Sökning: "Academic Women"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 74 avhandlingar innehållade orden Academic Women.

1. 1. "Women", welfare, textual politics and critique : different categories of "women", the making of welfare states and emancipation in a Nordic welfare state context

   Författare :Mona Livholts; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Academic social work; social categorisation; marginalisation; different categories of women; feminism; the Nordic women-friendly welfare states; emancipation; social construc¬tionism; discourse analysis; individual memory work; academic writing; forms of knowledge; critique; social change; Social work; Gender studies;

   Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of this thesis is to analyse and interpret the relationship between the social construction of different categories of 'women' and the making of welfare states in specific mo­ments of textual politics in a Nordic welfare state context. Furthermore, the aim is to develop a methodology for critical self-reflection in the process Of producing academic knowledge. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

   Författare :Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. LÄS MER

4. 3. Vitamin D In Older Women - Fractures, Frailty and Mortality

   Författare :David Buchebner; Ortopedi - klinisk och molekylär osteoporosforskning; []
   Nyckelord :Vitamin D; Women; Fracture; Frailty; Mortality;

   Sammanfattning : Vitamin D (25OHD) is essential for maintaining calcium homeostasis and inadequate levels have been associated with negative musculoskeletal as well as extraskeletal effects. Individuals at especially high risk of developing hypovitaminosis D are the elderly. LÄS MER

5. 4. Women and Biological Research Careers in Higher Education in Mozambique : A Case Study of Two Public Universities

   Författare :Juvencio Manuel Nota; Gabriele Griffin; Anita Hussénius; Louise Morley; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :women; biological research careers; higher education; institutional ethnography; inequality regimes; Gender Studies; Genusvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The issue of women’s experiences in biological research careers in academia in Mozambique is under-researched. This lack of knowledge does not enable the country to design structural tools that can help women to overcome the obstacles and challenges they face and hence boost their career progression in academia. LÄS MER

7. 5. Som isolerade öar : De lagerkransade kvinnorna och akademin under 1900-talets första hälft

   Författare :Hanna Markusson Winkvist; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Swedish Modern History; University History; Gender History; Academic Women; Female Post-Graduates; Academic Labor Market; Gender and Academia; “Frozen Ideology” [frusen ideologi]; Identity; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is, from a gender perspective, to illuminate and analyze the position of female post-graduates, within and in relation to the male dominated state universities and private university colleges in Sweden during 1883-1949. Hence, this is the telling of the story of a minority within a majority, with an emphasis on the analysis of different perceptions of this elite. LÄS MER