Kön och identitet i förändring

This is the third of a series of reports from the research program Youth culture in Sweden, FUS. In the article ”Narciss and the Other. Fissions and fusions of the gender order”, Johan Fornäs uses the theme of narcissism to discuss a range of theoretical issues on gender and identity production, and argues for a polydimensional, relational, positional and historical perspective. Sabina Cwejman analyses ”Constants and changes in the teenage girl life world”, and reviews different studies of how social power structures and socialisation forms are reproduced and transformed through modernization. In ”Deconstructed masculinity”, Margot Bengtsson discerns five traditions of psychological theories on gender: academic ”scientific” psychology, psychoanalysis, women’s studies, the gender perspective, and modernization theory. Kirsten Drotner’s ”Cultural gender and modern youth” sees gender production as a discourse and a negotiation, and explores some new and gender specific youth cultural tendencies in the relation between different media and between forms of expression. ”From sex role critique to gender analysis. Gender oriented research on youth fiction” is the title of the final text, written by Ulf Boëthius, who describes five positions and phases in gender related studies of youth fiction: sex role studies, critique of ideology, gynocriticism, reception theory and gender analysis