Blar i Faculty of Humanities på emneord "Gender"
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Cultural Appropriation of Computers in Norway 1980-2000
(Chapter, 2007)This article discusses how the discourse of computers developed in Norwegian culture between 1980 and 2000 based on empirical material from the largest Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten. The discourse analysis illustrates ... -
The Discomfort of civilization: Destabilizing the Bildungsroman in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and Jacob's Room
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)Throughout her authorship Virginia Woolf was fascinated by the relationship between the individual and society and with finding literary forms to express the changing conceptions of selfhood, of subject formation, and of ... -
Explorations of Gender Identity; A Study of Masculinity and Gender Predicaments in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Cormac McCarthy's male-centered prose has engendered debate amongst scholars. Are his lack of female characters an expression of misogyny? And does McCarthy simply regenerate gender stereotypes? By using insights from queer ... -
Fødselens Ontologi: Kjønnsforskjellen i Platons og Batailles tenkning om det erotiske begjær
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This thesis will examine the ontology of birth in the thoughts of Bataille and Plato. By making birth, pregnancy and the female body the prism through which the connection between death, sexuality and transgression is ... -
Instinct or Insight in Dystopia. Reading Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler through a Darwinian Lens
(Master thesis, 2011-11-20)Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author known for novels such as The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. Octavia Estelle Butler is an American author who has won several awards for her work. The novels I have selected for this ... -
Irish triangles - gender and nationalism in James Joyce's Ulysses
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)In the first chapter, I explore the numerous mythic and discursive formations that represented Ireland as a woman, made contemporary by the Irish Literary Revival and British caricatures, among others. Molly Bloom, though ... -
Mellom Butler og Bourdieu: En undersøkelse av hvordan språk påvirker kjønn
(Master thesis, 2023-05-29)Jeg hevder at det er nyttig å lese Judith Butler og Pierre Bourdieu sammen for å forstå hvordan språk påvirker kjønn. Jeg argumenterer for dette ved å fokusere spesifikt på hvordan Bourdieu sitt konsept av habitus kan ... -
The Non-sense of Gender in Neverwinter Nights
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Ord/Kjønn - ei lesing av Arne Lygre sin forfattarskap
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16)I oppgåva Ord/Kjønn – ei lesing av Arne Lygre sin dramatiske forfattarskap undersøkjer eg korleis Arne Lygre sine karakterar problematiserer kjønn i dei tre skodespela Mamma og meg og menn (1998), Dager under (2008) og Jeg ... -
Science Fiction as Political Texts: Examining how critical dystopian narratives by Ocatvia Butler and Eleanor Arnason Undermine the system
(Master thesis, 2018-05-25)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan science-fiction, i tekst form, kan bli brukt til å undergrave seksuell forståelse i amerikansk kultur. Ved å bruke Tom Moylan og Raffaelle Baccolini sitt teoritiske arbeid om kritisk ... -
'This Is How You Made Me': The Current State of Hypermasculinity in Mainstream Rap through the Lens of Jay-Z's Lyrics
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Walking, Haunting, and Affirmative Aesthetics: The Case of Women without Men
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-22)Walking and ‘haunting space’ have become means of political and aesthetic resistance to the invisibility or inhospitality that women face in the public sphere. Power imbalance in spatial habitation—‘power-geometry’ in ...