Sökning: "feminisation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet feminisation.
1. Gendered journalism cultures : strategies and tactics in the fields of journalism in Britain and Sweden
Sammanfattning : Avhandlingens syfte är att förstå journalistik genom att undersöka brittiska och svenska journalistikkulturer mellan 1989 och 2002. Fokus är lagt på om/skapandet av värdesystem och på maktkampers könade karaktär. LÄS MER
2. Behind the counter. Female inroads, obstacles and careers in the Swedish commercial bank sector, 1885-1937
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the feminisation of the Swedish commercial bank sector between 1885 and 1937, during which time the female labour share increased from 10 to 27 per cent. More specifically, it is examined why the banks hired women, and why they did not hire women to an even greater extent. LÄS MER
3. Resisting feminised precarity : Farm workers in post-strike Western Cape, South Africa
Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to contribute to the body of research on gender, neoliberal globalisation and work, and on the forms of resistance people engage in within a deeply unequal global order. It was devised in relation to developments during and after widespread, unprecedented labour and social protests among farm workers in export-oriented agriculture in the Western Cape, South Africa, 2012–2013. LÄS MER
4. Gender, Power and Post-Bureaucracy : Work Ideals in IT Consulting
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with work environments defined as post-bureaucratic, and which are characterised by individualisation and a decrease in the employer's formal control. The study shows how the employees in such work contexts are both empowered and disciplined. LÄS MER
5. The Female Reader at the Round Table : Religion and Women in Three Contemporary Arthurian Texts
Sammanfattning : Stretching back at least a thousand years, Arthurian literature constitutes a vigorous and varied genre that attracts scholarly attention. In a close reading of three modern Arthurian texts, Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), The Last Enchantment (1979), Marion Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon (1982), and Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, Taliesin (1987), Merlin (1988), Arthur (1989), Pendragon (1994), and Grail (1997), this study focuses on the intersection between two of the genre’s motifs: religion and gender. LÄS MER