Search for dissertations about: "woman in africa"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words woman in africa.

  2. 1. "We are like Chameleons" : Changing Mediascapes, Cultural Identities and City Sisters in Dar es Salaam

    Author : Ylva Ekström; Lowe Hedman; Bodil Folke Frederiksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media; Popular Culture; Africa; Tanzania; Gender; Globalisation; Youth; Ethnography; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : The consequences of expanding mediascapes and processes of cultural globalisation during the early 21st century is the focus of this thesis. The author has conducted extensive field studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. READ MORE

  4. 2. Visibility at risk for women as rights-holders : a study with regard to a refugee camp context

    Author : Jenny Zetterqvist; Joakim Nergelius; Kerstin Nordlöf; Catharina Calleman; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women; rights-holder; human rights; CEDAW; gender-based violence; domestic violence; protracted refugee camp situations; local customary law tradition; East Africa; plural legal context;

    Abstract : By taking the recognition of persons as rights-holders in the framework of international human rights into account, this study directs its attention to women in protracted refugee situations, restricted to stay in camps also when their human rights are at risk due to various forms of violence. The question in focus is the following: To what extent may there be a risk that women in a refugee camp context, distinguished by a protracted refugee situation, do not become visible as rights-holders and entrusted to act with regard to international human rights and the problem of violence against women, especially domestic violence?The research process has taken the form of a continuous dialogue with the material for the study, a dialogue directing attention to material from an established international human rights system on one hand and material dealing with a local refugee camp context on the other. READ MORE

  5. 3. Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality

    Author : Annika Lindskog; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Africa; Malawi; Ethiopia; HIV AIDS; Inequality; Fertility; Mortality; Education; Within-household spillovers; Credit constraints; Diversification; Uncertainty; Redistribution; Fairness;

    Abstract : Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find a positive association between HIV infection and inequality at both the neighbourhood and district levels, but no effect of individual poverty. READ MORE

  6. 4. Women’s writing and political activism in the 1930s

    Author : Kristin Ewins; St Hilda’s College University of Oxford; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the formative relationship between the writing and political activism of leftist women writers in Britain in the 1930s. It is divided into three parts, structured around investigations of Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Storm Jameson. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

    Author : Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. READ MORE