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”Det anstår mig inte att göra mig mindre än jag är” - skönhetsidealet och den kvinnliga grotesken i textanalyser av Kerstin Ekmans Grand Final i skojarbranschen, Muriel Barberys Igelkottens elegans och Majgull Axelssons Moderspassion
(2013-10-11)
The purpose of this paper is to make a feminist textual analysis of three female protagonists in
contemporary novels in order to demonstrate representations of ”skeva” female bodies, deviant
from beauty-, slender and age ...
A Literary Analysis of Stephenie Meyer’s "Breaking Dawn" from a Gender Perspective: Female Emancipation or False Liberation?
(2011-06-28)
This essay takes as its starting point John Stephens’ schema of masculine and feminine traits.
The main character in Breaking Dawn, Bella and Edward, will be analysed according to
Stephens’ description of masculine and ...
Heteronormativity in EFL textbooks
(2015-04-09)
Gender is a binary construction reinforced by language, and reinforcing heterosexuality. When learning a foreign language, one has the ability to reconstruct one’s norms and therefore acquire strategies for avoiding ...
Subversiv eller normativ? En komparativ analys mellan två bokserier för barn i åldrarna 9–12
(2019-08-14)
This paper examines how gender and sexuality is performed in Ingelin Angerborn’s book series called ‘Mebel-trilogy’ compared to Jesper Lundqvist’s so called ‘Ghost school-series’ [Spökskolan-serien]. Both book series are ...
Constructing Rural Identities – A Diverse Narrative
(2016-07-05)
So far, rural people and communities have not received much consideration within the field of gender studies while urban individuals and their lifestyles have been normalised. I argue that the rural space inhabits a huge ...
Reformulating Sexuality and the renunciation of Gender
(2017-05-05)
My main focus in this essay is to pinpoint current discourses within a section of the queer community regarding the use of language and terminology when describing gender, identity, sexuality and desire. In particular I ...