This dissertation studies the development of a regulation of prostitution in Stockholm during the period 1812-1880. The development of the regulation system is seen in the light of an analytical framework, developed from Carole Pateman's ideas on the sexual contract, and a feministic critique and elaboration of Jürgen Habermas's ideas on the public sphere. The regulation of prostitution was a common characteristic for many metropolises in Europe during the nineteenth century, where supposedly loose and lecherous women were medically and spatially controlled to impede the spread of venereal diseases. Stockholm, and Sweden as a whole, went from a non-gendered to a gendered control of venereal disease, which eventually developed into a spatial control of public women. This study argues that the practices of a regulation system was at first part of an attempt to import what was seen as part of modernisation. Rather than to prohibit extra-marital sexual relations, these were to be controlled and supervised. Eventually the system was adapted to local circumstances in Stockholm, and a control of women's sexuality in public became part of a metropolitan modernity. In the process of the professionalisation of groups such as the police and the physicians, public women were over time perceived as a group of professional prostitutes. The possibility to live off prostitution as a transitory stage in women's lives disappeared, and prostitution became a medically and spatially controlled trade.

Denna uppsats hanterar hur kvinnliga karaktärer porträtteras i romantisk komedi genom att närmare studera begreppet ”Manic Pixie Dream Girl”. Detta begrepp leder till missförstånd om kvinnans roll i filmens värld och skapar diskussioner om jämställdhet och västerländsk berättarkultur. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka två kvinnor i två olika romantiska komedier uppfyller de kriterier som nämns av Manic Pixie Dream Girl-begreppets myntare, Nathan Rabin, har lagt fram och om det således är motiverat att argumentera att karaktärerna upprätthåller sexistiska synsätt. Den teoretiska grund som uppsatsen bygger på kommer främst från feministisk teori, men även från Laura Mulveys teori om skopofili och den manliga blicken. För att analysera det utvalda materialet används en skräddarsydd karaktärsanalytisk metod. Resultatet visar att, trots att de kvinnliga karaktärerna må uppfylla några eller flera av de kriterier som Rabin ställer fram så innebär inte det direkt att karaktärerna är endimensionella och, i förlängning, overkliga porträtt av kvinnor i allmänhet. / This essay deals with how female characters are portrayed in romantic comedies by studying the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl"-phenomenon closer. This concept leads to misunderstandings about women's roles in the world of cinema and creates discussions about equality and Western storytelling. The purpose of this essay is to study two women in two different romantic comedies and study if they meet the criteria Nathan Rabin, the man who coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, has announced to be qualities of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl and whether it is justified to argue that the female characters maintain sexist ideals. The theoretical basis on which the essay is based primarily comes from feminist theory, but also from Laura Mulvey’s theory of scopophilia and “the male gaze”. To analyze the selected material I have chosen to use a customized method of character analysis. The results show that, despite the fact that the female characters may meet some or more of the criteria Rabin have announced, the material does not directly imply that the characters are one-dimensional and, in extension, improbable and unreal portraits of women in general.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att genom en genusvetenskaplig och socialkonstruktivistisk ansats undersöka hur kvinnor framställs i de svenska hårdrocksmagasinen Close-Up Magazine och Sweden Rock Magazine. Då majoriteten av den genusrelaterade medieforskningen har intresserat sig för reklam- och modebilder finns en kunskapslucka kring hur kvinnor framställs i bilder inom genrer vid sidan av dessa. Denna studie avsåg att genom semiotisk textanalys undersöka bilder i dessa magasin, för att identifiera de kvinnliga stereotyperna i dem och sedan jämföra dessa med etablerade stereotyper som tidigare forskning påvisat. Sammanlagt analyserades 28 bilder i 15 magasin från 2013 utifrån feministisk blickteori och Goffmans teori om könsframställning. Tre tydliga kvinnliga stereotyper framträdde i resultatet. Dessa benämnde vi som Den hårda, Den medkännande och Den objektifierade. De två sistnämnda är väl kända sedan innan inom forskningssammanhang medan Den hårda kvinnan, som bland annat uppvisar tecken på aggressivitet, avsky och överlägsenhet, inte påträffats i liknande studier innan. Denna nyfunna stereotyps blick, som inte definierats i tidigare forskning, namngav vi The Glare. Slutligen påvisar studiens resultat en större nyansering av de stereotyper som tidigare har diskuterats i genusrelaterad medieforskning. Resultaten tyder på att det inte finns en enhetlig kvinnlig stereotyp, utan att de kan variera beroende på genre och kulturell kontext. / The aim of this paper was to examine how women are portrayed in the Swedish metal magazines Close-Up Magazine and Sweden Rock Magazine from a gender theoretical and social constructivist perspective. Since the majority of the gender related media research have focused on pictures in fashion and advertising, there is a lack of awareness regarding how women are portrayed in other genres. This study’s objective was to examine pictures in these magazines in order to identify female stereotypes and compare them to established stereotypes from previous studies. In total 28 pictures from 15 magazines, that were published in 2013, were analyzed based on the understanding of feminist theory and Goffman’s theory of gender display. Three distinctive female stereotypes appeared in the results. These were titled The tough, The compassionate and The objectified. The last two are well known in the media research field while The tough woman, who show signs of aggression, contempt and superiority, has not appeared in previous studies. This new stereotype's view of the observer, which has not been defined in previous studies, we decided to call The glare. The results show a greater variety of stereotypes than what has been discussed in prior media related research. They also indicate that there is no uniform female stereotype and that they vary depending on genre and cultural context.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009. / Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Peg Brand, James Capshew, Richard Gunderman, Jane E. Schultz. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-122).

