Varför gifter vi oss? En diskursanalys av äktenskapsbegreppet i svensk tidningsmedia
(2013) GNVK01 20122Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- This study aims to discuss the cultural ideas concerning marriage from a critical point of view. The material investigated is newspaper articles from the year 2008 when a law proposition to introduce gay marriage was being debated. In the debate, values and definitions of what a marriage is were discussed, and I see these discussions as an example of cultural ideas about marriage. With the help of discourse theory, I then analyse how consistent and/or ambiguous definitions of marriage are in the material. Then by using the concept of nodal points, I show how the understanding of marriage rests on connotations of ideas about love, family and society. As a final discussion, I elaborate on the concept of an imagined form with a supposed... (More)
- This study aims to discuss the cultural ideas concerning marriage from a critical point of view. The material investigated is newspaper articles from the year 2008 when a law proposition to introduce gay marriage was being debated. In the debate, values and definitions of what a marriage is were discussed, and I see these discussions as an example of cultural ideas about marriage. With the help of discourse theory, I then analyse how consistent and/or ambiguous definitions of marriage are in the material. Then by using the concept of nodal points, I show how the understanding of marriage rests on connotations of ideas about love, family and society. As a final discussion, I elaborate on the concept of an imagined form with a supposed content. My conclusion suggests that to maintain the idea of marriage as the most desirable form for relations between couples, a separation of form and content is not possible. When such a deconstruction is done, marriage’s hegemonic position could be renegotiated. (Less)
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