The thesis Gender, identity, body attempts to set out a method suitable for historical description and analysis of representations of bodily identities, such as old age, childhood, race etc. The conceptualization of gender identities presents our starting point, the very capacity of the term of gender is examined through the reading of the works of Joan W. Scott and Judith Butler. In respect to our final purpose, the term appears convenient only partially, for it balances between two extremes: it is either overly dependent on gender binarism or it utterly ceases to represent bodily identities. This paper brings an alternative concept: corpus. Combining the concept of gender and the phenomenology of body, it conceives bodily identity as a type of Paul Ricoeur's narrative identity. Composing different bodily parts and behaviour stereotypes, this kind of identity creates a distinctive collective identity: corpus. In its next part, the thesis follows the construction of representations of old age and adolescence in the field of Czechoslovakian 20th century developmental psychology. It appears that both old age and youth are disqualified in the name of a symbolic adult-centrism. Keywords: gender studies - identity - phenomenology of body - marginal groups in the 20th century

Syftet med studien är att med utgångspunkt i kroppens fenomenologi utforska vilka reaktioner som uppstår i kroppen när jag är nervös vid olika typer av framträdanden. Förutom det ska också undersökas mentalträningens betydelse för minskning av stress och nervositet och dess påverkan på min gestaltningsförmåga vid dessa spelningstillfällen. I bakgrundskapitlet presenteras bland annat begrepp som nervositet, stress, musikalisk prestationsångest, med fler. Förutom det i bakgrundkapitel redovisas relevant forskning inom området och studiens teoretiska perspektiv-kroppens fenomenologi. I metodkapitlet presenteras den huvudsakliga metoden för dokumentation av studien- loggboksskrivande samt komplementär metod-videoinspelning. Resultatet redovisas under rubriker: Nervositet och oro i olika uppspelstillfällen samtMentala träningens påverkan på nervositet och stressnivå samt gestaltningsförmåga. Under dessa teman redovisas hur negativa upplevelser av nervositet och oro vid olika uppspelstillfällen så småningom med hjälp av mental träning förändras till positiva. I diskussionen redovisas teman:Jämförelse mellan nervositet och oro innan, under och efter mentalträningsprojektet och Vikten av kontinuerlig övning samt ljudspårens effektivitet. I denna del beskrivs även mina reflektioner kring följande arbetets betydelse för mig själv och idéer om fortsatt forskning på området. / The purpose of present study is to investigate from a phenomenology of body perspective what reactions occur in my body when I am nervous at different performance situations. Apart from that this study will investigate importance of mental training for decrease of stress and nervousness and its influence on my performance ability in this performance situations. In background chapter are definitions of nervousness, stress, musical performance anxiety and more presented. Apart from that in background chapter are earlier studies on this field and following studies theoretical perspective – phenomenology of body presented. In method chapter the methods of documentation - journal notes and video are presented. Result chapter is showed in themes: Nervousness and anxiety in different performance situations and Influence of mental training on nervousness and stress level and performance ability. In these chapters is shown how my negative feelings and experiences of nervousness and anxiety with mental trainings help transformed into positive. In discussion chapter following themes are showed: Comparison between nervousness and anxiety before, under and after mental trainingandImportance of continuous training and effectiveness of recordings. In this chapter, even my thoughts about following studies importance for myself and ideas about further research on the field are presented.