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In this thesis, I aim to make visible and discuss the norms that can be found in some of the Sweden Democrats’ central documents pertaining to a definition of their nation-building. I have used critical discourse analysis to discuss these documents, that is Sweden Democrats’ party program, and a speech held by the leader of the party, Jimmie Åkesson. In this material, I identified three themes: essential differences; family, equality and gender; and the People’s home. The People’s home is a subcategory to essential differences and family, equality and gender. I analysed these themes by using a norm critical perspective. The results of my study are, among others, that the norms in the central documents create a normative Swedish “we” that excludes the “other”. The “other” is sometimes the “cultural other” and sometimes the “sexual other”. The Sweden democrats paints a picture of the “cultural other” as unable to adapt in to the Swedish normative “we”.

The purpose with this paper is to use an older belletristic litterature, like in this case Ett sällsamt öde by Frida Stéenhoff and do a queer theoretical analysis of the short story and then discuss the didactical implications the short story and my reading of the short story can have in the Swedish school and the work to active counteract discrimination. I have designed three questions who can answer my purpose with this paper. The following questions are: - How do Mikael and Ethel challenge the heterosexual standard? - How can the important breakfronts in the short story be comprehended and explained by the queer theory? - What in my reading of the short story can be actualized as relevant in the didactic field? The method I have used to answer these questions is a queer theoretical close reading of the short story. I have been able to use this method with the help of the queer theoretical perspective as my thesis and concepts such as Butler’s perfomativity and Foucault’s categorizing and exlusion are important concepts in my analysis and result. The conclusion I have been able to reach is that the short story Ett sällsamt öde actually is a story that can be used in the Swedish school and the work to actively counteract discrimination. With the queer theoretical perspective as my basis I have been able to find four different aspects that I consider important for the story itself but also to discuss with the students in school. These four aspects are Mikael Ignace’s identity, his suicide and Ethel’s psychological state and her way back to the nursing home as she herself once upon a time was admitted to. These four aspects challenge the heterosexual state and can from a queer perspective interpreted as Frida Stéenhoff’s figurative metaphors for a more comprehending society. With these aspects to my help I want to use queer pedagogy with my students to show them that norms, categorizing and similar aspects are constructions built by human beings and therefore are able to be critically examined and that they are changeable.

My intention with this paper is to see if I can do a literature analysis by combining a queer perspective analysis with a classic literary-scientific analysis to get a wider perspective on three Swedish picture books. The picture books has a non-heteronomous family constellation since the main characters of the books are a  pair of homosexual giraffes. The three books are written by the same author and illustrated by the same illustrator. The authors name is Anette Skålberg and the illustrators name is Katarina Dahlquist. The name of the books are Jösta och Johan (2010), Junior börjar förskolan (2010) and Junior vill ha syskon! (2011). The books are published by Sagolikt förlag. One of my main purposes is to analyze the relation between the text and the pictures to see if they are symmetric or if they complete each other. The result shows that almost all of the pictures are symmetrical to the text which means they don't add anything to the story more than the esthetic aspect. I also read the books with a queer perspective and the results shows that the books are inviting to analyze from that perspective since the main characters are gay. I also discovered that the books are more interesting from a gender perspective than I thought since the gender of some of the characters is not explicit.

Bakgrund: Jämlik vård och att minska skillnader i hälsa är centrala mål för hälso- och sjukvården. Utifrån det anses sjuksköterskan utgöra en viktig roll genom att förbättra vården såväl som att möta patienter med respekt och med hänsyn till människors olikheter. Forskning visar att HBTQ-personer utsätts för diskriminering och marginalisering i samhället i stort men också inom vården vilket bidrar till sämre psykisk och fysik hälsa för dessa grupper. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva sjuksköterskors och HBTQ-personers erfarenheter från att mötas i vården. Metod: En induktiv kvalitativ litteraturstudie med queerperspektiv som teoretisk referensram genomfördes. Urvalet bestod av vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ ansats och som beskriver möten mellan sjuksköterskor och HBTQ-personer i vården. Datainsamlingen utfördes genom sökningar i två databaser, CINAHL och MEDLINE och resulterade i nio artiklar som analyserades med temaanalys. Resultat: Erfarenheter från möten mellan sjuksköterskor och HBTQ-personer i vården beskrivs i tre teman: Sjuksköterskans kompetens, Humanitet i mötet och Tillgänglighet med det övergripande temat Stigmatisering relaterat till heteronormen. Slutsatser: Sjuksköterskor behöver ett normkritiskt förhållningssätt för att möta HBTQ-personer med respekt och utan diskriminering. Sjuksköterskans kompetens och attityd hänger samman med vårdens tillgänglighet för HBTQ-personer som också har betydelse för en mer jämlik hälsa. Heteronormen har en överordnad påverkan på alla de delar som har betydelse för HBTQ-personers hälsa och tillgång till god vård. Det behövs mer tvärvetenskaplig forskning inom ämnet för att skapa förändring mot en mer jämlik hälsa i samhället. / Background: Equal care and reducing differences in health are central goals for health care. Based on this, the nurse is considered to play an important role by improving care as well as meeting patients with respect and with regard to people's differences. Research shows that LGBTQ people are exposed to discrimination and marginalization in society at large but also in healthcare which contributes to poorer mental and physical health for these groups. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe nurses' and LGBTQ person's experiences from meeting in care. Method: Inductive qualitative literature study with a queer perspective as a theoretical frame was performed. The selection consisted of scientific articles with a qualitative approach and which describe meetings between nurses and LGBTQ persons in care. The data collection was performed through searches in two databases, CINAHL and MEDLINE and resulted in nine articles that were analysed with thematic analysis. Results: Experiences from meetings between nurses and LGBTQ persons in care are described in three themes: The nurse's competence, Humanity in the meeting and Accessibility with the overall theme Stigmatization related to heteronormativity. Conclusions: Nurses need a norm-critical approach to meet LGBTQ persons with respect and without discrimination. The nurse's competence and attitude is connected with the care's accessibility for LGBTQ persons, which is also important for a more equal health. The heteronormativity has an overall impact on all the parts that are important for LGBTQ person's health and access to good care. More interdisciplinary research in the subject is needed to create change towards a more equal health in society.

Denna uppsats beskriver HBTQ+-personers gestaltning i barnlitteratur. Studien utgörs av karaktärs- och bildanalyser på sex olika HBTQ+-karaktärer från fyra olika barnböcker. Resultatet av denna uppsats visar att de flesta HBTQ+-personer i barnlitteratur framställs utifrån normer som vi förmedlar till barn, vilket kan ge positiva och negativa effekter på barns tankar om heteronormen.