Search for dissertations about: "subjektivitet"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the word subjektivitet.
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1. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations
Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE
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2. Getting Intimate : A Feminist Analysis of Old Age, Masculinity and Sexuality
Abstract : This thesis focuses on the intersections of masculinity, old age and sexuality from the perspectives of old men themselves, how they understand and experience sex and sexuality in later life. The study uses qualitative in-depth interviews and body diaries, an exploratory method that asked men write about their bodies in everyday life. READ MORE
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3. (Un)bearable freedom : Exploring the becoming of the artist in education, work and family life
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to explore and understand three important social contexts for the becoming of an artistic subjectivity: education, work and family life. The empirical data consist of interview material with alumni from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, staff of the institute, and a survey material from the Swedish National Artists Organization (KRO/KIF). READ MORE
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4. Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past
Abstract : This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. READ MORE
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5. Shaped for beauty : Vocational and gendered subjectivities in private education for the beauty industry
Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to answer the question: How are vocational, gendered subjectivities produced in vocational education for the beauty industry? Drawing on Foucault and poststructural feminist theory, this question is answered in four papers, in which the material consists of beauty-school recruitment and marketing material, interviews with skin and spa therapy students and observations of practical skin and spa therapy training. These are educational arrangements that are closely bound to the economic sector of the beauty industry, and they have remained remarkably unexplored. READ MORE