Search for dissertations about: "män"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 393 swedish dissertations containing the word män.
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1. Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship
Abstract : In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women’s unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men’s and women’s caregiving, using men’s caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men’s needs can be minimized. READ MORE
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2. "Other Guys Don't Hang Out Like This" : Gendered Friendship Politics Among Swedish, Middle-Class Men
Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of men’s friendships, in relation to gender, sexuality, power, masculine positions, feminisms and gender equality. The thesis draws upon in-depth interviews conducted individually and with pairs of men, between 25 and 49 years old, predominantly well-educated, white, straight and working white-collar or cultural jobs, twenty in total. READ MORE
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3. On Men and Cars : An Ethnographic Study of Gendered, Risky and Dangerous Relations
Abstract : It is well known that young men constitute a high-risk group in terms of accidents involving both themselves and others. But comparatively little is known about the roles of gender, masculinity and automobility in reproducing or subverting such particularly risky performances of identity. READ MORE
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4. Talking violence, constructing identities : young men in institutional care
Abstract : The aim of the study is to investigate how young men constructing identities in talk about their own use of violence. The study is based on a fieldwork at a youth detention home in Sweden. The data consists of individual interviews and video recordings of the treatment programme Aggression Replacement Training (ART). READ MORE
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5. Kvinnor och män märks : könsmärkning av arbete - en dold lärandeprocess = [Gendering of work and knowledge] : [sex-marking - a hidden learning-process]
Abstract : The object of this thesis has been to increase knowledge on how sex marking of job tasks and jobs is constructed, and, based on that knowledge, to find ways and means of reaching real equality between the sexes in the labour market. Different factors are identified whiich are at play in the creation of women's and men's jobs i.e. READ MORE