RT Article
T1 Negotiating Religion: Cultural Representations of Conservative Protestant Women and Girls in Northern and Western Europe
JF Temenos
VO 56
IS 2
SP 227
OP 249
A1 Brandt, Nella van den
A1 Wallenius-Korkalo, Sandra
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1744399360
AB This article analyses the production of gendered subjectivities in contemporary cultural representations of women and girls belonging to conservative protestant communities in Northern and Western Europe. We take the recent work of the Finnish and Dutch female novelists Pauliina Rauhala and Franca Treur as our case study. We explore how their novels represent the negotiations of women and girls from conservative protestant faiths and traditions. Approaching the novels as narratives of sense-making, we focus on notions of creativity and imagination, and gendered embodied experiences. Our analysis thus sheds light on contemporary understandings of women in conservative religions in contemporary Northern and Western Europe.
K1 Europe
K1 conservative religion
K1 literary fiction
K1 Representation
K1 Sense-making
K1 Women
DO 10.33356/temenos.79326