Cosmopolitan women: writing the female self on the european cultural and geographical north-south axis

mattos-parreira, merja2013-09-102013-09-1020079789899534704AUT: MPA00804http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/2877Organização de Carlos Ceia e Isabel LousadaThis paper sets out to compare the women's self image presented on the covers and in the contents pages of the "global" magazine Cosmopolitan in Portuguese/Spanish ("Catholic" south) and English/Finnish/Swedish ("Protestant" north). The keyword concept of my approach is textual identity construction through a transdisciplinary approach - i.e. cultura, society and language; this means that I examine the theme of identity construction by combining several disciplinary orientations and establishing relationships between them.engCosmopolitan women: writing the female self on the european cultural and geographical north-south axisconference object