Den nationella modern : moderskap i konstruktioner av svensk nationell gemenskap under 1900-talets första hälft
The National Mother : Motherhood in Constructions of a Swedish Community, c. 1900–1950
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Summary, in English
The dissertation's second part comprises a case study, in which I investigate how women in favour of national defence used motherhood as a way of entering a national discourse. The arrangement of the thesis - part one concentrating on the symbolism; part two on the normative - is not absolute, however. Even in the former, I investigate which groups conveyed the discourses, in the same way that the latter section not only deals with how a group of women interpreted the symbols normatively; the symbols themselves are also discussed. Overarching questions in all these studies have concerned the form that ideas and notions about a national community actually took; the role of a national motherhood; how ideas regarding nation and motherhood changed, and the consequences of this for gender constructions. In the second part, I analyse how nationally-orientated women during the studied period were influenced by the discourses and attempted to change them.
Department/s
Publishing year
2002
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Studia historica Lundensia
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Historiska Media
Topic
- History
Keywords
- Contemporary history (since 1914)
- women
- national defence
- the royal family
- Mother's Day
- mother Svea
- modernity
- motherhood
- nationalism
- gender
- Nutidshistoria (från 1914)
- Sociology
- Sociologi
Status
Published
Supervisor
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1650-755X
- ISSN: 1650-755X
- ISBN: 91-628-5119-5
- ISRN: LUHFDA/HFHI-2002/1108-SE + 308
Defence date
13 April 2002
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Department of History, Stora Magle Kyrkogata 12 A, Lund, Room 3
Opponent
- Elisabeth Elgán (Fil. Dr.)