In this essay I analyze Karin Boye?s first novel, Astarte, focusing on her views concerning norms,ideals and female liberation. The novel is written in a tone of irony, allowing for many of thecharacters to be viewed as caricatures. The theories and methods I use are drawn from genderstudies and queer theory. Queer theorist Judith Butler, and the concepts of performativity, interpellation, genealogy and the heterosexual matrix, are of central importance for my analysis.

Pa? sociala na?tverkssidor tilla?ts anva?ndarna att presentera sig sja?lva. Sociala medier ger anva?ndarna mo?jlighet att styra och kontrollera sin presentation pa? ett annat vis a?n hur presentationen kan styras i ansikte-mot-ansikte situationer. De sociala medierna tenderar dock att rikta sig till en bredare publik i ja?mfo?relse med den interpersonella situationen.