Sökning: "women and work in the nineteenth century"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden women and work in the nineteenth century.

  1. 1. Flickor och pojkar i den sociala barnavården : Föreställningar om kön och sociala problem under 1900-talet

    Författare :Kerstin Hamreby; Eva Magnusson; Lennart Nygren; Ingrid Claezon; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social service; Body; boys; class; delinquent youth; gender; girls; young men; young women; social constructionism; social work; social research; unadjusted girls; Socialt arbete; Social work; Socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is girls and boys in the field of child welfare. The aim has been to trace and describe conceptions of gender, delinquency and social problems in child welfare from the end of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Ageing in a changing society : Elderly men and women in urban Sweden 1830-1930

    Författare :Ann-Kristin Högman; Lars-Göran Tedebrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; demography; family; gender; labour force participation; living arrangements; modernisation; Norrköping; old age; poor relief; Stockholm; Sundsvall; Older people and ageing; Äldre och åldrande; Social welfare social pedagogics; Social omsorg socialpedagogik; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; caring sciences in social sciences; omvårdnadsforskning med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the living conditions of aged men and women. By studying labour force participation, savings and pensions, the role of the family, and the extent of dependency of aged men and women from a gender and class perspective, continuities and changes between pre-industrial and industrial times are examined. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Victorian Governess Novel

    Författare :Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian governess; didactic fiction; education in literature; women and work in the nineteenth century; nineteenth-century English novel; marginalisation of women; female education in the nineteenth century; English language and literature; governesses in literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Den osunda staden : sociala skillnader i dödlighet i 1800-talets Sundsvall

    Författare :Sören Edvinsson; Lars-Göran Tedebrand; Gisli Gunnlaugsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mortality; social inequality; urban mortality; public health; Sundsvall; 19th Century; History; Historia; historia; History; folkhälsa; Public health;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the topic of social class and mortality. In particular, the analyses are concentrated on the question of how social differences developed in an era which was characterised by industrialisation, urbanisation and sanitary improvements. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Ansikte mot ansikte. Räddningsarbete bland prostituerade kvinnor i Sverige 1850-1920

    Författare :Anna Jansdotter; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; private space.; public space; difference; ideology; power; women; gender; conversion; revivalist movement; social work; rescue work; reform movement; prostitution; Sweden; 1850-1920; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this thesis is a Swedish religious reform movement that, from mid nineteenth century to early twentieth century, undertook social work intended to ‘rescue’ female prostitutes. The purpose of the study is to illuminate the encounter between two groups of women, the rescuers and the rescued. LÄS MER