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This thesis examines representations of the intimate as experienced by female protagonists, through expressions related to the heart, the soul and the body, in a comparative study of novels by French women writers from the 19th century and the present day. The corpus consists of seven novels : Ourika by Claire de Duras (1822), Lélia by George Sand (1833 & 1839), Monsieur Vénus. Roman matérialiste by Rachilde (1884), Femme nue, femme noire by Calixthe Beyala (2003), Vous parler d’elle by Claire Castillon (2004), Le Cœur cousu by Carole Martinez (2007), and Mon cœur à l’étroit by Marie NDiaye (2007). As a starting point, the thesis provides an extensive literature survey of existing research on the intimate as well as an introduction of the feminist and psychanalytic approaches underpinning the subsequent analyses, which are conducted in two parts, according to the personal and relational dimensions of the intimate. The theories of Beauvoir, Kristeva and Lacan offer perspectives on the intimate experience of women characters which is conveyed in literary imagery as the desire of the Other, and which is oppressed in a patriarchal symbolic order, although an aesthetic with specific narrative techniques related to women’s experience of the intimate is identified in most of the novels. These features include blurring and fragmentation of spatiotemporality, a marked intricacy of narrative voice, proximate first-person narrators, and the development of themes such as the writing of the body, sensed as a container. A discrepancy is noticed between the dominating androcentric posture of the heroines which is found in underlying discourse, and the sensorial dimension of their experience. This leads to a sublimation of body and sexuality in the romantic novels, a masochistic exaltation of the body and pain in the decadent novel and a psychotic and paranoid state in the novels from present day literature. The themes of female sacrifice and of death and denial of the body are very strong throughout the corpus. Relationships within the family are explored, including the mother-daughter relationships that are emphasised in the recent novels but not in those from the 19th century. Family structure, Christian culture and patriarchal, hierarchical social organisation are analysed as grounds for women’s alienation in the novels. The issue of perversion, which is striking in the novels on several different levels, is described as a transgression which involves the reader.

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This dissertation is a critical examination of selected Tsonga novels by male and female writers. Positive and negative images of women by these authors are analysed, compared and evaluated from a feminist perspective. Emphasis is laid on the manner in which Tsonga writers portray female characters in a changing society and the extent to which the images of women in this literature represent the present day woman. Adherence to ideological, cultural and traditional values as well as the differences in portrayal of women by male and female writers is also investigated. Through a comparison of novels written by male and female writers it is established that because of patriarchy these writers differ markedly in their portrayal of female characters. In all the novels analysed, the sociol-cultural context influences the way in which these writers portray female characters. Male writers promote traditional values which female writers strive to discard by portraying female characters who predominantly undermine stereotypical cultural sex-roles. / African languages / M.A. (African languages)

