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In modern Finland, which is often referred to as one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, every girl and young woman has, in principle, an opportunity to education and employment and, thus, to social and economic independence (Julkunen, 2002). Backed up by significant changes in law, policy and rights for women, independence, choice and possibility increasingly characterize young women’s self-perceptions. Girls’ and young women’s relationships to family, friends, sexual partners, and their bodies seem far freer than for previous generations. At the same time, in the aftermath of a severe economic recession and a weakening of the welfare state in the 1990s, Finnish society became distinctly more polarized than before. Part of the population is now better off than ever before, while others have become permanently marginalized (Aaltonen and Honkatukia, 2002: 8; Kuure, 2001).
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Leppänen, S. (2008). Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for Interrogating Gender and Sexuality. In: Caldas-Coulthard, C.R., Iedema, R. (eds) Identity Trouble. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593329_9
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