Search for dissertations about: "female quest"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words female quest.

2. 1. Female Quest in Christina Stead's For Love Alone

   Author : Nilsson Mathilda; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; post-colonial journey; feminism; archetypes; intertextuality; Christina Stead; female quest; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : One of the conspicuously recurrent motifs in Christina Stead's novels is the quest. The present study centres on For Love Alone, the novel in which the prominence of this motif culminates in the depiction of Teresa Hawkins' successful quest, which contains both social and spiritual elements. READ MORE

4. 2. Characteristics of adolescent females with limited delinquency : Developmental challenges in relation to family, peers and education

   Author : Azadé Azad; Hanna Ginner Hau; Ann-Charlotte Smedler; Therése Skoog; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; female offenders; limited delinquency; adolescence; educational attainment; interpersonal relations; peers; family; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : Adolescence is a developmental period marked with several changes in a young person’s life. Most adolescents who commit crimes desist over time. Despite this, research has mainly focused on those with extensive and long-term delinquency, including mostly males. Young females with limited delinquency are thus an under-researched group. READ MORE

5. 3. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

   Author : Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

   Abstract : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. READ MORE

6. 4. Gender matters : understanding of access barriers to community-based tuberculosis care in Bangladesh

   Author : Fazlul Karim; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Community-based DOTS programme; Bangladesh; Gender; Delays; Stigma; Cultural epidemiology; Socio-economic divides; Smear-positive PTB prevalence;

   Abstract : Background: Females lesser use of TB control services is a grave concern worldwide, entailing more gender research in quest of practical remedies. Objective: To understand the gender differences in various clinical steps for TB care, explore gender-specific access barriers to TB control; and measure smear-positive PTB prevalence in different population groups of rural Bangladesh. READ MORE

7. 5. "We Are In-Between". : Health-seeking, Gender and Authority in a Charismatic Church in Mbeya, Tanzania

   Author : Lotta Gammelin; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; health-seeking; gender; health-seeking nomads; Faith-healing; Medical pluralism; authority; Pentecostal charismatic Christianity; spirit possession; agency; Spiritual warfare; suffering; motherhood; theological ethnography; Tanzania;

   Abstract : This study examines health-seeking, healing practices, gender and authority in a charismatic, locally founded church, the International Church for Healing and Glory (ICHG) in Mbeya, Tanzania. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2013 and 2014, it addresses the situation of people who resort to faith-healing in a medically pluralistic context. READ MORE