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6. Gender equality and health experiences : workplace patterns in Northern Sweden
Sammanfattning : Gendered practices of working life create gender inequalities through horizontal and vertical gender segregation in work, which may lead to gender inequalities in health experiences. The workplace is an important part of the social circumstances under which health opportunities and constraints are shaped. LÄS MER
7. Skapa rum. Ung femininitet, kroppslighet och psykisk ohälsa : genusmedveten hälsofrämjande intervention
Sammanfattning : Mental health problems among young people, girls and young women in particular, are a serious public health problem. Gendered patterns of mental illness are seen in conjunction with stress-related problems such as anxiety, depression, and psychosomatic complaints. LÄS MER
8. On Men and Cars : An Ethnographic Study of Gendered, Risky and Dangerous Relations
Sammanfattning : It is well known that young men constitute a high-risk group in terms of accidents involving both themselves and others. But comparatively little is known about the roles of gender, masculinity and automobility in reproducing or subverting such particularly risky performances of identity. LÄS MER
9. Claiming Space: Discourses on Gender, Popular Music, and Social Change
Sammanfattning : This compilation (portfolio) thesis explores how language is used in the context of gender-equity music initiatives to construct ideas about gender, popular music, and social change. More specifically, it examines the use of spatial metaphors and concepts revolving round the idea that girls and women need to “claim space” to participate in popular music practices. LÄS MER
10. Soviet People with Female Bodies : Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s
Sammanfattning : The everyday practices of maternity and beauty are important for the enactment of femininity. This dissertation deals with femininities created in the context of changing ideas about “normality” in Soviet Russia during the mid 1930s-1960s and explores a diversity of norms, discourses and rituals. LÄS MER