Search for dissertations about: "Consciousness-raising"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word Consciousness-raising.

2. 1. Imagining Safe Space : The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography

   Author : Ingrid Ryberg; Anu Koivunen; Fanny Ambjörnsson; Patricia White; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pornography; Queer; feminist and lesbian activism; Interpretive community; Embodied spectatorship; Fantasy; Film production; distribution and reception; Intimate public; Counter public; Consciousness-raising; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : There is a current wave of interest in pornography as a vehicle for queer, feminist and lesbian activism. Examples include Dirty Diaries: Twelve Shorts of Feminist Porn (Engberg, Sweden, 2009), the Pornfilmfestival Berlin (2006-) and the members-only Club LASH in Stockholm (1995-). READ MORE

4. 2. Perplexities of the personal and the political : how women's liberation became women's human rights

   Author : Valgerdur Palmadottir; Sara Edenheim; Lena Eskilsson; Clare Hemmings; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Feminist theory; Women’s liberation; Human rights; Women’s rights; People’s tribunals; Consciousness raising; the personal is political; International feminist activism; Feminism; politisk teori; personligt och politiskt; privat och offentligt; politiska subjekt; mänskliga rättigheter; medvetandehöjande; folkliga tribunaler; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus is primarily on the uses of personal stories in activism at the intersections of politics and legal discourse. READ MORE