Idealkvinnan : vem var hon då och vem är hon nu? En historiskt jämförande innehållsanalys mellan 1400-talets Malleus maleficarum och nutida påvliga texter
(2014) MRSK30 20141Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- This essays focus is to unravel the discourses concerning women by doing a historic-comparative qualitative content analysis on Malleus Maleficarum, written in 1486, and modern papal writings in order to compare the similar or different ways in which the ideal woman is understood. The reason for why these materials have been chosen is based on the influential spread these writing had or have, and consequently the impact of these writing in their social, historical and cultural contexts, and therefore their influence in their times perception of the ideal woman. Malleus view on women resulted in the genocide known as the witch-hunt during the 15th-17th centuries, which show the immense response of its message. The papal writings effect the... (More)
- This essays focus is to unravel the discourses concerning women by doing a historic-comparative qualitative content analysis on Malleus Maleficarum, written in 1486, and modern papal writings in order to compare the similar or different ways in which the ideal woman is understood. The reason for why these materials have been chosen is based on the influential spread these writing had or have, and consequently the impact of these writing in their social, historical and cultural contexts, and therefore their influence in their times perception of the ideal woman. Malleus view on women resulted in the genocide known as the witch-hunt during the 15th-17th centuries, which show the immense response of its message. The papal writings effect the lives of 1,2 billion people around the world and their biddings are absorbed and followed by millions, signifying the vast influence their ideal view concerning also women.
What this essay does is examining the different discourses related to the ideal woman in order to find markers, which suggest the typical attributes and abilities used to describe her, by doing a content analysis, which conclude whether or not the markers are used similarly in past and present contexts. This is done by an androcentric analysis of the ideal women in relation to the identities of the man and the witch, understood as the bad woman, which it is this essays conviction helped shape the ideal. (Less)
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- author
- Thorén, Josefine LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MRSK30 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Catholic church, Middle Ages, Malleus Maleficarum, Simone de Beauvoir, androcentrism, witch, man, Ideal, woman, Johannes Paulus II, Benedictus XVI, qualitative content analysis, mänskliga rättigheter, human rights
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4452022
- date added to LUP
- 2014-08-20 14:56:03
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:41
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