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1. Den moraliska kroppen : Tolkningar av kön och individualitet i 1800-talets populärmedicin
Sammanfattning : The 19th century is often described as a period when sexual differences were strongly accentuated in medical interpretations. While this is not an inaccurate description, it is in need of greater nuance. For one thing, notions of the male are usually forgotten in the process. LÄS MER
2. Creating the Revolutionary Heroines : The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century)
Sammanfattning : Representing revolutionary terrorists as heroes and martyrs was a typical feature of the mythology of the Russian revolutionary underground at the beginning of the 20th century. This mythology described Underground Russia, the world of the revolutionaries, as an ideal country inhabited by ideal people. LÄS MER
3. Bilder av kvinnor och kvinnlighet : genus och kroppsspråk under övergången till kristendomen
Sammanfattning : Gender is a process, a journey. It is in constant change, built up and altered by people who live itSaltering them. In this process, material culture is used both as an agent and as an object of representation.Gotlandic picture stones are the point of departure for this particular gender journey. LÄS MER
4. Ungkarlsflickor, kamrathustrur och manhaftiga lesbianer : Modernitetens litterära gestalter i mellankrigstidens Sverige
Sammanfattning : Women´s emancipation created and was created by modernity. During the Swedish interwar period this process was depicted in contemporaneous novels written by and about women. These novels make up about three per cent of the fictional prose published at the time, but they still constitute a blind spot in Swedish literary history. LÄS MER
5. Recontextualising ageing as a choice : A critical approach to representations of successful ageing
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the intersection between representations of ageing femininities, empowerment, and oppression in marketing and advertising practices, within the context of successful ageing. In the current era of population ageing, debates on gender and ageing are becoming more pronounced. LÄS MER