Sökning: "femininity at work"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 42 avhandlingar innehållade orden femininity at work.
1. Femininity at Work : Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
Sammanfattning : Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state. LÄS MER
2. Skapande av femininitet : Om kvinnor i missbrukarbehandling
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about women in drug abuse treatment and their descriptions of themselves as women - their process of becoming feminine. The aim of the thesis is describing and trying to understand the meaning of the treatment in the women's femininity processes and what significance drugs, alcohol, men, the own body, motherhood, and sexuality have and have had in the process. LÄS MER
3. I viljan att göra det normala : En kritisk studie av genusperspektivet i missbrukarvården
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to use intersectional analysis to investigate how gender is made in drug abuse treatment and to examine how the formation of gender interplays with the formation of sexuality, class and ethnicity. Central questions are: What gender(s) are to be shaped in druge abuse treatment? What happens to a gender perspective with emancipatory ambitions when it is incorporated into a normalizing practice such as social work? Quantitative methods are used to answer these questions. LÄS MER
4. Vardagens könsinnebörder under förhandling : om arbete, familj och produktion av kvinnlighet
Sammanfattning : The subject of this study was Swedish women's experiences of their everyday lives as lived between the demands of work and family. Twenty female civil servants were interviewed six times each over a three and a half year period when their work places underwent organizational changes. LÄS MER
5. Betydelsen av kön och hudfärg i äldreboendets vardag under olika organisatoriska villkor
Sammanfattning : Even though nursing home care in Sweden and Canada takes place in different care contexts and utilizes different organisational models, in both countries, the traditional image of an ideal care worker is characterized by femininity and whiteness. However, today, in both countries, the care workforce is becoming far more diverse, with increasing numbers of white men, and non-white women and men. LÄS MER
