Search for dissertations about: "Lesbian and Queer"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Lesbian and Queer.
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1. Sinners and citizens : bestiality and homosexuality in Sweden 1880-1950
Abstract : This study is based on an analysis of more than 2,300 court cases concerning acts of bestiality and same-sex sexuality in rural and urban Sweden 1880-1950. Other written sources are forensic psychi-atric statements, mental hospital records, material from the Swedish Sex Reform movement, news-papers and scientific journals, and minutes of the Swedish Parliament and its subcommittees. READ MORE
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2. Imagining Safe Space : The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography
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
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3. "Frightened by a Word" : Shirley Jackson and Lesbian Gothic
Abstract : This study examines representations and configurations of lesbianism in literary narrative and, in particular, three novels by American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). As recent scholarly work has demonstrated, representations of sexuality between women in literature tend toward the ghostly, the Gothic. READ MORE
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4. Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking in Lesbian and Queer Relationships : Challenging Recognition
Abstract : The topic of intimate partner violence (IPV) in lesbian and queer relationships continues to be under-researched in Sweden. This lack of knowledge and recognition can have severe consequences for the help-seeking of those who are not recognized as victims of IPV. READ MORE
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5. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts
Abstract : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. READ MORE