Sökning: "modesty"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet modesty.
1. Den anspråksfulla blygsamheten. Auktoritet och genus i 1830-talets svenska romandebatt : Pretentious Modesty. Authority and gender in the Swedish debate on the novel in the 1830’s
Sammanfattning : The novel arrived late in Sweden. But during the 1830's things started to happen all att once. Fredrika Bremer publishes Teckningar utur hvardagslifvet 1828–31. Several writers follow in her footsteps and start to produce contemporary prose. LÄS MER
2. La Pudeur en Crise. Un aspect de l’accueil d’A la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust (1913-1930) : Modesty in Crisis. An Aspect of the Critical Reception of Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1930)
Sammanfattning : This study describes the moral debate which came about as a result of the publication of A la recherche du temps perdu in France. On several occasions, Marcel Proust himself suggested that this was a « highly indecent » work. It is the intent of this study to show what his contemporaries thought of the moral aspect of A la recherche. LÄS MER
3. Susceptibility to Violent Extremism : Integrating Personality and Social Psychological Factors
Sammanfattning : Violent extremism is a costly, global problem, yet research has yet to come to a consensus on the psychological underpinnings of violent extremism. The aim of this dissertation was to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the psychological underpinnings of violent extremism and group-based violence by (1): moving beyond the traditional focus on disadvantaged groups, Islamist extremism, and first-hand experience of victimisation or disadvantage; (2): moving past the long-standing person-situation dichotomy; and (3) attempting to integrate the role of personality and social psychological factors in susceptibility to violent extremism. LÄS MER
4. Sempronia's Song : Attitudes to Women's Music-making in Ancient Rome
Sammanfattning : This study explores attitudes towards women’s music-making in ancient Rome (c. 120 BC–130 AD), as expressed in love poetry, satire, letters, historiography, biography, rhetoric and philosophy. The texts are studied from an intersectional perspective considering gender, social status, age and ethnicity to explain various attitudes. LÄS MER
5. Gender discourses at work : export industry workers and construction workers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Sammanfattning : The worldwide relocation and globalisation of low-value production to countries where labour intensive production is profitable, has led to new patterns of work and mobility, especially for women. In India and Tamil Nadu, the strategies of economic liberalisation and export promotion during the recent decades have created a large export sector of garments and leather industries, which has attracted many women. LÄS MER
