<p>Two hundred years later it still affects us</p>

<p>I denna uppsats undersöker jag hur det är att arbeta som hbt-aktivist i Litauen, och redogör för hur man som aktivist förbereder sig inför landets första Prideparad: Baltic Pride. Uppsatsens syfte är att ur ett queerteoretiskt perspektiv undersöka hur litauiska hbt-aktivister arbetar för att synliggöras som grupp.</p><p>Jag undersöker på vilka sätt litauiska hbt-aktivister förhåller sig till, och verkar inom, heteronormativa praktiker i sitt dagliga arbete och i förberedelserna av Baltic Pride. Mitt material består av sex semi-strukturerade intervjuer med litauiska hbt-aktivister.</p><p>Resultatet visar att det litauiska samhällets i mångt och mycket negativa inställning till hbt-personer påverkar hur aktivisterna väljer att presentera sig själva som grupp. I presentationen av sig själva vill aktivisterna bryta ner stereotypa bilder av homosexualitet genom att iscensätta ett genusbeteende som associeras till normalitet. Inom ramen för Baltic Pride innebär detta en slags Anti-Pride, där iscensättningen av hbt-identiteten som en del av normen uppfattas som en effektivare strategi för att utmana heteronormen snarare än att använda lekar med könsroller, stereotyper eller parodier av normativa genusbeteenden.</p>

I denna uppsats undersöker jag hur det är att arbeta som hbt-aktivist i Litauen, och redogör för hur man som aktivist förbereder sig inför landets första Prideparad: Baltic Pride. Uppsatsens syfte är att ur ett queerteoretiskt perspektiv undersöka hur litauiska hbt-aktivister arbetar för att synliggöras som grupp. Jag undersöker på vilka sätt litauiska hbt-aktivister förhåller sig till, och verkar inom, heteronormativa praktiker i sitt dagliga arbete och i förberedelserna av Baltic Pride. Mitt material består av sex semi-strukturerade intervjuer med litauiska hbt-aktivister. Resultatet visar att det litauiska samhällets i mångt och mycket negativa inställning till hbt-personer påverkar hur aktivisterna väljer att presentera sig själva som grupp. I presentationen av sig själva vill aktivisterna bryta ner stereotypa bilder av homosexualitet genom att iscensätta ett genusbeteende som associeras till normalitet. Inom ramen för Baltic Pride innebär detta en slags Anti-Pride, där iscensättningen av hbt-identiteten som en del av normen uppfattas som en effektivare strategi för att utmana heteronormen snarare än att använda lekar med könsroller, stereotyper eller parodier av normativa genusbeteenden.

Two hundred years later it still affects us

The aim of this essay is to investigate Face Theory, from a gender perspective, in the 19th century’s novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with the help of Speech Act Theory including direct Speech and indirect Speech. The special focuses of this investigation are if Elizabeth has a stereotypical use of FTAs strategies for different genders.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2009. / Thesis directed by David Solomon for the Department of Philosophy. "December 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 274-279).

One of the major concerns of counselling psychology is to foster development rather than to simply remediate problems. One of the emotions through which proactive development might be facilitated is pride. Pride has potential connections to achievement motivation, care and attention toward work, task persistence, self-competence, esteem, and general productive well-being within a social context. The purpose of this study was to describe children's conceptions of pride in the anticipation that knowing about these conceptions would help indicate ways for counsellors to intervene. Using phenomenography, a descriptive research methodology that emphasizes conceptions of things experienced, child participants in Grades 2, 4, and 7 were interviewed to determine their conceptions of pride. The children were invited to talk about pride, mainly by telling stories of experiences with pride. The resulting narratives were analyzed to sift out all qualitatively distinct categories of meaning for pride, mapping the general domain of the emotion. Eight distinct conceptions emerged, including three active or doing conceptions (achieving, acting ethically, and acting independently) and five having conceptions (possessing, having a desired attribute or ability, belonging, having special status, and pride by association). All conceptions were represented in all three grades sampled, with no outstanding age- or gender-related differences. Research results contribute to our knowledge of how children experience and comprehend pride, and point toward educational and psychological implications for those who parent, educate, or counsel children.

