Search for dissertations about: "gender popular culture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words gender popular culture.
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1. Skrubbsår : Berättelser om ur hiv föreställs och erfars i samtida Sverige
Abstract : Avhandlingen är en tvärvetenskaplig kulturstudie som utforskar föreställningar om och erfarenheter av hiv som kronisk sjukdom i Sverige under 2005–2014. Analysen av ett antal hiv-berättelser sker tillsammans med en teoretisk sammanflätning i form av den queera sårbarhetens och sjukdomens fenomenologi, samt genom de feministiska figurationerna hiv-tröskeln, skrubbsår, plåster och gruskorn. READ MORE
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2. Taking it as a Man? : Music, Youth, and Gender, Outside and Within Mainstream Media Cultures
Abstract : Since the establishment of the Internet as an aspect of everyday life in the Western world, popular culture has generated new prospects for artists and other cultural agents to disseminate their creative outcomes. This thesis focuses on the early years of the new millennium, a time of pessimism and conflict around file-sharing and other illegal activities, but also a time for renewed thinking and enthusiasm regarding the potential of the prospering information and communication age. READ MORE
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3. Undercover Operations in No-women's Land : The Swedish Armed Forces through a Gender Lens
Abstract : Since 1980, there are no formal restrictions for women to serve as officers wherever and in what positions they want to in the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). In this thesis, the author examines what has been achieved so far in terms of integration of women, what the situation of female officers is looking like today, and what impact their presence has had on the military organisation. READ MORE
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4. Hard & Soft : The Male Detective´s Body in Contemporary European Crime Fiction
Abstract : In the thesis popular culture is treated as an important site of meaningcreation and crime fiction is studied as a social technology, as producing and reproducing strategies of engendering.The thesis is a comparative study of six crime fiction detectives from fiveEuropean countries: Sweden, Finland, Scotland, Spain, and Italy. READ MORE
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5. "We are like Chameleons" : Changing Mediascapes, Cultural Identities and City Sisters in Dar es Salaam
Abstract : The consequences of expanding mediascapes and processes of cultural globalisation during the early 21st century is the focus of this thesis. The author has conducted extensive field studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. READ MORE