Sökning: "male myths"

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  1. 1. The World of the Sumerian Mother Goddess : An Interpretation of Her Myths

    Författare :Therese Rodin; Eva Hellman; Mattias Gardell; Jakob Andersson; Britt-Mari Näsström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sumerian mother goddess; Mesopotamia; myth; Ninḫursaĝa; Ninmaḫ; Enki; kingship; midwifery; birth-giving; creation; death; sexual intercourse; gender; ideology; contextualization; History of Religions; Religionshistoria; Intercultural Studies;

    Sammanfattning : The present study is an interpretation of the two myths copied in the Old Babylonian period in which the Sumerian mother goddess is one of the main actors. The first myth is commonly called “Enki and Ninḫursaĝa”, and the second “Enki and Ninmaḫ”. The theoretical point of departure is that myths have society as their referents, i.e. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Vägval : lastbilsförare i fjärrtrafik - perspektiv på yrkeskultur och genus

    Författare :Eddy Nehls; Billy Ehn; Magnus Berg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gender; masculinity; working culture; reflexivity; truck-driver; male myths; trucker; gender equality; freedom; participant observation; haulage business; class;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is an ethnological study of the truck-driver profession and an examination of the prerequisites for sexual equality and diversity in the haulage branch. The aim is to: from a cultural perspective, with a special focus on gender and masculinity, study truck-drivers as an occupational group. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

    Författare :Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Myt, makt och möte : Om ett genuskulturellt rotsystem betraktat genom en skådespelarutbildning

    Författare :Ulrika von Schantz; Tiina Rosenberg; Lena Hammergren; Cecilia Sjöholm; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; actor education and gender; cutural hegemony; cultural heritage; power relations; psychoanalysis; hermeneutics; myths and discourses; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns a certain experienced (sub)reality, a reality which emerged from something “in between”, from a confluence of factors - the project Gender on Stage, a particular actor education programme and myself in the role of observer. The project Gender on Stage started as an interdisciplinary study between the National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm and the Department of Theatre Studies and the Department of Nordic Languages at Stockholm University. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Zum Löwen geboren : gender in Entwicklungsromanen aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten: Parzival, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Ahnung und Gegenwart, Netzkarte, Der junge Mann

    Författare :Katharina Strohkirch; Ortrud Gutjahr; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; German; tyska;

    Sammanfattning : This study focusses on the gender system in five “novels of development” (Entwicklungsroman) ranging from the medieval to the contemporary. The following works are examined: Parzival  by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Joseph von Eichendorff’s Ahnung und Gegenwart, Netzkarte by Sten Nadolny and Botho Strauß’ Der junge Mann. LÄS MER