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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 104 avhandlingar innehållade orden Body ideal.
1. Möten med motstånd : kultur, klass, kropp på vårdcentralen
Sammanfattning : This dissertaton is about a health care centre in Malmö, Sweden, and how the personnel reacted towards and created an understanding of a specific group of patients. Focus is on the encounter between the staff and the patients, who visited the health care centre regularly due to bodily pain and feelings of anxiety and were described by the medical staff as troublesome, complicated and difficult to handle. LÄS MER
2. Antiken som ideal : Det antikiserande inredningsmåleriet och dess sociala funktioner i högreståndsmiljöer i Dalarna och Gästrikland 1791-1818
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on classical style wall painting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The study specifically involves the governor's official residence in Falun and nine manor houses in the Swedish provinces of Dalarna and Gästrikland, all of which were decorated in the classical style by local artist Johan Nils Asplind between 1791 and 1818. LÄS MER
3. Ideal och vardag : Inflytande och självbestämmande med personlig assistans
Sammanfattning : Personal assistance was introduced in 1994 as part of “LSS”, Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments. The intention of this assistance is to enable people with severe and extensive impairments to live a “normal life”. LÄS MER
4. Kraftkarlar och knockouts : Kraftsporter, kropp och klass i Sverige 1920–1960
Sammanfattning : The thesis analyses representations of body and class, and their wider ideological meaning, in Swedish power sports from 1920 to 1960. Boxing and weightlifting – sports dominated by manual workers – are chosen as study objects. The sources used are magazines connected to the power sports, and autobiographies by four prominent athletes. LÄS MER
5. Looking good : a study of gendered body ideals among young people
Sammanfattning : The main objective of this thesis is to study how social and cultural norms regarding body and appearance are perceived and interpreted by young people. This is done by studying both how these perceptions affect young people and how the body is controlled and altered through practices such as dieting, exercise, plastic surgery and the use of steroids. LÄS MER