Sökning: "Gender roles"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 211 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gender roles.

1. 11. Gender discourses at work : export industry workers and construction workers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

   Författare :Gunilla Blomqvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; gender discourses; development studies; feminist research; export industry; construction industry; working conditions; Tamil Nadu; India;

   Sammanfattning : The worldwide relocation and globalisation of low-value production to countries where labour intensive production is profitable, has led to new patterns of work and mobility, especially for women. In India and Tamil Nadu, the strategies of economic liberalisation and export promotion during the recent decades have created a large export sector of garments and leather industries, which has attracted many women. LÄS MER

3. 12. Communicating, Negotiating and Stereotyping : The roles of context, situation and gender in small group decision-making

   Författare :Pär Löfstrand; Ingrid Zakrisson; Patrick Millet; Richard Ahlström; Ann Bergman; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Competition; Cooperation; Gender; Group Decision-Making; Stereotype Content Model;

   Sammanfattning : Making decisions together in groups takes an important role in society. Everywhere and in many different contexts people meet to make more or less formal decisions. As stereotypes constitute simplified group based perceptions of other people, decision-making groups risk making biased judgments and commit discriminating decisions. LÄS MER

4. 13. A Man of Power : Gender and HIV/AIDS in Zambia

   Författare :Paul Dover; Sjaak van der Geest; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Zambia; Goba; gender; sexual and reproductive health; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the construction of masculinity and femininity in relation to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The ethnographic material is from fieldwork among the Goba people in a rural area in southern Zambia and two peri-urban communities near Lusaka. LÄS MER

5. 14. Hushållspolitik : Konsumtion, kön och uppfostran i August Strindbergs Giftas

   Författare :Anna Cavallin; Ulf Olsson; Karin Hoff; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Household politics; domesticity; family; home; masculinity; femininity; gender; sexuality; heterosexual matrix; consumerism; consumer culture; education; discipline; August Strindberg; Giftas; 1880’s; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to read August Strindberg’s Giftas in relation to two strands: conduct books on one hand and consumer culture on the other, and to analyse representations of the presence of didactic, disciplinary subject positions as well as the presence of consumer culture, in relation to gender and exercise of power.In the thesis the concepts of consumption/consumerism, including transaction and exposition, are introduced and analysed, as well as the discussion around the status of marriage, and the debate about gender differences and power relations at the time of the publication of Giftas. LÄS MER

7. 15. Det svaga könet? : kön och vuxendödlighet i 1800-talets Sverige

   Författare :Sam Willner; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; alcohol; causes of death; gender; marital status; maternal mortality; sex differential mortality; 19th Century Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with mortality among adults in 19th century Sweden. Ever since the mid-eighteenth century there has been a pattern of excessive male mortality in practically all ages. The gap between the mortality curves of men and women have, however, varied greatly in time and space. LÄS MER