Sökning: "change of woman identity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden change of woman identity.

1. 1. Multiple meanings of female initiation. "Circumcision" among Jola Women in Lower Casamance, Senegal

   Författare :Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Senegal; Lower Casamance; Kalounaye; Jola; initiation; female circumcision; genital cutting; identity; gender; moherhood; Islam; ethnicity; agency; social change;

   Sammanfattning : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices of female "circumcision" and initiation in relation to identity and social change in contemporary Muslim Jola society, Senegal, West Africa. During the 20th century, clitoridectomy spread - allegedly as part of Islam - and became essential for a Jola woman's identity as a "real" woman and mother, and an important aspect of the women's initiation ritual. LÄS MER

3. 2. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam

   Författare :Anna Månsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; person-centered ethnography; psychological anthropology; Muslims in the U.S.; Muslims in Sweden; Islam in the West; conversion narrative; conversion to Islam; Muslim identity; identity-making; cognitive models; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Sammanfattning : "Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. LÄS MER

4. 3. "Vi kristna unga qvinnor" : Askers Jungfruförening 1865–1903 – identitet och intersektionalitet

   Författare :Mats Larsson; Cecilia Wejryd; Oloph Bexell; Erik Sidenvall; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Asker; Maiden Association; Free Church History; Emancipation; Identity; Intersectionality; Gender; Christian Identity; Women History; Baptist; Holiness Movement; 19th Century; Asker; Jungfruförening; Frikyrkohistoria; Identitet; Intersektionalitet; Baptism; 1800-talet; Genus; Ungdom; Kvinnohistoria; Helgelseförbundet; Örebromissionen; Svenska baptistsamfundet; Kristen identitet; Emancipation; Demokrati; Church History; Kyrkohistoria;

   Sammanfattning : The Maiden Association in Asker was founded in 1865 20 kilometers southwest of Örebro in the county of Närke. A group of unmarried women closely connected to the Asker Baptist congregation met for prayer, bible reading and conversations with early democratic overtones. LÄS MER

5. 4. Intimitetens villkor : kön, sexualitet och berättelser om jaget

   Författare :Pia Lundahl; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; experience; cultural conceptions; normative order; sexual morality; norms; RFSU; sex drive; prison friendship; power; Queer Theory; lesbian; Homosexuality; heterosexuality; desire; identity; pleasure; subject; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the drawing of boundaries between normal and abnormal, between natural and unnatural. The aim is to show how the conditions for intimacy and hence also intimacy between women have changed in modern society, how sex and sexuality have been perceived, organized, and experienced in relation to historical and cultural circumstances. 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