O estudo toma por base a Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde da Mulher lançada, em 1984, como uma política nacional que rompia com um modelo tradicional de assistência à saúde das mulheres, materno-infantil e impositivo, e discute, a partir de evidências, a não conformidade das práticas hoje vigentes de atenção à saúde da população feminina com os princípios que orientam a política. A partir de um resgate histórico da construção dos marcos conceituais e normativos da saúde da mulher e da integralidade em saúde, discute-se a formação de um saber médico fundado em uma racionalidade cartesiana - analítica e mecanicista - como inadequado a uma prática profissional consistente com esses princípios. Sob o facho teórico da epistemologia feminista advogada por Sandra Harding e Helen Longino e caracterizada por um método científico feminista, o qual rechaça a pseudo "neutralidade" da ciência em favor de um fazer científico posicionado a partir da perspectiva e das necessidades das mulheres, a pesquisa levanta a hipótese de que a formação médica constitui um dos obstáculos à implementação efetiva da PNAISM e propõe-se a investigar em que medida os princípios e valores da equidade de gênero e da integralidade em saúde são transmitidos aos estudantes de medicina nas escolas médicas do RS. O estudo revelou esforços por parte de muitas das escolas no sentido de adaptar seus currículos de modo a favorecer uma visão integral da saúde, mas que é preciso aprofundar as mudanças para lograr este objetivo. No que concerne à equidade de gênero e aos princípios que norteiam a saúde integral das mulheres, a pesquisa apontou o despreparo das escolas para uma formação consistente com tais princípios e a prevalência de representações e percepções da mulher que perpetuam o foco materno-infantil na assistência à saúde. / The study is based on the National Policy of Comprehensive Healthcare for Women (PNAISM) launched, in 1984, as an innovative countrywide policy which was to break with the old standard of women's healthcare focused exclusively on mother-baby care, and discusses, upon evidence, the non-conformity of current healthcare practices aimed at women to the principles that guide that policy. Starting from a historical recovery of the building process of both women's health and comprehensive health conceptual and normative framework, we discuss the constitution of a medical knowledge founded on a Cartesian rationality - analytical and technicist - as one improper for a medical practice that is to be coherent with those principles. Under the theoretical light of the feminist epistemology advocated by Sandra Harding and Helen Longino and characterized by a feminist scientific method that rejects the pseudo "value free" character of the scientific knowledge on behalf of a situated scientific method that produces knowledge from women's perspective and needs, we suggest that the existing model of medical education is a major hindrance to the effective implementation of PNAISM and propose to investigate whether and to what extent the principles and values of gender equity and comprehensive healthcare are communicated to medical students in the medical schools of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The research showed some efforts on the part of many medical schools aimed at adjusting their curricula so that to favor a comprehensive view of health and healthcare, although much deeper changes are needed in order to reach this goal. In what respects to gender equity and to the principles that guide the proposal of comprehensive healthcare aimed at women, the research unveiled the current incapability of medical schools for an education process that is consistent with such principles and the prevalence of representations and perceptions of woman that tend to perpetuate the mother-baby emphasis in women's healthcare. / El estudio parte de la Política Nacional de Atención Integral en Salud de la Mujer, puesta en marcha en 1984 como una política nacional que rompió con el modelo tradicional - materno infantil y autoritario - de atención a la salud de las mujeres, y examina, a partir de evidencias, la disconformidad de las prácticas vigentes de atención a la salud frente a los principios que rigen la política. Partiendo del rescate histórico del proceso de construcción de los marcos conceptuales y normativos de la salud de la mujer y de la salud integral, este estudio discute la inadecuación de una formación del saber médico fundada en la racionalidad cartesiana - analítica y mecanicista - para una práctica profesional coherente con estos principios. Basada en la epistemología feminista conforme expresada por Sandra Harding y Helen Longino, la cual se caracteriza por un método científico feminista y rechaza la pseudo "neutralidad" de la ciencia en favor de una toma de posición científica desde la perspectiva y necesidades de las mujeres, la investigación plantea la hipótesis de que la educación médica es uno de los obstáculos para la aplicación efectiva de PNAISM y se propone investigar en qué medida los principios y valores de la equidad de género y la integridad en salud son transmitidos a los estudiantes en las facultades de medicina del estado de Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil). El estudio ha mostrado que existen esfuerzos por parte de muchas escuelas para adaptar sus planes de estudio con el fin de promover una visión integral de la salud, pero que todavía es necesario profundizar los cambios para lograr este objetivo. En lo que respecta a la igualdad de género y los principios que guían la política de salud integral de las mujeres, el estudio apuntó la inadecuación de las estructuras y contenidos de los currículos de medicina para una formación acorde con estos principios, además del predominio de percepciones y representaciones de la mujer que perpetúan el énfasis en la atención materno-infantil en salud.

Women in the Theological Anthropology of the Afrikaans Reformed Tradition This dissertation examines women in the theological anthropology of the Afrikaans Reformed Churches. The study is set out as follows: In Chapter 1, a survey of methodology is presented. The exposition of the question about the theological anthropology is done against a poststructural background. Both structuralism and poststructuralism largely put aside existentialism as an inadequate methodology. Chapter 2 aims to give an overview of the contribution of Michel Foucault. The chapter begins with a discussion of structuralism. This brief overview is then followed by a classification and investigation of the basic aspects of Foucault's approach. The chapter highlights Foucault's rootedness in poststructuralism. Chapter 3 attempts to explain silence of women in the theological anthropology of Dutch Reformed Church. The central aim of Chapter 3 is to demonstrate, against the development of the women ministries and the discourse about the ordination of women, that the Dutch Reformed Church theological anthropology is deeply influenced by the discursive practices developed during 1928-1932. Chapter 4 gives an overview of the developments in the theological anthropology of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, Dutch Reformed Church of Africa and the Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa that took place from 1924 until 2002. Different approaches to the women question developed in the course of time. At the heart of the discourse is the shift in the reading process. The developments in the feminist standpoint theory as such led to this displacement. In Chapter 5 the deconstruction of the theological anthropology are being discussed. Preference is given in this chapter to the concept partnership or transformative relations. In the concluding chapter [Chapter 6], a poststructural feminist discourse is presented. Selected guidelines that the church may wish to take into account in the deconstructing of the theological anthropology are suggested. In the future, the frame of reference to the women question would likely be poststructural. / Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)