<p>Cover Story is a project, which students at Lillholms - and Ekholms School worked in during spring and fall of 2009. Several school subjects were integrated in project; social studies, art and Swedish, to empower the students to create, implement and design a magazine. The purpose of the project was to give the students the opportunity to fantasize about the future and their dreams by creating their very own <em>Cover Story</em>. During the project I realized that the student’s selection of magazine genre had a direct relation to the <em>gender</em> of the students themselves. The boys mostly chose motor and car sports magazines as their Cover Story. The girls on the other hand preferred to choose dog and fashion magazines.</p><p>Today there are an endless number of magazines in different interests, genres and professions. For instance, the magazine called <em>Frida,</em> which is directed to young girls, writes about various music groups, trends and gossip. The magazine called <em>Autobilsport,</em> which is mostly directed to men, covers news about upcoming cars and the latest audio equipment. In other words, there is a notion of masculinity and femininity even in the selection of magazines.</p><p>My natural interest of this behaviour drove me to further study the subject and to get closure to this already started work. This study is written in order to analyze students' and teachers' thoughts about the gender aspect in relation to the project. The method used to collect data and information has been through interviews, questionnaire surveys and field observations. All materials have been developed in order to give deeper answers to the questions sought. The answers that emerged have then been analyzed in relation to selected theories.</p><p>Whether the gender has been a significant factor in the students' choice of a Cover Story is difficult to answer. During the investigation it was discovered that the students themselves led their choice not only according to their interests and dreams, but also according to the selection of magazines that were at hand. The teachers argued that ideas are everywhere in society and not only in newspapers. However, the teachers have not been allowed to challenge or encourage students' choice of Cover Story.</p> / <p>Cover Story är ett projekt, som elever på Lillholms – och Ekholmsskolan arbetade med, under våren och hösten 2009. I projektet integrerades olika skolämnen som: samhällskunskap, bild och svenska, för att eleverna skulle kunna skapa, göra och designa en egen tidskrift. Projektets syfte var att eleverna skulle få fantisera över framtiden och sina drömmar genom att skapa en alldeles egen <em>Cover Story. </em>Under projektets gång upplevde jag att <em>genus</em> var en tydlig förekommande företeelse, i samband med elevernas val av tidskriftsgenre. Pojkarna valde till mestadels motor- och bilsporttidningar som deras Cover Story. Flickorna däremot valde gärna hund- och modemagasin.</p><p>Idag finns oändligt många tidskrifter inom olika intressen, genre och yrkeskategorier som till exempel <em>Frida,</em> som skriver om olika musikgrupper, trender, skvaller och riktas till unga tjejer. Ett annat exempel är <em>Autobilsport</em>,<em> </em>som skriver om kommande bilar, senaste ljudutrustning och riktas oftast till män. Med andra ord finns en föreställning om manligt och kvinnligt även i valet av tidskrifter.</p><p>Att forska vidare föll mig ganska naturligt, för att få möjlighet att avsluta ett påbörjat arbete. Denna studie är skriven i syfte att analysera elevers och lärares tankar kring genusaspekten i relation till projektet. Metoden som använts för att samla data och information, har varit intervjuer, enkätundersökning och fältobservationer. Allt material har tagits fram i syfte att ge djupare svar på de frågor som ställts. De svar som framkommit har sedan analyserats i förhållande till utvalda teorier.</p><p>Huruvida genus styrt elevernas val av Cover Story, är svårt att besvara. I samband med undersökningen har det framkommit att eleverna själva styrt sina val utifrån de tidningsurval som funnits till hands, men också utifrån sina intressen och drömmar. Lärarna menade dock att föreställningar finns överallt i samhället och inte bara i tidningar, dock har de inte fått ifrågasätta eller uppmuntra elevernas val av Cover Story.</p> / Cover Story

<p>C-paper Abstract</p><p>Title: Fluidity and Solidity in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping</p><p>Author: Linda Lindqvist</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to show that fluidity and solidity constitute a central tension on all levels in Housekeeping, and how this tension leads to a choice of either a fluid or a solid lifestyle and view of the world. I focus on fluidity and solidity in gender roles, in memories, in dreams, in nature, and in different perceptions of reality. By taking a closer look at Ruth’s first-person narration (seeing fluidity as not resisting deformation, while solidity resists deformation), we find that the characters in Housekeeping have fluid and solid traits, but that there is no reality that allows mixed manifestations of these. This results in repression of either fluidity or solidity, which creates tension and feelings of loss. Ruth chooses a fluid lifestyle, thus her memories and dreams become mixed with her present, and this also leads her to become a transient, outside gender roles and traditional small town society. Transience in this novel questions all distinctions conventionally made between dream and reality; male and female. In conclusion, this essay highlights how tension between fluidity and solidity is generated on all levels in Housekeeping, and how this leads to either fluid or solid lifestyles since the characters follow a cultural code that dictates a choice between them.</p>

The aim of this study was to find out how features that have been found to be typical of women’s language, such as hedges, tag questions and a high level of talkativeness etc., are represented in a popular TV series. Five cross-sex conversations from one episode of the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine were analyzed, and the results show that many of the features of interest, as for instance tag questions, minimal responses and indirect style, are unexpectedly used more frequently by men in this small investigation. In fact, the only feature that was used more frequently by the female main character was hedges. Several factors affect the results of the study, as for instance the fact that the conversations are fictional. The special characteristics of the speakers also affect the results, as well as the tone and the topic of the chosen conversations. Many of the features of interest were used to a very small extent, which is probably a result of the fact that the language in a sitcom is to be entertaining and rather quick, which leaves little or no room for the features studied.

