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IMAGINED REBELLION: WHAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE WINTER'S TALE
2014
International audience; Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale features a pattern of violent rebellion that only just fails to happen. Such moments of near-rebellion, best interpreted through the play's master trope of the moving statue, constitute an exploration of the causes of political rebellion and how best to avert it. Thanks to the close integration of its romance aesthetics and political realism, The Winter's Tale can be read as a "Mirror for Kings".
The (care) robot in science fiction: A monster or a tool for the future?
2016
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Michael Field's Sapphism : an Ontology of the Feminine in "Long Ago" (1889)
2018
This article examines the valuable contribution that Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper made to the vast tradition of queer Sapphism in Long Ago (1889), their first volume of poetry published under the collaborative pseudonym of Michael Field. Taking as my starting point the well-established assumption among contemporary critics that this volume represents an original instance of lesbian writing, I seek to argue that Long Ago not only appropriates and celebrates the figure of Sappho as a lesbian archetype, it also proposes a subversive gender theory that conceptualises the feminine as the essential principle of vitalism, the masculine as the very representation of death, and homoe…
Mujeres con dependencia alcohólica: su participación en grupos de Alcohólicos Anónimos
2019
alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous, sexims, gender studies
The EU as a global actor Is the EU diffusing norms in third countries through NGOs?
2015
Master thesis Public Policy and Management- University of Agder, 2015 The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the role of the European Union as a global actor and as promoter of gender equality in third countries. The thesis consists of a case study of the relation between the EU and a Mexican NGO, where I am trying to determine its effect on the formulation of public policies protecting women’s rights. To analyze the case study I benefit from the role theory, normative power and interregionalism. The findings of the study suggest that the EU is employing instruments such as political dialogue together with the principle of conditionality in order to spread ideas, norms and values. Furthe…
Flerkulturelle kvinner i arbeidslivet
2015
Masteroppgave velferdsstudier- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 I denne masteroppgaven retter jeg søkelyset mot kvinner med ikke vestlig bakgrunn som har fullført introduksjonsprogrammet for minst 3-5 år siden. Masteroppgaven handler om flerkulturelle kvinner i arbeidslivet. Jeg tar opp temaer som har vist seg viktige for å forstå flerkulturelle kvinners situasjon på det norske arbeidsmarkedet. Hovedårsaken til at jeg har valgt å konsentrere meg om flerkulturelle kvinner er at det er disse som kommer dårligst ut på arbeidsmarkedsstatistikken. De er i mye større grad enn norske og nordiske kvinner arbeidsledige, og de er overrepresentert innenfor renhold og hotell- og restaurantvirksomhet. Min ho…
Sykefravær og arbeidsbelastning Kombinasjon av yrketsaktivitet og husholdet: kjønnsforskjeller og tidsbruk
2015
Masteroppgave velferdsfag- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Denne oppgaven omfatter en kvantitativ studie av sammenhengen mellom arbeidsbelastninger og sykefraværet. Anvendt data er Livsløp, Generasjon og Kjønn (LOGG)1. Det undersøkes for fire belastninger i jobben, hovedansvar for seks husholdarbeids oppgaver, og en kombinasjon av lønnet og ulønnet arbeid. Videre ses det på forskjellen mellom kvinner og menn, og tidsbruk i hjemmet. Oppgavens sentrale problemstilling er: Hvilken betydning har arbeidsbelastninger for sykefraværet? Dette har gitt grunnlag for å dele inn i fire hypoteser. Der jeg ser på betydningen av arbeidsbelastninger i jobben, begrenset til: stress, ubekvem arbeidstid, lite var…
Mainstreaming gender in the EU-accession process: the case of the Baltic Republics
2005
Since the early 1990s, the Baltic states have gone through processes of economic transition and liberalization. Although various reports give an overview of gendered impacts of these economic reforms, they fail to elaborate on the more complex relations between gender, citizenship, and social exclusion. This article explores these relations in more detail. The first decade of reforms in the Baltic states resulted in a lack of economic prospects, in particular for women from minority groups and women working in low-pay sectors. This made them increasingly vulnerable to trafficking for sexual purposes: migration to Western Europe was an attractive alternative for those without work, whether …
Moral transgression, disease and holistic health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth and early twenttieth-century Malawi
2009
This article examines ideas of morality and health, and connections between moral transgression and disease in both Scottish missionary and Central African thought in the context of the Livingstonia Mission of the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland in Malawi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.2 By concentrating on debates, conflicts and co-operation between missionaries and Africans over the key issues of beer drinking and sexual morality, this article explores the emergence of a new ‘moral hygiene’ among African Christian communities in Northern Malawi.<br><br>Este artículo analiza las ideas sobre moralidad y salud, así como las relaciones entre transgre…
Asthma - The Construction of the Masculine Body
1994
This article focuses on understanding the social construction of male identity in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s. Sporting experiences of the author are used as material for memory-work (Erinnerungsarbeit), the key experience here being illness (Asthma). By writing through it, the author thematizes the healthy, sporting, and disciplined body inscribed in hegemonic masculinity.