Sökning: "narrative agency"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 80 avhandlingar innehållade orden narrative agency.
1. Girls on the Verge of Exploding? : Voices on Sexual Abuse, Agency and Sexuality at a Youth Detention Home
Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigates the dilemmas and difficulties the staff at a youth detention home encounter and struggle with when working with young women who are understood to be victims of sexual abuse. At the center of attention is talk about the problems of talking about sexual abuse and other difficult experiences. LÄS MER
2. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem
Sammanfattning : During the last thirty years, the Evangelical relationship with the State of Israel has drawn much academic and popular attention, particularly from historical, theological, and political perspectives. This dissertation engages with this literature but also complements it with an ethnographic account of the discursive practices of Evangelical Zionists through which, it is suggested, much of the religious significance of the contemporary state is being produced. LÄS MER
3. Diasporic Narratives of Sexuality : Identity Formation among Iranian- Swedish Women
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the sexuality of Iranian women living in Sweden. Considering sexuality as gendered and socio-culturally constructed, I examine the impact of Iranian Islamic discourses, contemporary socialization and migration on women’s narrations of sexuality. LÄS MER
4. Avslöjandets tid. Kvinnors bearbetning av sexuella övergrepp
Sammanfattning : In this thesis the aim is to explore how the phenomenon of working through child sexual abuse can be understood; its historical, discursive and social conditions and relations to gender and other power structures. The main study consists of 30 interviews conducted in 2003-2005 with eight women, 29 to 69 years old, representing three different social classes, all abused in childhood and all but one by their father. LÄS MER
5. Voices for Change : Hopes and costs for empowerment - a study on women's claims in the Egyptian revolution
Sammanfattning : This study investigates women’s possibilities to actively participate in societal change in Egypt. It aims at enhancing the understanding of structural conditions for women’s agency and how these enables and/or restrains women’s participation in the aspiration for societal change as well as their aspiration to live a ‘full life’. LÄS MER
