Sökning: "ethics of honour"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden ethics of honour.
1. Heder på liv och död : Våldsamma berättelser om rykten, oskuld och heder
Sammanfattning : This dissertation discusses how reputation, virginity and honour are made topical in the stories of the lives of Arab and Kurdish women and connected with understandings of culture and religion. The dissertation is composed of five articles, which contain the principal analysis, and five chapters that discuss the project as a whole; the development of the main topics, and choices concerning methodological, ethical and theoretical approaches. LÄS MER
2. Dygdens förvandlingar : Begreppet dygd i tillfällestryck till handelsmän före 1780
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how the concept of virtue (dygd) is used in Swedish occasional poetry addressed to merchants before 1780. Occasional poetry was the major kind of literature in Sweden in the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, and usually addressed to the nobility and other dominant groups. LÄS MER
3. Muslimsk skola, svenska villkor. Konflikt, identitet & förhandling
Sammanfattning : The study is about a conflict concerning a Muslim Independent School in Jönköping. Based on fieldwork carried out on the Muslim Independent School and one of the local authority´s comprehensive schools - which included fifteen interviews and a comprehensive collection of newspaper articles and reports - I have problemised the relationship between the different groups in the local community and who had the preferential right of intepretation with regard to school, upbringing and values. LÄS MER
4. Duellanten och rättvisan : Duellbrott och synen på manlighet i stormaktsväldets slutskede
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines duelling crimes in Sweden during the first half of the 18th century. During this period such crimes could involve verbal insults concerning honour as well as duelling, resulting in death. LÄS MER
5. Såsom en slöja : Den kristna slöjan i en svensk kontext
Sammanfattning : This study takes its point of departure in the tradition of Christian women covering their hair for religious and cultural reasons, hereafter called veiling. The aim has been to investigate what ideas were projected onto the veil in Sweden during the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as when and how the tradition of veiling disappeared among most Christian Swedes. LÄS MER