Search for dissertations about: "Genusvetenskap"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word Genusvetenskap.
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1. "Other Guys Don't Hang Out Like This" : Gendered Friendship Politics Among Swedish, Middle-Class Men
University dissertation from Uppsala : Centrum för Genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitetAbstract : 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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2. On Men and Cars An Ethnographic Study of Gendered, Risky and Dangerous Relations
University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic PressAbstract : 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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3. Modern men A Norwegian 30-year longitudinal study of intergenerational transmission and social change
University dissertation from Örebro : Örebro universityAbstract : The dissertation addresses men and change, intergenerational transmission, historical change and agency, employing as a case a longitudinal follow-up study over two generations of men, where the fathers participated in an experimental research project, the Work-Sharing Couples Project, which aimed to promote egalitarian work–family adaptations in Norway in the early 1970s. The original project was based on both spouses working part-time and shift parenting. READ MORE
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4. Contentious countrysides social movements reworking and resisting public healthcare restructuring in rural Sweden
University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå universitetAbstract : The broader aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the production and reproduction of spatial inequalities following from the restructuring of the public healthcare system. More specifically, by analyzing the contention around healthcare restructuring related to two cases spanning a longer period in northern Sweden, I aim to investigate the changing conditions for healthcare provision in rural and sparsely populated areas, and I explore the forms of collective action that local people engage in to sustain the access to healthcare, as well as how state authorities’ attitudes towards such collective action have shifted. READ MORE
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5. Resisting feminised precarity Farm workers in post-strike Western Cape, South Africa
University dissertation from Stockholm : Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm UniversityAbstract : This dissertation seeks to contribute to the body of research on gender, neoliberal globalisation and work, and on the forms of resistance people engage in within a deeply unequal global order. It was devised in relation to developments during and after widespread, unprecedented labour and social protests among farm workers in export-oriented agriculture in the Western Cape, South Africa, 2012–2013. READ MORE
