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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 78 avhandlingar innehållade ordet beauty.
1. Beauty Box : Filmstjärnor och skönhetskultur i det tidiga 1900-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The object of this dissertation is the relationship between film, fashion and beauty concerning different understandings of femininity, with reference to the establishment of the star system and the making of celebrity culture, and how these were expressed through magazines and commercial ads in early 20th century Sweden. The period of time framing the discussion, from fin-de-siècle and onwards with specific focus on the 1920s and 1930s, corresponds to the course of publication of the Swedish magazine Filmjournalen. LÄS MER
2. Shaped for beauty : Vocational and gendered subjectivities in private education for the beauty industry
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to answer the question: How are vocational, gendered subjectivities produced in vocational education for the beauty industry? Drawing on Foucault and poststructural feminist theory, this question is answered in four papers, in which the material consists of beauty-school recruitment and marketing material, interviews with skin and spa therapy students and observations of practical skin and spa therapy training. These are educational arrangements that are closely bound to the economic sector of the beauty industry, and they have remained remarkably unexplored. LÄS MER
3. Vackert och värdigt : Liturgiska textilier från svenska ateljéer 1880 - 1930
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the production of liturgical textiles in five Swedish studios between 1880 and 1930. It is based on a survey of what was delivered to and preserved in the buildings of the Church of Sweden, more than 4,000 recorded objects. LÄS MER
4. Skönheten och nyttan : Om synen på gymnasiesvenskans litteraturundervisning 1947-1985
Sammanfattning : The object of study is the ongoing discussions on upper secondary literature instruction during 1947-1985, the foundation era of the integrated Swedish school system. Publications from the Swedish Teacher Association have been the main source material. LÄS MER
5. Soviet People with Female Bodies : Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s
Sammanfattning : The everyday practices of maternity and beauty are important for the enactment of femininity. This dissertation deals with femininities created in the context of changing ideas about “normality” in Soviet Russia during the mid 1930s-1960s and explores a diversity of norms, discourses and rituals. LÄS MER