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    ”A Mother Schooled in Misery” – Mary Wollstonecraft and the Motherhood
    (2019-10-03) Morgan, Ivar; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
    This essay deals with the enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecrafts views on motherhood. By reading some of Wollstonecrafts works and a collection of her private letters adressed to her lover Gilbert Imlay an interesting picture of her views regarding maternity emerges. The key aspects when it comes to understand her views in these matters, as this essay shows, comes down to a few notions. Reason is one of them but also duty and tenderness. The study shows that the first two of these notions are widley discussed in relation to maternal matters in her books while the last one, tenderness, is more central in her private letters. The essay also works from the hypothesis that the mother plays an important part when it comes to Wollstonecrafts ideas regarding womens liberation. For Wollstonecraft women will be liberated through education and this study shows the importance of the mother in this regard. This essey also shows that according to Wollstonecraft humans are formed by the social enviroment they are brought up in and the parents becomes the role models. It is therefore crucial to educate good or otherwise the human race will be kept in darkness and lack reason.
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    Talkin' New York
    (2019-10-03) Morgan, Ivar; University of Gothenburg / Department of Historical Studies; Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för historiska studier
    This thesis deals with aspects of femininty and masculinity in Greenwich Villages folk music movement during it's heyday in the 1960s. The purpouse of the study is to challenge the common image of the folknik movement as progressive by showing that women was marginalized. By analyzing autobiographies in the light of Michail Bachtins ideas about dialogical text a general picture emerges that shows that women didn't have the same status as men in the movement. As a matter of fact women where looked upon as less authentic than men, and their main function was to serve them, especially if they where romantically involved. Authenticity was a word of honor and hence women where often looked down upon. The subjects for this study is following; autobiographies by the musicians Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Mary Travers and the artist Suze Rotolo.
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    Vår vän och kamrat
    (2019-10-03) Morgan, Ivar; University of Gothenburg / Department of Historical Studies; Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för historiska studier
    This study deals with the Swedish Marxist-Leninists view on time and authoritarian leaders, in particular, Josef Stalin and Mao Tse-tung 1968-1972. In order to do that this study survey three different categories; criticism of the western society, utopia and the authoritarian leaders. By examining three marxist-leninist journals, Gnistan, Clarté and Proletären, a picture emerges in which the Swedish Marxist-Leninist Movement was skeptical to the western society, saw utopia in communistic countries such as China and Albania and had a positive view on Stalin and Mao. The different elements of the survey are then discussed in the light of the historian Reinhart Kosellecks ideas of historical time and the conclusion is that elements such as experience and expectation were linked to the Swedish Marxist-Leninists submission to authoritarian leaders and that these leaders embodied different strategies in which one could place oneself in time.