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| Authors: | Jenny Björklund: Växsjö Universitet, Sweden |
| Publication title: | Ett eget rum: Kön, kropp och sexualitet i några svenska samtidsromaner |
| Conference: | Kultur~Natur: Konferens för kulturstudier i Sverige, Conference in Sweden 15–17 June 2009 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 040 |
| Article No.: | 016 |
| Abstract: | Louise Boije af Gennäs and Mian Lodalen depict two kinds of female bodies in their novels: the heterosexual upper-or-middle-class body and the lesbian working-class or left-wing activist body. The heterosexual upper-or-middle-class body is controlled and kept in place in various ways—through clothing, make-up, gestures and even eating disorders. The lesbian working-class or left-wing activist body is described as a place for freedom. It is depicted as natural and is not limited by clothing and make-up, and thus becomes less controlled; it can express sexuality and take up space through gestures and other bodily expressions. This paper focuses on the representation of different bodies in Boije af Gennäs’ and Lodalen’s novels and the influence of gender, sexuality and class on the body’s possibilities to express itself and claim its space in the world. The body thus becomes a place where different identities as well as ideas of nature and culture meet. |
| Language: | Swedish |
| Year: | 2009 |
| No. of pages: | 6 |
| Pages: | 155-160 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/040/016/ecp0904016.pdf |
| Available: | 2009-10-26 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
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