Sökning: "gender norms and ideologies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden gender norms and ideologies.
1. Who is Woman and Who is Man? : Normativity at Intersections of Gender and Sexual Orientation
Sammanfattning : Current gender norms predominantly construct gender as an expression of binary sex categories that are different but complementary. A performative view of gender instead analyses gender as an emergent feature of social interactions that is created by the constant repetition of acts in relation to discourses of gender. LÄS MER
2. Andlighetens ordning : En diskursiv läsning av tidskriften Pilgrim
Sammanfattning : This thesis takes as its point of departure the question "is there a connection between ordinary Swedish Christianity and the extreme forms of various examples?". As a way of concidering possible connections, a "normal" spiritual context in the Swedish setting is studied: the Christian magazine "Pilgrim. A magazine for spiritual guidance". LÄS MER
3. Gender dimensions in family life : a comparative study of structural constraints and power in Sweden and Japan
Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to analyze and compare women’s experiences, choices and practices in family life relative to men’s. The central questions addressed are: How does the gender structure in societies alter the gendered distribution of resources in society and the division of paid and unpaid work in families? What types of gender structures in societies allow women to exercise power in the family? Sweden and Japan are chosen as comparative cases since these two societies represent opposite ends of the spectrum of welfare regime typologies in terms of gender logics; one is based on equality and institutional individualization (Sweden), while the other is structured around gender difference, male breadwinner norms and policies to support them (Japan). LÄS MER
4. Is College Science Teaching Women's Work? : Gender Inequity in the Physical Sciences
Sammanfattning : After decades of virtual exclusion from participation in STEM, women have majored in, earned graduate degrees in, and forged careers in male-dominated fields such as the physical sciences in increasing numbers. At each step of the way, however, women’s participation diminishes, and this is especially apparent in the workforce. LÄS MER
5. Social Movements and Gender in Post-Soviet Russia. The Case of the Soldier's Mothers NGOs
Sammanfattning : This dissertation provides a study of gender processes in the maternal human rights movement of the Soldiers’ Mothers NGOs, which were created in the arena of the military draft politics in post-Soviet Russia. It also includes an analysis of the depoliticized and gendered civil society of the formalized NGOs, which provides a broader social context for the soldiers’ mothers’ movement. LÄS MER