The present study explored 12 womens experiences in five community-based improvisational movement sessions. The study was two-pronged in nature, attending to the experience of expressive movement and somatic awareness exercises as well as the experience of gathering together as women. Session activities were taken from movement and somatic practices such as Authentic Movement, the 5Rhythms®, YogaDance®, the Big Fat Ass Dance Class®, theatre-based exercises, contact improvisation and African Dance. The chosen methodology was hermeneutic phenomenology using a weekly sharing circle, post-session interviews, and journal entries as data. Although inquiring into both psychological and movement experiences, the study did not derive from a formal Dance/Movement Therapy perspective but instead, prioritized the womens own voices in order to elucidate the inherent experience and worth of expressive movement within a community framework. Three core constructs arose from my analysis: Conscious Embodiment, Conscious Play and Conscious Connection. The underlying role of relationality is highlighted in the final chapter. Findings contribute to a preventive and resiliency orientation as opposed to the more typical clinical and therapeutic research found in the field of Dance/Movement Therapy.

The present study explored 12 womens experiences in five community-based improvisational movement sessions. The study was two-pronged in nature, attending to the experience of expressive movement and somatic awareness exercises as well as the experience of gathering together as women. Session activities were taken from movement and somatic practices such as Authentic Movement, the 5Rhythms®, YogaDance®, the Big Fat Ass Dance Class®, theatre-based exercises, contact improvisation and African Dance. The chosen methodology was hermeneutic phenomenology using a weekly sharing circle, post-session interviews, and journal entries as data. Although inquiring into both psychological and movement experiences, the study did not derive from a formal Dance/Movement Therapy perspective but instead, prioritized the womens own voices in order to elucidate the inherent experience and worth of expressive movement within a community framework. Three core constructs arose from my analysis: Conscious Embodiment, Conscious Play and Conscious Connection. The underlying role of relationality is highlighted in the final chapter. Findings contribute to a preventive and resiliency orientation as opposed to the more typical clinical and therapeutic research found in the field of Dance/Movement Therapy.

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Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Audrey Niffenegger's two visual novels The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress all contain examples of manipulated paratext - paratexts being the devices involved in the presentation of the text such as titles, author names, font, introductions, illustrations, appendices, advertising, and interviews. The emphasis these authors place on these usually inconspicuous devices is an expression of the irrational themes contained within these texts. The irrational is an underlying theme of the Gothic genre and through examining the use of manipulated paratexts this thesis demonstrates how these texts make use of the irrational Gothic elements that are present within the postmodern. While Danielewski and Niffenegger both have these similar themes, the effects they create are extremely different. Niffenegger creates écriture feminine, or feminine writing as described by Hélène Cixous, by prioritising illustrations that feature marginalised bodily expression in order to convey the narrative rather than text. Danielewski, on the other hand, produces a text that is a pure pastiche of Gothic and postmodern devices in order to emulate the postmodern media in its creation of hyperreality and to reproduce the sensation of a media that possesses and changes its consumers. House of Leaves is the instigator for a number of similar texts that have been published since the turn of the millennium which will be considered an emerging literary movement.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Title on DVD: Feminine beauty aesthetics: media representatives. Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-306).

