Sökning: "women’s subordination"
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11. Rethinking adequate housing for low-income women of the Global South : reflections on women initiated housing transformations to Masese Women Slum-Upgrading Housing Project, Jinja, Uganda
Sammanfattning : The global discourse on low-income housing promotes participation to provide slum dwellers of the Global South with adequate housing. Despite acknowledged women’s extra vulnerability to the substandard housing of slums, how their participation, or what design considerations support their housing adequacy, remains ambiguous. LÄS MER
12. Femininity at Work : Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
Sammanfattning : Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state. LÄS MER
13. Borgerlighetens döttrar och söner : Kvinnliga och manliga ideal bland läroverksungdomar, ca. 1880−1930
Sammanfattning : This study examines how Swedish upper secondary school youth constructed femininity and masculinity in the period 1880–1930. The overall intention of the dissertation is to analyse the gender ideals that are found in texts written by girls and boys in a bourgeois school environment during a period characterised by transformative social changes in society. LÄS MER
14. Till studiet av relationer mellan familj, ekonomi och stat : Grekland och Sverige
Sammanfattning : Within a loose framework of two ongoing and interrelated processes (globalisation and changing roles of the nation-state) family and relations between family, economy and state are studied in Greece and Sweden. Greece is in focus. Modernization, development and family in social science literature are discussed. LÄS MER
15. Stockholms tjenestepiker under industrialiseringen : tjenestepikeyrkets funksjon i individets livsløp og i en ekspanderende storby
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to analyse changes in Swedish society during the industrial era that affected the large group of women employed in households in the Swedish capital city, Stockholm. Previous studies have put focus upon the social aspects of this occupation, as well as upon less successful efforts to establish a union. LÄS MER
