Search for dissertations about: "Gender"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 2496 swedish dissertations containing the word Gender.

2. 21. Gender equality and health experiences : workplace patterns in Northern Sweden

   Author : Sofia Elwér; Anne Hammarström; Annika Härenstam; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; gender equality; workplace; health experiences; focus groups; cluster analysis; gender; work environment; gender regimes; folkhälsa; Public health;

   Abstract : Gendered practices of working life create gender inequalities through horizontal and vertical gender segregation in work, which may lead to gender inequalities in health experiences. The workplace is an important part of the social circumstances under which health opportunities and constraints are shaped. READ MORE

4. 22. “I am solely a professional – neutral and genderless” : on gender bias and gender awareness in the medical profession

   Author : Gunilla Risberg; Toine Lagro-Janssen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : Gender; gender bias; gender awareness; physicians; clinical decision-making; research evaluation; medical education; medical teachers; tutors; division of labour; hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; health services research;

   Abstract : Aim: During the last decades research has reported seemingly unjustified differences between how women and men are perceived as patients, medical students and physicians. Most studies have been performed outside Scandinavia. READ MORE

5. 23. Gender Matters : Differences and change in disability and health among our oldest women and men

   Author : Pär Schön; Marti G. Parker; Mats Thorslund; Boo Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; oldest old; gender differences; health trends; disability; care utilization; healthy life expectancy; Sweden; Social work; Socialt arbete; Social Work; socialt arbete;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates gender differences in health and how they have changed between 1992 and 2002 among very old people. It explores gender differences in the association between disability and health, and gender differences in care utilization among our oldest old people. READ MORE

6. 24. Outsiders and Others : Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse

   Author : Oscar von Seth; Claudia Lindén; Jack Halberstam; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermann Hesse; Peter Camenzind; Der Steppenwolf; outsiderness; otherness; queer friendship; homoeroticism; nonconformism; homosexuality; bisexuality; Bildungsroman; romantic friendship; heterosexual ambivalence; disability; animality; gender; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores how characters who embody outsiderness and/or otherness intersect with and connote queerness—such as, for instance, homoeroticism and nonconformism—in the novels Peter Camenzind (1904) and Der Steppenwolf (1927) by German-language author Hermann Hesse (1877–1962).In most of Hesse’s novels, the narrative revolves around a male protagonist who is characterized as an outsider. READ MORE

7. 25. Feminism and the Academy : Exploring the Politics of Institutionalization in Gender Studies in Sweden

   Author : Mia Liinason; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; feminism; Academy; gender; hegemony; institutionalization; Women s Gender Feminist Studies; transformation; knowledge production; interdisciplinarity;

   Abstract : The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the process of institutionalization and neo-/interdisciplinarization in Women’s/Gender/Feminist Studies (WGFS) in Sweden, and the construction of feminist knowledge within this process. Furthermore, the thesis aims to contribute to the feminist debates on academic feminism as a transformative project. READ MORE