Search for dissertations about: "femininity"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the word femininity.

  2. 21. Chinese women and consumer culture : discourses on beauty and identity in advertising and women's magazines 1985-1995

    Author : Perry Johansson; Frank Dikötter; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; sinologi; Sinology;

    Abstract : Chinese women and consumer culture are studied through semiotics and discourse analysis of advertisements and beauty editorials from women's magazines. The trajectory of Chinese consumption and advertising development during the last two decades is outlined and the changing notions of female beauty after Mao is examined, describing the resurfacing gender differences and the renewed importance of body and gender, together with the commodification of women and female beauty. READ MORE

  4. 22. Shaped for beauty : Vocational and gendered subjectivities in private education for the beauty industry

    Author : Eleonor Bredlöv; Andreas Fejes; Susanne Köpsén; Elisabet Öhrn; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vocational Education and Training VET ; subjectivity; adult learning; power; gender; beauty industry; processes of becoming; caring knowledge; Yrkesutbildning; subjektivitet; vuxnas lärande; makt; genus; skönhetsindustrin; blivandeprocesser; omvårdnadskunskap;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to answer the question: How are vocational, gendered subjectivities produced in vocational education for the beauty industry? Drawing on Foucault and poststructural feminist theory, this question is answered in four papers, in which the material consists of beauty-school recruitment and marketing material, interviews with skin and spa therapy students and observations of practical skin and spa therapy training. These are educational arrangements that are closely bound to the economic sector of the beauty industry, and they have remained remarkably unexplored. READ MORE

  5. 23. Looking vanlig; neither too much nor too little : A study of consumption of clothing among mainstream youth in a Swedish small town

    Author : Emma Lindblad; Jacob Östberg; Klas Nyberg; Magdalena Petersson Mcintyre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Consumption; Denim; Mainstream; Subculture; Ordinary; Youth; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : This thesis studies consumption among young people who identify as mainstreamers in a Swedish small town. In order to map patterns of clothing consumption and to understand what was central in the young people’s self-identification, the research was conducted using a mix of ethnographic methods and wardrobe studies. READ MORE

  6. 24. Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities : Intersections of ’Race’, Gender and Sexuality in Swedish HIV/AIDS Policy

    Author : Anna Bredström; Erik Olsson; Johanna Esseveld; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HIV AIDS; policy; Sweden; racism; ethnicity; migration; gender; sexuality; intersectionality; sexual health; sexual education; safer sex; hiv aids; policy; Sverige; rasism; etnicitet; migration; genus; sexualitet; intersektionalitet; sexuell hälsa; sexualupplysning; säkrare sex; Ethnicity; Etnicitet;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the different depictions of ‘immigrants’ and the ways in which migration, ethnicity and racism have been handled by Swedish HIV/AIDS policy since the early 1980s. The dissertation consists of five separate articles and an introductory chapter that outlines the discourse-theoretical approach used in the subsequent articles. READ MORE

  7. 25. A Man of Power : Gender and HIV/AIDS in Zambia

    Author : Paul Dover; Sjaak van der Geest; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Zambia; Goba; gender; sexual and reproductive health; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the construction of masculinity and femininity in relation to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The ethnographic material is from fieldwork among the Goba people in a rural area in southern Zambia and two peri-urban communities near Lusaka. READ MORE