Search for dissertations about: "Mary Last"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Mary Last.

2. 1. Candies in hell : research and action on domestic violence against women in Nicaragua

   Author : Mary Carroll Ellsberg; Jaquelyn C. Campbell; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; domestic violence; partner abuse; Nicaragua;

   Abstract : The overall aim of the research was to explore the magnitude and characteristics of domestic violence against women in Leon, Nicaragua. A cross-sectional survey was carried out among a representative sample of 488 women between the ages of 15-49 years. In-depth interviews were performed with women who had experienced violence. READ MORE

4. 2. Pollen productivity estimates and pollen-based reconstructions of Holocene vegetation cover in Northern and temperate China for climate modelling

   Author : Furong Li; Marie-José Gaillard; Mary E. Edwards; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; climate; pollen-vegetation relationships; relative pollen productivity; REVEALS model; anthropogenic land-cover change; Holocene; China; Paleoecology; Paleoekologi;

   Abstract : Model projections of future climate change require that coupled climate-vegetation models are developed and validated, i.e. these models should be able to reproduce past climate and vegetation change. Records of pollen deposited in lake bottoms and peat bogs can provide the information needed to validate these models. READ MORE

5. 3. The Female Reader at the Round Table : Religion and Women in Three Contemporary Arthurian Texts

   Author : Kristina Hildebrand; Elizabeth Sklar; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; religion; women; gender; Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mary Stewart; Stephen R. Lawhead; reader response; feminism; Arthurian; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : Stretching back at least a thousand years, Arthurian literature constitutes a vigorous and varied genre that attracts scholarly attention. In a close reading of three modern Arthurian texts, Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), The Last Enchantment (1979), Marion Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon (1982), and Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, Taliesin (1987), Merlin (1988), Arthur (1989), Pendragon (1994), and Grail (1997), this study focuses on the intersection between two of the genre’s motifs: religion and gender. READ MORE

6. 4. The Old World Journey : National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973

   Author : Eva Zetterberg Pettersson; Elisabeth Herion-Sarafidis; Rolf Lundén; Fredrik Christian Brögger; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Erica Jong; William Styron; Mary McCarthy; John A. Williams; Birds of America; Fear of Flying; Set This House on Fire; The Man Who Cried I Am; international novel; journey narrative; European journey; nationalism; national identity; Old World; Europe ; America ; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket;

   Abstract : A commonly held assumption among literary critics is that the motif of the European journey is exhausted in American literature in the post-World-War-II period. Challenging this view, the present study claims that the Old World journey narrative lives on, but in new guises, and that it continues to be a forum for the discussion of American national identity. READ MORE

7. 5. The Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island : The End of a Tradition

   Author : Kristian Pella; Lena Roos; Kentaro Miyazaki; Mark Teuween; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Acculturation; Christianity; folk religion; gozensama; Ikitsuki; Japan; Kakure; Kakure Kirishitan; Kirishitan; Kirishitanism; Maria-Kannon; Senpuku; syncretism; tradition; tsumoto; underground Christian; Virgin Mary; Xavier.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : The organization of the Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island remained relatively intact until the end of the 1990s. Today it seems that this tradition is approaching its end. The Kakure Kirishitan have become a rapidly vanishing minority since much of the organized activities on the island have ceased to take place during the last decade. READ MORE