Undressing the Maid: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in the Construction of the Finnish NationFinnish Literature Society, Finland, 2004 - 222 ページ This study analyses how the imaginary Finnish Maid (Suomi-neito) was used to construct the Finnish nation at the turn of the 20th century. It focuses on gender, femininity and masculinity, sexuality and body as well as on the images of virginity, bridehood and sexual violence. The study argues that Finnish male intellectuals saw the Finnish nation as their female beloved, a potential bride, but that they did not get her and the Finnish Maid remained an eternal virgin. In addition, the Finnish Maid was seen as being raped by the Russians. The materials analysed in this study consist of caricatures, poems and national monuments. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
GENDER SEXUALITY AND THE BODY IN THE CONSTRUCTIONS | 34 |
NATIONAL SPACE | 59 |
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According Alexander Federley Alexander II argues artists bodily bourgeois captive caricatures chapter concept context contrapposto culture desire discourse early twentieth century elite Erkko eroticized ethnic example female body female figure feminine feminist feminized Fennoman Finland Finnish Maid Finnish nation Foucault fraternity Fyren geography grotesque Hargrove Helsinki heterosexual Hietala historian homosocial ideal imagery instance J.L. Runeberg Kalevala Kemiläinen Kianto Kirjallisuuden Kurikka Kurikka 15 Lönnrot Louhi male figures masculinity Matti McClintock metaphor Moder Svea monuments Mosse mother motherhood Nagel national dress national identity national space nationalist Nätkin nineteenth century Ola Fogelberg Ollila painting personification picture poem political portrayed position postcards racial rape Reitala representation Russian satirical magazines Senate Square Seura sexual Smeds social Socialists society statue Suomalainen Suomen Suometar-Mamma Suomi Svecoman Swedish Swedish People's Party Swedish-speaking symbol Tarja Toimittaneet Tuulispää Uusi Suometar Velikulta virgin visual Walter Runeberg woman women young