Search for dissertations about: "gender divide"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words gender divide.
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1. Rethinking Son Preference : Gender, Population Dynamics and Social Change in the People’s Republic of China
Abstract : This dissertation explores how son preference is constructed and renegotiated in light of social change in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Based on secondary sources and interviews with women and men in rural Anhui Province as well as key informants, it addresses son preference from conceptual, methodological, empirical and ideological perspectives. READ MORE
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2. In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia. Cross-culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization
Abstract : This study emerges from the question: what is contemporary art, and mainly what criteria constitute contemporary art in a globalized art world in general? Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on the postcolonial context of Australia and the fact that the contemporary art scene in Australia is divided into Australian and Aboriginal art respectively. This is a division originating from the colonization of Australia that began in the 1770’s, resulting in an Australian art descending from a Western art practice, where there is further focus on two categories within this art. READ MORE
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3. Female employment, gender roles, and attitudes : The Baltic countries in a broader context
Abstract : This thesis consists of four constituent studies exploring several common themes: female participation in employment, normative assumptions regarding the proper roles of males and females, and social change. The underlying focus is gendered division of work, which is explored through the concept of family models. READ MORE
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4. Matters of Public Connection : The role of mediated and interpersonal communication in young people's environmental engagement
Abstract : What lies at the heart of environmental identity is the recognition of our interconnection with other people, living and not yet born, as well as nonhumans. To develop this sense of belonging, one needs to sustain public connection—a basic orientation to the public world where matters of shared concern are addressed. READ MORE
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5. Coming of Contraceptive Age: An Interdiciplinary Analysis of Hormonal Contraceptives and Mental Health
Abstract : This thesis emanates from the discursive gap between a medical discourse andexperience-driven knowledges in mental health aspects of hormonal contraceptives.The tensions and fractures between a medical discourse focusing on contraceptiveeffectiveness and largely refuting any significant adverse outcomes, and experiencebasednarratives of commonplace detrimental, or at least unwelcome and unpleasant,mental health effects, is apparent. READ MORE
