Search for dissertations about: "gender"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 2496 swedish dissertations containing the word gender.

  2. 11. FE/MALE asymmetries of gender and sexuality

    Author : Ann Kroon; Kaj Håkansson; Kerstin Sandell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; transsexualism; gender; sexuality; masculinity; femininity; asymmetries; gender order; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This thesis elicits logic of gender and sexuality from modern written material on psychiatric assessment of transsexualism in Sweden. Asymmetries of gender and sexuality with regard to females vs. males are analysed. READ MORE

  4. 12. Battling the "invisible nets" : gender in the fields of journalism in sub-Saharan Africa

    Author : Maria Zuiderveld; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; South Africa; Zambia; Uganda; Nigeria; Ethiopia; journalism; gender; logic; Bourdieu; intersectionality; South Africa; Zambia; Uganda; Nigeria; Ethiopia; journalism; gender logic; Bourdieu; intersectionality;

    Abstract : Battling the ‘invisible nets’ studies journalism as a gendered practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This thesis analyses the gender logic in the field of journalism by examining how structures of gender, class and race interact to create barriers and opportunities for black women journalists and media managers. READ MORE

  5. 13. Figuring Worlds; Imagining Paths : A Feminist Exploration of Identities in Higher Education Biology

    Author : Katerina Pia Günter; Annica Gullberg; Ingrid Ahnesjö; Karin S. Lindelöf; Maria Berge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Biology Education; Communities of Practice; Discourse Analysis; Feminist Science Studies; Figured Worlds; Gender; Higher Education; Science Education; Science Identity; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies; Pedagogik; Education; Biologi; Biology;

    Abstract : Higher education biology is a natural science discipline that is numerically female biased on undergraduate level across most international contexts. In Sweden, Germany, and the UK, for example, more than 60% of all undergraduate students are women. READ MORE

  6. 14. Thai Surrogate Mothers’ Experiences of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy : Navigating Local Morality and Global Markets

    Author : Elina Nilsson; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Jenny Björklund; Sharmila Rudrappa; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational commercial surrogacy; intimate labour; motherhood; gender; Thailand; precarity; local moral economies; kinship; family; merit making; assisted reproduction; bioavailability; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Abstract : Transnational commercial surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman gestates and delivers a child for intended parents from another country in exchange for money. This thesis explores the experiences of women who have acted as surrogate mothers in Thailand. READ MORE

  7. 15. “And I don’t know who we really are to each other” : Queers doing close relationships in Estonia

    Author : Raili Uibo; Ulrika Dahl; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; Ana Cristina Santos; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; queer; kinship; closeness; intimacy; care practices; Estonia; post-socialism; opacity; precarity; temporality.; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the ways in which queers understand and practice close relationships in the political, economic and cultural circumstances of contemporary Estonia. The study draws on qualitative methods from sociology and anthropology and is situated at the intersection of queer studies, de/post-colonial studies, family and kinship studies. READ MORE