Sökning: "Gender culture"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 336 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gender culture.
1. En fiende till civilisationen : manlighet, genusrelationer, sexualitet och rasstereotyper i svensk filmkultur under 1920-talet
Sammanfattning : The setting for this study is Swedish film culture of the 1920s, which has been studied with a focus on representations of masculinity and gender relations according to four themes: 1) children and youth 2) fatherhood and love 3) sexuality and popularity 4) ethnicity and racial stereotyping. The rise of new consumer culture in the first decades of the 20th century created turmoil between traditional and modern values, not least when it came to conceptions of gender. LÄS MER
2. Allt annat än allvar : den komiska kvinnliga grotesken i svensk samtida skrattkultur
Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen tar avstamp i ett möte mellan å ena sidan Michail Bachtins begrepp skrattkultur och hans positiva och uppvärderande framställning av grotesk estetik, och å andra sidan feministisk och queer teoribildning. Avhandlingen utgör en tvärvetenskaplig kulturstudie av svensk samtida skrattkultur, Mer specifikt fokuseras framställningar av kön, kropp och sexualitet. LÄS MER
3. Högt och lågt : Smak och stil i ungdomskulturen
Sammanfattning : The thesis contributes to the understanding of modern youth cultures. The study consists of three parts. The first part explores the development of youth culture research. In the second part a theoretical perspective is developed on taste and style that can be applied to contemporary youth cultures. LÄS MER
4. Moving thresholds : body narratives within the vicinity of gym and fitness culture
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates thresholds that impede bodies from moving to, and within, gym and fitness sites. Thresholds are here understood as gendered social constructs and norms, which direct bodies in certain ways, and thus circumscribing potential movements and capabilities. LÄS MER
5. Culture and Capacity : Drought and Gender Differentiated Vulnerability of Rural Poor in Nicaragua, 1970-2010
Sammanfattning : This dissertation interprets gender-differentiated vulnerability to drought within a rural community located in the dry zone, la zona seca, of Nicaragua, a region that has been identified by the government and NGO sector as suffering from prolonged and, since the 1970s, more frequent droughts. A combination of gender, capitals, and vulnerability demonstrates the value in using a multidimensional perspective to look at the socioeconomic and cultural contexts that form the capacity individuals have had to reduce their long-term vulnerability to drought in Nicaragua. LÄS MER