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Research project The project Northern Genders addresses the question of what differences and similarities there are between men’s and women’s representations of the Nordic North and to what extent the landscape and inhabitants of the region are presented in gender-coded terms.
The project Northern Genders addresses the question of what differences and similarities there are between men’s and women’s representations of the Nordic North and to what extent the landscape and inhabitants of the region are presented in gender-coded terms. Important questions are whether there are significant differences between men’s and women’s accounts or whether social and literary conventions and the expectations of readers lead writers to describe the region in similar ways. The study aims to elucidate to what extent the North is represented as a masculine testing ground, how far tourist discourses may be seen as gendering the region as more feminine, how far references to the Viking past are used to construct a version of muscular masculinity and in what way the works reflect the more advanced situation for women in the Nordic countries, manifested in Finland granting women the right to vote as the first country in Europe in 1906. The study will concentrate on a selection of Anglophone nineteenth-century travel narratives published between 1849 and 1911.
Finansår , 2008, 2009
huvudman: Heidi Hansson, finansiar: Norges forskningsråd, y2008: 200, y2009: 210,