Sökning: "feminist history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 81 avhandlingar innehållade orden feminist history.
1. Taming exotic beauties : Swedish hydropower constructions in Tanzania in the era of development assistance, 1960s-1990s
Sammanfattning : This study analyses the history of a large hydroelectric scheme – the Great Ruaha power project in Tanzania. The objective is to establish why and how this specific scheme came about, and as part of this to identify the key actors involved in the decision-making process, including the ideological contexts within which they acted. LÄS MER
2. "sätta flickan i stånd att fullgöra sina husliga plikter" : Fyra märkeskvinnor och flickors slöjdundervisning
Sammanfattning : "sätta flickan i stånd att fullgöra sina husliga plikter" Fyra märkeskvinnor och flickors slöjdundervisning. ("Fit the Girl for her Household Duties". Four Pioneer Women in Girls' Handicraft Education.)This dissertation deals with the development and establishment of girls' handicraft as a school subject in Sweden between 1880 and 1920. LÄS MER
3. Perplexities of the personal and the political : how women's liberation became women's human rights
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus is primarily on the uses of personal stories in activism at the intersections of politics and legal discourse. LÄS MER
4. Motsättningarnas marknad : Den pornografiska pressens kommersiella genombrott och regleringen av pornografi i Sverige 1950-1980
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the development towards a mass market pornographic press. Sweden (in addition to Denmark) is often described as a forerunner in this development when the so-called “porn wave” hit most of the Western world in the late 1960s. LÄS MER
5. Nationen på spel. Kropp, kön och svenskhet i populärpressens representationer av olympiska spel 1948-1972
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I study representations of summer and winter Olympic Games and Olympic athletes in six Swedish popular magazines 1948-1972. The purpose is to examine the forms of identity produced within the nation as an “imagined community”, in discursive processes where gender, sexuality, ”race”/ ethnicity, class and age/generation intersect and mutually construct each other. LÄS MER