A theoretical model of eating disorders called the shame and pride model has suggested that pride is a key psychological mechanism underpinning restrictive eating disorders and that it is also important in the maintenance of such conditions. Despite being included in this model, pride has been little investigated in the eating disorders field, especially when compared to shame, which has received extensive theoretical and empirical attention. Therefore, the overall aim of this PhD thesis was to investigate the role of pride related to eating disorders and its relation to motivation to change in clinical and non-clinical samples. Firstly, a systematic mixed studies review was conducted to examine the empirical evidence concerning pride and eating disorders. This review showed that this is an under-researched area (only 10 studies were identified). However, it provided initial evidence highlighting that low levels of pride in physical appearance precipitated the onset of eating disorder behaviours, such as food restriction, binge eating, and purging. It also suggested that over time, high levels of pride experienced through the ability to control food/calorie intake and weight loss, appeared to maintain eating disorders. Secondly, three empirical studies were conducted; a qualitative study, followed by two quantitative studies. The grounded theory qualitative study aimed to understand the meaning of pride in eating disorders from the perspective of women with anorexia nervosa. The second study aimed to develop and validate a measure to assess the component structure of pride in eating pathology. The third study investigated, over a period of 12 months: i. whether pride in eating pathology acted as a mediator between anorexia nervosa symptoms and the precontemplation stage of change (i.e. no motivation to change), and ii. whether pride in healthy weight and healthy eating interacted with anorexia nervosa symptoms to predict the action stage of change (i.e. actively engaging to change eating disorder behaviours). Both qualitative and exploratory component analysis indicated that pride in eating pathology is a multidimensional self-conscious emotion that is comprised of unhealthy and healthy aspects. In addition, findings from the qualitative study and the longitudinal mediational study demonstrated that pride in eating pathology evolves over time and predicted people’s unwillingness to change eating disorder behaviours after a year. Finally, results from the longitudinal moderational analysis revealed that pride in healthy weight and healthy eating did not act as a moderator between anorexia symptoms and being in the action stage to change eating disorder behaviours at 12 months. However, the qualitative study revealed that pride related to healthy eating behaviours promotes recovery in a clinical sample. Results from this PhD thesis provide empirical evidence to further develop the shame and pride model postulated by Goss and Gilbert (2002) and highlight the role of pride as a precipitating and maintaining factor of eating disorder behaviours. In addition, it was found that pride in eating disorders influences motivation to change. Clinical implications of the findings from these empirical studies are discussed throughout the PhD thesis, along with directions for future research.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Anthropology) / This dissertation is an ethnography of the figure of the moffie as a performance of same sex desire amongst gender non-conforming men, as it is celebrated in the 'coloured' ('coloured' is a constructed racial category, similar to 'white' and 'black' designated onto South Africans during the system of legislated racial segregation) townships of Cape Town. In this dissertation I demonstrate that the moffie is central to the lives of gender non-conforming men living in the 'coloured' townships of Cape Town. Through historical and contemporary ethnography, I show how moffie life is a representation of same sex desire amongst men that is highly visible. I reveal how moffie life is socially sanctioned through feminine self-styling, embodied through that of the gay hairdresser, annual gay beauty pageant competitions and Gay Pride events.

In his Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume offers an elaborate account of the origins of property and suggests modesty has a similar origin. In this paper, I draw on Hume’s discussions of modesty and property to extract his account of the origin of modesty. Modesty and property are ultimately regulated by pride and selfishness according to Hume. I argue that these choices of passions, as the grounds of their related virtues, express an intentionally irreligious and anti-Christian approach. Furthermore, I argue that reading Hume in the context of irreligion not only helps understand his own theory, but also explains his different relationships to Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. I conclude that readers of Hume must consider his irreligious motives alongside his skeptical and naturalistic methods if they are to understand him in a historically accurate way, and make sense of how he approaches his project in the Treatise.