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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-, et al.
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Lady Audley's secret, gender and the representation of emotions
- 2013
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In: Women's Writing. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0969-9082 .- 1747-5848. ; 20:4, s. 441-457
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The relation between gender, emotion and normative ideals is a prominent theme in British sensation fiction of the 1860s, and a central concern in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novel Lady Audley’s Secret (1862). But despite critical assent concerning the importance of emotions in the text, there are no focused studies of their meaning and narrative function. This study explores how representations of anger and shame convey gender specificity and how the way characters express and perform emotions interplay with constructions of social power in the novel. Braddon’s work contains more examples of women than men exhibiting signs of anger and more instances of men than women showing shame which means that anger might be understood as female and shame as a male quality in the text. The contexts where these emotions occur indicate the opposite, however. Women displaying anger are shown to transgress gendered conduct codes, whereas men mostly experience shame because of women’s misbehaviour and as their guardians. Although the distribution of instances when male and female characters show anger or shame could initially be understood as a manifestation of the disruptive qualities of the sensation genre, such an interpretation is undermined by the gendered relations between emotional expression, power and control in the novel.
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- Wallin Wictorin, Margareta, 1958-, et al.
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Women’s liberation : Swedish feminist comics and cartoons from the 1970s and 1980s
- 2019
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In: European comic art. - New York Oxford : Berghahn independent publishing. - 1754-3797 .- 1754-3800. ; 12:2, s. 77-105
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, publication of original feminist comics started in the 1970s and increased during the following decade. This article describes and analyses the Swedish feminist comics published in the Swedish radical journals Kvinnobulletinen and Vi Mänskor, as well as in the Fnitter anthologies. These comics, representing radical feminism, played an important role as forums for debate in a time when feminist comics were considered avant-garde. The most prominent themes were, first, the body, love and sexualities and, second, the labour market and legal rights. The most frequent visual style was a black contour line style on a white background, recalling the comics of Claire Bretécher, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Franziska Becker. Humour and satire, including irony, were used as strategies to challenge the patriarchy and to contest the prevailing idea that women have no sense of humour.
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- Nordenstam, Anna, et al.
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Lättläst - en demokratifråga
- 2018
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In: Utbildning och Demokrati. - Örebro : Örebro universitet. - 1102-6472 .- 2001-7316. ; 27:3, s. 35-52
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Easy reading novelsfor young people have increased rapidly during the last years. Authors,publishers, librarians and teachers regard the novels a tool for teaching,and the books are advocated to offer children and teenagers that areconsidered demotivated and poor readers suitable texts. The democraticargument is vital for the text type is, i.e. that everyone has the right tohave access to literary texts. From a critical literacy perspective, the aimof this article is to highlight and discuss aspects of democracy in Swedishclassrooms. The empirical material consists of 18 interviews with authorsand publishers and text analysis of 17 novels with material for students andteachers. The article shows that authors and publishers use the democraticargument heavily when advocating for the text type. The novels show agender stereotype pattern and the instructions encourage an efferent reading. The article argues that it is important to have a critical perspective ifusing the easy readers in the classroom.
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- Graeske, Caroline
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Bortom ödelandet : En studie i Stina Aronsons författarskap
- 2003
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis deals with the writing of Stina Aronson. The main objective is to study how Aronson (1892–1956) developed as a writer in a contempory cultural context, as well as to revise the image of Aronson as a provincial writer. Aronson’s literary output stands at the centre of the investigation, and a crucial task has been to study how gender affected her work as an author.It took a long time for Aronson to find her footing in the literary field, and the different chapters of the thesis correspond to fresh starts and sudden turns in her writing. Generally speaking, Aronson was sensitive to the shifts and changes in literary sensibility. In the 1920s she adheres to an idyllic aesthetic, characteristic of the period, whereas in the ’30s she approaches more modernist modes of writing. Not until the 1940s was Aronson finally recognised as a major writer. Her writing now became devoted to the lives of people in a remote part of the country, while she employed different idioms. This resulted in what this thesis theorises as a dialectical mode of narration, enabling the narrator to observe a rural, far northern community from the inside and outside simultaneously.Marginality, in class as well as gender terms, is a consistent motif in Aronson’s fiction. In both her early and late work one finds powerless, eccentric characters who experience great difficuly in securing a position in society. The gap between the haves and have-nots is a recurring theme, as is the narrator’s desire to overcome this disparity.In her later work, one discerns a civilisational critique of the privilege to define others. Aronson’s contrasting ideal is that of tolerance towards strangeness, difference and alterity, in terms of novelistic content as well as narrative technique. In this way, her work takes an ethical turn that underscores the equal worth of all human beings and, as a consequence, modifies the received image of Aronson as a provincial writer.
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- Öhman, Anders, 1953-
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Äventyret och historien
- 2009
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In: Kulturhjälten. - Stockholm : Atlantis bokförlag. - 9789173533126 ; , s. 271-284
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