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- Berg, Linda, 1974-, et al.
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Balansreceptet: konsten att hantera hormoner i självhjälpslitteraturens hormonberättelser : [The Balance Recipe: The Art of Managing Menopause in Self-help Literature's Hormone stories]
- 2022
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Ingår i: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning. - Copenhagen : Københavns Universitet. - 0907-6182 .- 2245-6937. ; 34:2, s. 11-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The balance recipe: the art of managing menopause in the hormone stories of self-help literature In recent years, menopause as a phase of transformation has received great media attention in a Swedish context. It is then not only specifically concerning the time when menstruation ceases – but about a longer period of time when female bodies undergo an adjustment with a focus on hormonal changes. In books such as Hormonstark (Hormone strong) (2020), Perimenopower (2018) and Livet med klimakteriet (Life with Menopause) (2020), the stressed reader in the middle of the career receives knowledge, tips, ideas and inspiring stories about how to deal with the fluctuating hormones that are said to affect the body during menopause. In this article, we start from these books with a poststructuralist feminist perspective on narratives and body control on the hormone stories of self-help literature. The aim is to explore how the literature represents women's menopause and hormonal bodies in a broader sense, and how women are encouraged to act in relation to this. The results show that hormone narratives may have feminist potential, but that they primarily make menopause an individual rather than structural matter. Further, they also reveal a close resemblance between the hormonal narratives and a biocapitalist contemporary, with an aging female body as a lucrative threat.
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- Berg, Linda, 1974-, et al.
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Mensmakt & menopower : Det starka subjektets expansion i självhjälpslitteratur om övergångsåldrar och hormoner
- 2022
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Ingår i: Book of abstracts. - Karlstad : Karlstads universitet.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Menstruation och klimakteriet har fått förnyad aktualitet i Sverige: i radio, tv-program, poddar och på sociala medier har dessa övergångsåldrar fått stor uppmärksamhet under de senaste fem åren. Det märks inte minst i den självhjälpslitteratur som riktar sig till den menstruerande flickan och till kvinnan i klimakteriet. I bästsäljande böcker om hormoner och deras inverkan på våra kroppar får den medelålders kvinnan råd om hur hon kan hantera hormonsvägningar från pre- till post-menopaus på ett alltmer intrikat sätt. Parallellt får flickan i puberteten via handböcker om mens stärkande tips och råd om hur hon bäst kan bemästra den hormonella omställning som påverkar henne. I denna presentation sätter vi dessa berättelser i kontakt med varandra och reflekterar över vad de säger om vår samtids syn på övergångsåldrar och åldrande. Vad är det som ska undvikas? Vad är det som ska vinnas? Syftet är att utforska hur denna litteratur skildrar önskade och oönskade subjektspositioner – före, innan och efter den hormonella övergång som beskrivs. Vi återvänder till teorier om åldrande och sårbarhet. Resultaten visar att dessa övergångsberättelser har en feministisk potential men också återinstallerar det ”starka subjekt” som feministisk och queerteoretisk forskning sökt att destabilisera. I presentationen funderar vi på var otidsenliga fenomen som skam, sårbarhet och ickekontroll hör hemma i samtidens powerfeministiska diskurs.
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- Almqvist, Louise, 1993-
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Störande litteraturundervisning : litteratur, demokrati och värdegrundsarbete
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to develop a pedagogical approach to the teaching of literature in relation to value-based work, specifically regarding questions of sexuality and gender. The starting point for this approach is the pedagogue Gert Biesta’s vision of democracy as something that needs to be exercised within education, rather than a set of values that should simply be transmitted to the students. He also stresses the teacher’s role to actively interrupt the students’ predispositions for the education to be unpredictable, risky, and truly democratic. I combine this approach to teaching with queer theoretical, especially queer temporal, perspectives on sexuality, gender, and literature for ways to disrupt various interpretations of fiction. I also use Rita Felskis theories on literary engagement to interrupt and disrupt previous readings. In the analysis this approach is used to analyze readings of six books – three novels and three picture books: Moominpappa at Sea (1965) by Tove Jansson, Mamman och havet (2012) by Sara Stridsberg and Anna-Clara Tidholm, Darling River (2010) by Sara Stridsberg, Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies (1990) by Pija Lindenbaum, Popular Music from Vittula (2000) by Mikael Niemi, and Kivi & Monsterhund (2012) by Jesper Lundqvist and Bettina Johansson. I study various previous readings of the texts, such as reviews, research, student essays and comments on online forums. This gives an idea of how the text have been read before, and how they are likely to engage the intended readers of this dissertation – interpretations which I disrupt using queer theoretical perspectives. The final chapter problematizes and further develops the thesis’ theoretical framework and discusses its implication for the teaching of literature, as well as for educational philosophy in general, regarding democracy, politics, and ethics.
