Sökning: "women in power"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 380 avhandlingar innehållade orden women in power.

1. 1. Watching women, falling women : Power and dialogue in three novels by Margaret Atwood

   Författare :Katarina Gregersdotter; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Atwood; cyborg; dialogics; dualism; falling; femininity; feminism; friendship; gender studies; literature analysis; mobility; place; power; storytelling; watching; water; women;

   Sammanfattning : 　This study examines the three novelsCat s Eye, The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. It focuses on the female characters and their relationships to each other: Their friendships are formed in a patriarchally structured environment and are therefore arenas for defending and controlling the norms of such a structure. LÄS MER

3. 2. After idealism and difference : subjects of yellow feelings and sentimental narratives of migration

   Författare :Lan Kieu; Maria Carbin; Linda Berg; Lene Myong; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Idealism; difference; universality; ethics; ethnicity; love; migration; endurance; mimetic desire; monolingualism; power; gratitude; agency.; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Sammanfattning : After Idealism and Difference is a critical and ethical project of reading the postcolonial other. Taking a void from postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist critique, my thesis aims to deconstruct the privilege of the “marginalia” as the beloved object of feminist scholarship. LÄS MER

4. 3. Women in rural communities : Peasants, patriarchy and the local economy in Northeast France, 1650-1789

   Författare :Elise Dermineur; James Farr; USA Indiana West Lafayette Purdue University; []
   Nyckelord :Women; gender; peasants; early modern France; historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates gender relationships and the role of women in French rural society in the seventeenth and eighteenth century from two different perspectives—economic and socio-legal. I not only show female peasants’ social importance as I demonstrate that they had a prominent role not only within their respective households but also within their communities, but I also demonstrate that women were not as passive and submissive as the traditional historiography and common assumptions have asserted. LÄS MER

5. 4. Det osynliggjorda ledarskapet : Kvinnliga chefer i majoritet

   Författare :Klara Regnö; Anna Wahl; Anna Jónasdóttir; Karin Widerberg; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Managers; management; leadership; women-dominated organizations; gender; power; gender ordering; gender structuring; elderly-care; care for the disabled.; Chefer; ledarskap; kön; makt; kvinnodominerad verksamhet; omsorg; jämställdhet; mångfald; könsordnande; könsordning;

   Sammanfattning : This study focuses on women managers in women-dominated organisations. They are leaders in organisations where the majority of the managers as well as the employees are women. In Sweden today most women and men of working age carry out paid work. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

   Författare :Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. LÄS MER