanfattning : The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betitia Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few extant Latin texts from antiquity by a woman writer, but it is also one of our oldest Christian Latin poems; it is an early example of cultural amalgamation of the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman exegetical and literary traditions in that it is almost exclusively composed with verses from Virgil’s Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues, but narrates key episodes from the Old and New Testament. LÄS MER
29. I want to stay : Local community and prisoners of war at the dawn of the eighteenth century
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about war captivity in the early eighteenth century. It is also about the ways in which early modern local communities negotiated their boundaries towards the outside world. The resident populations’ interaction with prisoners of war (POWs) offers unique perspectives on how local communities handled wartime migrants. LÄS MER
30. Drömmen om kamratsamhället : Kvinnliga medborgarskolan på Fogelstad 1925-35
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with ideas and visions of female citizenship at the time when Swedish women obtained the right to vote.Sources used are school archive material, school diaries, newspaper articles, letters, autobiographies, personal records, lecture manuscripts and notes etc. LÄS MER
