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The tricky farmhand and the innocent maid: erotic narrative and construction of gender in premodern Sweden
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The main goal of my study is to illuminate in what ways erotic narrative has contributed to construction of gender and to legitimize gender differences and male hierarchy in premodern Sweden. Cultural identities are contructed and negotiated in social action both through social experience and through discourse. In these processes narrative performance played an important role. I combine narrative analysis with postmodern theories on gender and identity construction. This work takes as a tacit assumption that premodern women and men also thought of themselves as gendered subjects.