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The Nordic countries are often imagined by the outside world to be a haven of sexual equality and exemplary gender relations. This book presents a more nuanced picture to the English-speaking world, interrogating the constructions, negotiations and transformations of gender and power in a diversity of texts and textual practices. GENDER theory informs all sixteen essays in this volume, and a productive and provocative juxtaposition of boundaries is in evidence throughout. POWER and its distribution in society are analysed both as a problem central to the construction of the nation-state, and as a dynamic underlying cultural texts. TEXT is understood in this volume in a wide sense, encompassing painting, handicrafts, film, photography and installations, as well as poetry, the novel, and drama. The texts explored by the contributors belong to the Danish, Finnish, Finland-Swedish, Norwegian, Sami, and Swedish traditions.
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Helena Forsas-Scott is Senior Lecturer in Swedish and Co-ordinator of Gender Studies at University College London. She has written extensively on Swedish women's writing, particularly that of Elin Wagner, Kerstin Ekman and Selma Lagerlof. Her other publications include Swedish Women's Writing 1850-1995, and previous edited works include Textual Liberation: European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century and Elin Wagner's novel Pennskaftet.
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- PublisherNorvik Pr
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1870041607
- ISBN 13 9781870041607
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages292
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: A gender perspective on nation-building as social practice / Stephen J. Walton -- Women's agency and the changing distribution of power in Scandinavian society / Mona Lena Krook -- Towards a feminist genealogy of modernism: the narcissistic turn in Lou Andreas-Salome and Edith Sodergran / Ebba Witt-Brattstrom -- (M)other visions: strategies of resistance in representations of motherhood by Ellen Key and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt / Dorothy Berinstein-Kelly -- Writing the city: women novelists, gendered spatialities and authoritative voice in early twentieth-centrury Stockholm / Anna Westerstahl Stenport -- How Knut Hamsun imagined Juliane and her speech: Hamsun's play Livet ivold (in the grip of life, 1910) / Monika Zagar -- Women readers, food and the consumption of text: Karin Boye's Kris and Monika Fagerholm's Diva / Amanda Doxtater -- Gender and the historical novel / Susan Brantly -- Narration as transformative power: the fiction of Kerstin Ekman / Rochelle Wright -- Sami handicraft and plublic display / Zoe-hateehc D. Scheffy -- Gender, power, poetry: the example of Eldrid Lunden / Unni Langas -- To take possession of a poet: Gunvor Hofmo and her biographer / Sissel Furuseth -- Deceptive femininity: Mai Zetterling and the Swedish art cinema institution / Mariah Larsson -- A camera as close as Ingmar's: sexuality and direction in the work of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann / Linda Haverty Rugg -- 'En usynlig krop': transgressing the boundaries of the body in Vibeke Gronfeldt's Mulighedernes land and I dag / Catherine Claire Thomson -- Entropic desires: themes of biological decay in Scandinavian art and literatture / Thomas Fechner-Smarsly. Seller Inventory # 8jbew864
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