Search for dissertations about: "feminist novel"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words feminist novel.

  1. 1. Women-to-women diplomacy : the pursuit of feminist peace in Georgia and Myanmar

    Author : Magda Cardenas; Elisabeth Olivius; Anna Jarstad; Marjaana Jauhola; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women’s activism; gender equality; feminist peace; agency; bottom-up peacebuilding; Georgia; Myanmar; women-to-women diplomacy; Kvinnors aktivism; jämställdhet; feministisk fred; fredsbyggande på gräsrotsnivå; Georgia; Myanmar; kvinnor-till-kvinnor diplomati; freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research;

    Abstract : Why and how do women engage in peacebuilding efforts across conflict divides? This dissertation coins a novel concept, women-to-women diplomacy – or W2WD – to explore women’s peace activism in Georgia and Myanmar. W2WD consists of three components: 1) the promotion of women’s agency as a key aspect of mobilisation and peacebuilding practices; 2) women’s own experiences of conflict as a basis for bridging divides; and 3) women’s visions of gender equality as a fundamental part of peace. READ MORE

  2. 2. “Only Leave Them to Themselves” : Frances Brooke’s Fictional Worlds of Emancipatory Sensibility

    Author : Michaela Vance; Frida Beckman; Stefano Fogelberg Rota; Ian Haywood; Bo Ekelund; Paula Backscheider; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Frances Brooke; education; inborn virtue; sensibility; Christianity; Rousseau; Locke; fictional worlds; modal constraints; opera; tragedy; novel; periodical; eighteenth century; English; engelska;

    Abstract : In conversation but frequently at odds with contemporary voices on education, British eighteenth-century writer Frances Brooke (1724-1789) argued for a thoroughly revised approach to moral education that relied on the emancipatory potential of inborn sensibility. This thesis considers Brooke’s original texts, which range from periodical writing, novels, tragedies, operas, and prefaces, in the light of education, sensibility, and form, with the intention of expanding our understanding of Brooke’s contribution to eighteenth-century proto-feminist debates. READ MORE

  3. 3. Wrestling with Textual Violence : A Case Study of the Jephthah Narrative in Antiquity and Modernity with Special Regard to Gender

    Author : Mikael Sjöberg; Lars Hartman; Hanna Stenström; David Miller Gunn; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Humanities and religion; feminism; feminist exegesis; feminist biblical interpretation; gender; classic; canon; ethics of interpretation; narratology; Jephthah; Judges; Pseudo-Philo; Josephus; Handel; Grant Watson; Amos Oz; HUMANIORA OCH RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; gamla testamentets exegetik; Old Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : How may readers handle the encounter with violence in a “classical text”? The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the debate on the ethics of biblical interpretation with special regard to feminism. To fulfil that aim, a case study of the narrative of Jephthah is made and its implications are discussed at a more general level. READ MORE

  4. 4. Tjerita and Novel. Literary Discourse in Post New Order Indonesia

    Author : Stefan Danerek; Kinesiska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Chinese; Kinesiska och språk från Syd- och Sydostasien; social change; Literary development; gender; Indonesia; discourse analysis; short story; Ayu Utami; Languages and Literature studies specific languages ; Languages of South and South-East Asia; Språk- och litteraturvetenskap särskilda språk ; Social changes; theory of social work; Sociala förändringar; teorier om socialt arbete;

    Abstract : The work examines developments in the novel and the short story of writers who grew up during the New Order era (1966-1998) in the period of reform post 1998. It is assumed and subsequently affirmed that the genres are developing, modern genres in dialogue with the past and present. The work's main use of theory is that of M. M. READ MORE

  5. 5. The Old World Journey : National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973

    Author : Eva Zetterberg Pettersson; Elisabeth Herion-Sarafidis; Rolf Lundén; Fredrik Christian Brögger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Erica Jong; William Styron; Mary McCarthy; John A. Williams; Birds of America; Fear of Flying; Set This House on Fire; The Man Who Cried I Am; international novel; journey narrative; European journey; nationalism; national identity; Old World; Europe ; America ; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket;

    Abstract : A commonly held assumption among literary critics is that the motif of the European journey is exhausted in American literature in the post-World-War-II period. Challenging this view, the present study claims that the Old World journey narrative lives on, but in new guises, and that it continues to be a forum for the discussion of American national identity. READ MORE