Sökning: "queer reading"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden queer reading.

  1. 1. Enahanda läsning : En queer tolkning av romancegenren

    Författare :Elin Abrahamsson; Hillevi Ganetz; Fanny Ambjörnsson; Claudia Lindén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Popular romance; gender; sexuality; queer theory; masturbation; mass-culture; femininity; heteronormativity; reading; repetition; temporality; gaze; Fifty Shades of Grey; Twilight; genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis investigates popular romance, a mass-cultural genre with a large female audience. Popular romance is often considered ”lowbrow” and is referred to by terms such as ”porn” and ”garbage”. The female reader of this so called “sentimental trash” is often portrayed as naïve and unworldly. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Reading Rap : Feminist Interventions in Men and Masculinity Research

    Författare :Kalle Berggren; Elisabet Näsman; Keith Pringle; Tora Holmberg; Chris Beasley; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; hip hop; rap lyrics; men and masculinity; feminist theory; intersectionality; queer theory; poststructuralism; feminist phenomenology; discourse analysis; cultural studies; popular music; gender; sexuality; race; class; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis explores how masculinity is constructed and negotiated in relation to race, class and sexuality in hip hop in Sweden. Theoretically, the study contributes to the increasing use of contemporary feminist theory in men and masculinity research. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Steel as the Answer? : Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006–2016

    Författare :Anna Bark Persson; Ulla Manns; Ann-Sofie Lönngren; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vikings; the North; the Nordics; masculinity; fantasy literature; queer reading; temporality; postfeminism; embodiment; vikingar; Norden; maskulinitet; fantasylitteratur; queer läsning; temporalitet; postfeminism; kroppslighet; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the motif of the popular Viking in contemporary Anglophone fantasy literature, with a focus on masculinity, power, embodiment,and sexuality. The study draws on queer-theoretical perspectives on masculinity and the method of queer reading, and approaches the Viking as at once bound up with the legitimization of normative and hegemonic forms of masculinity and open to (queer) negotiations and possibilities beyond normative male masculinities. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Navigating Female Power : (De-) Constructing the Space of the Immortal Threat in Homer’s Odyssey

    Författare :Paulina Partanen; Gabriella Beer; Jörgen Magnusson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Homer; Odyssey; Queer; Queer theory; Power; Space; Spatial analysis; Sexuality; Gender; Judith Butler; Jack Halberstam; Kim Knott; Circe; Calypso; Sirens; Scylla; Charybdis; Greek Myth; Monster.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to locate spatial manifestations of power, and acts of agency, by conducting a subversive reading of the female immortal threats in Homer’s Odyssey. With an aim to question preconceived notions on sexuality, gender and power, I draw on the theoretical perspectives of gender theorists J. Butler and J. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes : A Transfeminist Reading of Utopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film

    Författare :Wibke Straube; Cecilia Åsberg; Nina Lykke; Lann Hornscheidt; Susan Stryker; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Transgender studies; transfeminism; queer; gender; feminism; multisensorial cinema; haptic spectatorship; touch; hearing; seeing; exit scapes; sensible cinematic intra-activity; Trans Cinema; visual cultural studies; film theory; Transstudier; transfeminism; queer; genus; feminism; multisensorisk film; haptic spectatorship; beröring känsel; hörsel; seende; exit scapes; sensible cinematic intra-activity; trans cinema; visuella kulturstudier; filmteori;

    Sammanfattning : Trans Cinema and its Exit Scapes offers a critical and creative intervention into cultural representations of gendered body dissidence in contemporary film. The study argues for the possibility of finding spaces of “disidentification”, so-called “exit scapes” within the films. LÄS MER