Sökning: "same-sex sexuality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden same-sex sexuality.
1. Becoming your own doctor. Healthcare-seeking, stigma, and related challenges among persons with same-sex sexuality in East Africa
Sammanfattning : The health among men and women with same-sex sexuality experience, i.e. attraction to and/or sexual relations with someone of the same sex, in Sub-Saharan Africa is an increasing public health concern. Prior research on men who have sex with men (MSM) has demonstrated that their healthcare utilisation is limited due to stigma and discrimination. LÄS MER
2. Liket i garderoben : En studie av sexualitet, livsstil och begravning
Sammanfattning : This thesis demonstrates and problematizes the work of the heteronormative surrounding the death of gay-identified men in Sweden in the 1980s. It does so by using the funeral as a lens through which to interrogate what happens when heteronormative institutions and cultural norms are confronted by gay deaths doubly stigmatised by the 'wrong' sexuality and Aids. LÄS MER
3. The Ambiguities of Recognition : Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India
Sammanfattning : What does recognition mean for people whose sexuality has for a long time been criminalised? Over the last years, the recognition of India’s queers has been the focus of numerous contestations as a result of the complex developments around Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises ‘carnal acts against the order of nature’. The Section had been partially repealed in 2009 by the Delhi High Court, only to be reinstated in full by the Supreme Court at the end of 2013. LÄS MER
4. THE WINDING ROAD TO WOMANHOOD. Adolescents? attitudes towards menstruation, womanhood and sexual health - observational and interventional studies
Sammanfattning : Menarche is a unique marker of female maturation representing the transition from childhood to womanhood. When entering adolescence, children face a number of challenges in areas such as the parent-adolescent relationship, development of the self and identity, an expanding network of social relationships, pubertal changes and the development of sexuality. LÄS MER
5. Brunetter och blondiner: om ungdom och sexualitet i det mångkulturella Sverige
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about adolescents and sexuality and has a special focus on girls living in multicultural contexts in Sweden. The study has two overall aims. The first is to explore eventual changes in young people's attitudes towards sexuality and relationships during the latter part of the 20th century. LÄS MER