Essays about: "Lyndsay Nylander"

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  1. 1. (DE)CONSTRUCTING SEXUALITY AND VIRGINITY AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SLIDKRANS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Lyndsay Nylander; Rachel Cooper; [2010]
    Keywords : feminist anthropology; sexuality; virginity; language; education; Other; silence; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes how the Swedish organization Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning (in English, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) constructs sexuality through the introduction of the word slidkrans. The word slidkrans (vaginal corona in English), was formally introduced by RFSU in 2009 as a replacement for the word for the hymen, mödomshinna, which literally means “virginity membrane. READ MORE