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The contributors draw on the work of theorists including Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Julia Kristeva and Hayden White, reading this against texts by Nordic writers, filmmakers and artists such as Edith Sodergran, Ellen Key, Knut Hamsun, Monika Fagerholm, Mai Zetterling, Gunvor Hofmo, Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Vibeke Gronfeldt.  POWER and its distribution in society are analysed both as a problem central to the construction of the nation-state and welfare society, and as a dynamic underlying the cultural texts which function as sites where social practice, political engagement and aesthetic creativity meet and merge. TEXT is understood in this volume in a wide sense, encompassing painting, handicrafts, film , photography and installations, as well as poetry, the novel, and drama. 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