Search for dissertations about: "Feminist activism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Feminist activism.

  2. 1. Othering Processes in Feminist Teaching : A case study of an adult educational institution

    Author : Chia-Ling Yang; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; feminist methodology; feminist theory; liberal adult education; postcolonial theory; Swedish gender equality; welfare state; anti-racist education; feminist teaching; intersectionality; sexualized racism; gendered racism; boundary making; othering; difference;

    Abstract : Taking its starting point from a critical dialogue with feminist and postcolonial theory, this dissertation explores processes of othering in a feminist adult educational institution, Women’s Room, in Sweden. Women’s Room is a women-only school and half of the student body has a migrant background. READ MORE

  4. 2. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts

    Author : Redi Koobak; Nina Lykke; Cecilia Åsberg; Jackie Stacey; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender; postsocialist; feminist imaginaries; lag discourse; Western feminist theory; geopolitics; temporality; visual arts; self-portrait photography; sexuality; queer; Anna-Stina Treumund; Estonia; Genus; postsocialistisk; feministiska föreställningar; diskurs om eftersläpning; västerländsk feministisk teori; geopolitik; temporalitet; bildkonst; självporträtt; fotografi; sexualitet; queer; Anna-Stina Treumund; Estland.;

    Abstract : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. READ MORE

  5. 3. Women-to-women diplomacy : the pursuit of feminist peace in Georgia and Myanmar

    Author : Magda Cardenas; Elisabeth Olivius; Anna Jarstad; Marjaana Jauhola; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women’s activism; gender equality; feminist peace; agency; bottom-up peacebuilding; Georgia; Myanmar; women-to-women diplomacy; Kvinnors aktivism; jämställdhet; feministisk fred; fredsbyggande på gräsrotsnivå; Georgia; Myanmar; kvinnor-till-kvinnor diplomati; freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research;

    Abstract : Why and how do women engage in peacebuilding efforts across conflict divides? This dissertation coins a novel concept, women-to-women diplomacy – or W2WD – to explore women’s peace activism in Georgia and Myanmar. W2WD consists of three components: 1) the promotion of women’s agency as a key aspect of mobilisation and peacebuilding practices; 2) women’s own experiences of conflict as a basis for bridging divides; and 3) women’s visions of gender equality as a fundamental part of peace. READ MORE

  6. 4. Perplexities of the personal and the political : how women's liberation became women's human rights

    Author : Valgerdur Palmadottir; Sara Edenheim; Lena Eskilsson; Clare Hemmings; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Feminist theory; Women’s liberation; Human rights; Women’s rights; People’s tribunals; Consciousness raising; the personal is political; International feminist activism; Feminism; politisk teori; personligt och politiskt; privat och offentligt; politiska subjekt; mänskliga rättigheter; medvetandehöjande; folkliga tribunaler; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

    Abstract : In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus is primarily on the uses of personal stories in activism at the intersections of politics and legal discourse. READ MORE

  7. 5. Imagining Safe Space : The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography

    Author : Ingrid Ryberg; Anu Koivunen; Fanny Ambjörnsson; Patricia White; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pornography; Queer; feminist and lesbian activism; Interpretive community; Embodied spectatorship; Fantasy; Film production; distribution and reception; Intimate public; Counter public; Consciousness-raising; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : There is a current wave of interest in pornography as a vehicle for queer, feminist and lesbian activism. Examples include Dirty Diaries: Twelve Shorts of Feminist Porn (Engberg, Sweden, 2009), the Pornfilmfestival Berlin (2006-) and the members-only Club LASH in Stockholm (1995-). READ MORE