L’étude des rapports entre père et fille dans la post modernité dans une société patriarcale comme celle de la Syrie représente l’aspect fondamental de cette thèse,et a comme objectif de connaître de quelle manière ses rapports s’établissent, quelles sont leurs caractéristiques et leurs conséquences sur l’adolescent en générale, et plus spécifiquement sur les adolescentes. Quels sont les effets des transformations du monde actuel sur la construction subjective et sur l’expression de la souffrance inhérente à la condition humaine dans le nouvel ordre symbolique qu’imposent aux relations interhumaines le libéralisme galopant de l’économie mondialisée et la technologisation des échanges entre parlêtres (Lesourd, 2007a, p. 11-12). Ce qui me pousse à aller plus loin dans mon investigation sur l’influence de la modernité sur le rapport père-fille est ce que j’ai observé pour ma part : le nombre de tentatives de suicide est remarquablement élevé ces dernières années dans le monde arabe, dans la population féminine comme un mode de réponse aux difficultés vécues par les jeunes filles et les femmes. Ces tentatives de suicide sont d'après moi une conséquence de la disparition des pères et de l’autorité qui est selon Serge LESOURD abusivement opposée aux parents, tenus responsables de la violence de leurs enfants. Selon lui « les pères n’ont pas démissionné, en revanche, le système de référence qui leur donnait du poids a été modifié en Occident » (Lesourd, 2003, p.36). Je pense que c'est également le cas en Orient. Cette thèse est divisée en deux parties, composées, d'une part, de réflexions théoriques et, d'autre part, d’exemples cliniques de la construction de l'identité sexuelle chez les adolescentes syriennes. Cette étude de clinique projective a été effectuée dans le cadre de la recherche CoPsyEnfant menée par l’URP/SCLS de Strasbourg. / This thesis seeks to study the relationship between fathers and daughters in a postmodern patriarchal society. Choosing the Syrian society as its main case study, the paper aims to crystallize a better understanding of how such relationships are established as well as exploring their characteristics, consequences, and effects on adolescence in general, and on teenagers in particular. It also focuses on the transformation effects from the current world, depending on subjective construction, expressions of suffering inherent to human conditions in the new symbolic order that imposes liberalism on interpersonal relations, galloping globalized economy ; and the technologization of exchange among the speaking-beings/parlêtres (Lesourd, 2007a, p. 11-12).The aforementioned factors this paper analyzes encourage further investigation into the influence of modernity on father-daughter bonds. Such investigation is particularly important in light of the remarkable and increasing number of suicide attempts among young girls and women in the Arab region, likely in response to difficulties they face.These suicide attempts, we argue, are a result of fathers’ absence, and the authority which could be abusively opposed to parents as per Serge LESOURD, holding them responsible for violence by their children. Lesourd argues that “fathers did not quit, on the contrary, the reference system which had given them weight, has been modified in the occident” (Lesourd, 2003, p.36). We believe that the case in the Arab world is similar to the one described by Lesourd.The paper is divided into two parts : the first contains theoretical reflections while the second contains clinical examples about the construction of Syrian female teenagers’ sexual identity. This clinical projective study was carried out as part of CoPsyEnfant research, conducted by l’URP/SCLS in Strasbourg.

Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-12-12T17:25:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Moreno Laborda Pacheco.pdf: 5315895 bytes, checksum: b5c532db795c6925548f3e9997639c3b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2013-12-12T18:14:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Moreno Laborda Pacheco.pdf: 5315895 bytes, checksum: b5c532db795c6925548f3e9997639c3b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-12T18:14:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Moreno Laborda Pacheco.pdf: 5315895 bytes, checksum: b5c532db795c6925548f3e9997639c3b (MD5) / O século XVII português assistiu ao florescimento de uma escrita conventual feminina concentrada majoritariamente na epistolografia, na lírica e na elaboração de registros de cariz biográfico sobre religiosas crescidas em virtude — as vidas. Mas não só. Esta tese se dedica a estudar outra fração dessa produção, mais intimamente ligada a registros memorialísticos de tipo institucional. Obras que, na ausência de um gênero ou de uma categoria taxonômica que as definam, são aqui designadas pelo termo genérico "livros de fundação". No centro da análise desenvolvida estão o Tratado da antiga e curiosa fundação do Convento de Jesus de Setúbal (redigido entre 1630 e 1644) e a Notícia da fundação do Convento da Madre de Deus das religiosas descalças de Lisboa (1639-1652). Amparando-se em obras coevas e de perfil semelhante, esta investigação lança luz sobre alguns dos modelos que influenciaram suas autoras, mas sem descurar dos diálogos que elas estabelecem com outras modalidades de escrita conventual feminina — incluídas aí aquelas de tipo administrativo, ligadas à governança dessas instituições. Por fim, o destino dessas obras também serve para perceber os múltiplos agenciamentos que interferiam no caminho das religiosas modernas até o prelo, assim como iluminar de que maneira as zonas de interação entre as culturas do impresso e do manuscrito ofereciam um caminho para evitá-los. The 17th century in Portugal saw the burgeoning of a feminine conventual writing, which focused mainly on epistolography, on lyric poems and on biographical registries of virtuous religious women – called vidas. But that was not all of it. The present work addresses another fragment of this production, closely related to institutional memorialistic registration. In the absence of a genre or a taxonomic category that defines those pieces, they are here designated by the generical expression "livros de fundação". In the core of the present analysis are two of such works: Tratado da antiga e curiosa fundação do Convento de Jesus de Setúbal (1630-1644) and Notícia da fundação do Convento da Madre de Deus das religiosas descalças de Lisboa (1639-1652). With the support of contemporaneous pieces and other works with similar structure, this investigation sheds a light on some of the models that inspired their authors, without neglecting the dialogue they have established with other modalities of feminine conventual writing — including the administrative registries, related to the governance of such institutions. Finally, the trajectories of those pieces help us perceive the multiple interferences in the path of the modern religious women's work to the press. It also illuminates the means in which the interaction between the printing culture and the manuscript culture offered ways to avoid those interferences.