Sökning: "anti-slavery society"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden anti-slavery society.
1. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts
Sammanfattning : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. LÄS MER
2. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America
Sammanfattning : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. LÄS MER
3. Vems hand är det som gör? : En systertext om konst/hantverk, klass, feminism och om viljan att ta strid
Sammanfattning : Whose hand is making? And how can we understand craft practices in dialogue with society through making and objects? How do we understand objects that manifest resistance? This dissertation in artistic research explores craft practices within the fields of ceramics and textile, through the method and form of autoethnography, and on the basis of an intersectional perspective. It understands making as embodied experience and knowledge, conditioned, but not always bounded, by societal structures, and it documents the resistance against, and the resilience of, repressive structures, in dialogues and struggles where objects gain agency. LÄS MER
