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“Jeg er en flekk“: Om menstruasjon og jentepubertet i nyere norsk barne- og ungdomslitteratur
No full textTitle: "I'm a Stain": On Menstruation and Female Puberty in Contemporary Norwegian Literature for Children and YouthIn recent years, we have seen a vigorous exploration of the phenomenon of menstruation in the Scandinavian public sphere and within Scandinavian literature, to the extent that it has been coined a “menstrual revolution”. In that context, this article examines how contemporary Norwegian novels for children and young people treat the topic of menstruation, and in particular the topic of menarche, the first menstruation. The books put under scrutiny are Marianne Viermyr’s Blodig alvor, Anneli Klepp’s Hvis du elsker meg, Vera Micalsen’s Hyperpubertet, Heidi Linde's Pym Petterson mislykka skoleball, and Gro Dahle and Kaia Dahle Nyhus' graphic novel Megzilla. All five novels highlight the social, cultural and relational meanings and consequences of menarche and menstruation. In these novels, puberty implies the risk and anxiety of exposure by one’s one body, and hence a strong need to exert control over the body. Prominent themes in these books are furthermore the difficulties of managing the menstruation and keeping it private, the importance of female support, and mother-daughter relationships marked by ambivalence. To shed light upon these findings, the literary works are discussed with reference to sociological and psychological research, in particular from the work by Laura Fringeson, Elina Oinas and Wendy Weil, as well as with reference to Swedish girlhood studies
Sun-Kyoung Choi, Kraften att älska, makten att tjäna: Religion, emancipation och den kvinnliga skapande kraften i Jeanna Oterdahls sagor 1908 – 1927
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Att göra gott: Svenska förlags- och författarröster om lättläst ungdomslitteratur
No full textTitle: The Will to Do Good: Swedish Publishing Houses and Authors on Easy-to-Read Young Adult FictionQuestions about the function of literature are highly relevant, especially considering today’s great concern for the status of literature and for young people’s reading. In this article we investigate easy-to-read, or easy reader, a text type rapidly progressing in Sweden, and increasingly highlighted as a solution to the weak interest in reading among young people. Easy reader books originate from the democratic argument that everyone has the right to be able to read well enough and understand information. Although a significant part of today’s Swedish book market consists of easy-to-read literature, we know very little about the attitudes towards this literature and its readers. While easy-to-read books are made accessible on the market through different channels, the authors and publishing houses play a particularly important role. This article describes and discusses Swedish authors’ and publishing houses’ values and attitudes to their books, their readers and their mission, through interviews with 15 authors and three publishing houses conducted during 2014–2015. The article shows that the will to do good is a major motivation to act within the easy-reading field. The authors and the publishing houses look upon their mission as very important for a group of struggling or reluctant readers. According to the authors and publishing houses, this group requires texts that are characterized by simplicity in terms of recognition of characters, settings and themes. They also want to remove the stigmatization of easy readers, at the same time as the books are intended to serve as a didactic tool. Our results also show that the majority of authors combine their writing with a large number of author visits in schools