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- Jönsson, Maria, 1975-
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Hemmet som pojkland : Relationellt subjektsblivande i Kerstin Thorvalls mellanåldersromaner
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - Lund : Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; :3-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores novels from the 60’s and 70’s, targeted primarily towards children in the so-called intermediate age (age 9–12), by Swedish author Kerstin Thorvall. Thorvall was both a part of, and a forerunner to, the rejuvenation of children’s literature that took place in the 1960’s in Sweden – a time when books written for young boys and girls became known as ”youth literature”. This article argues that one of Thorvall’s contributions to this rejuvenation concerned her portrayal of boys and their relation to the mother, the family and the home. Boys have traditionally been depicted in outdoor environments associated with adventure: for instance, the woods, the water or in city neighbourhoods. Magnus Öhrn has classified such locations as ”boyhood territory”. Thorvall effectively re-situated this territory indoors – in the apartment or in the house. In Thorvall’s books, the boy’s subjectivity is shaped in relation to his mother and other intimate relations within the home. Whereas the individuation process for boys traditionally entails dissociation from the mother, in Thorvalls novels, the boy’s identity formation is relational, dependent and intertwined with relations within the home. Utilising the Bakhtinian chronotope as an analytical tool, the article explores how the plot constructs this identity formation both spatially and emotionally. Thorvall makes use of the home in a very concrete manner – through the boy’s movements between kitchen, hall and bedroom. The article argues that by placing boys in what has traditionally been regarded as “girlhood territory” Thorvall effectively revises the “boy book” genre. Instead of introducing girl characters into the adventures of the boy book, she exposes boy characters to the realism of traditionally “female” domestic settings.
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- Jarlsdotter Wikström, Jenny, 1985-
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Materiella vändningar : läsningar av Parland, Lispector, Berg och Byggmästar
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the dissertation is to examine the analytical potential of the ”material turn” within the field of literary studies. In particular, it explores how theoretical perspectives associated with the material turn may shed light on the work of four writers: Henry Parland (Finland, 1908–1930), Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1920–1977), Aase Berg (Sweden, b. 1967), and Eva-Stina Byggmästar (Finland, b. 1967). As is demonstrated, however, these works of fiction and poetry also pose a challenge to the theories of the material turn. Recognizing this tension, fiction, theory, and poetry are engaged on an equal footing in an investigation of subjectivity, matter, nature, and their possible conceptualization. The study begins with an overview of the theoretical research field, discussing five influential research anthologies of the material turn published between 2008 and 2015. The introductory chapter also reviews current research on the material turn in a Swedish context, concluding with a discussion of reading as an affirmative philosophical practice. The first part of the dissertation then examines Parland’s novel Sönder (1930) in relation to object-oriented ontology and feminist readings of the novel. Part two takes Lispector’s Água viva (1973) as its object, discussing it in connection to critical plant studies and the way plants present themselves in texts. Part three uses the frameworks of material feminism to discuss themes and motifs in Berg’s lyrical motherhood trilogy (2002–2007). Part four highlights cuteness, detail-centered aesthetics, nomadism, the pastoral trope, and the forest as a place of queer resistance in five poetic works (2006–2014) by Byggmästar. In different ways, the four case studies all center on issues of how the intricate relation between humans and nonhumans can be explored and expressed in writing, and what implications artistic exploration may have on an ethical and political level. As the dissertation concludes, the material turn reassesses many of the fundamental philosophical categories (i.e. subject and object, nature and culture, human and nonhuman). The major theorists of the field – Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth Grosz, and Timothy Morton – all stress the need to destabilize given concepts of nature and culture, establishing matter, materiality, and the environment as agents beyond human control. This standpoint, however, has problematic consequences for literary studies, given that literary scholars work with aesthetic representations created by humans. If, as many of the above-mentioned theorists assert, nature has its own powers, can it then be said to write fiction or poetry? If we answer the question affirmatively, how does this nature-writing-itself into fiction happen? These complications often lead to analytic aporias, but as the dissertation argues, such aporetic readings are not discouraging per se. On the contrary, the aporias or failures produced by the four case studies highlight the need for even more careful readings of literary as well as theoretical texts, and provide the grounds for a discussion on the ethical dimensions of reading fiction.
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