Search for dissertations about: "gender relations in literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words gender relations in literature.

2. 1. Contextualizing Entrepreneurship and Gender : A Life-Story Approach to Rural Family Businesses in Sweden

   Author : Shqipe Gashi Nulleshi; Selcen Ozturkcan; Ethel Brundin; Deema Refai; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rural Entrepreneurship; Gender in Entrepreneurship; Context; Proximity; Agency; Emancipation; Rural Family Businesses; Life-story; Contextualizing; Business administration; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : Entrepreneurship has gained increasing attention as a strategic area for rural development. Addressing environmental, demographic, and gender inequality challenges in rural areas requires contextualizing entrepreneurship. READ MORE

4. 2. Intercultural communication in health care. Non-Swedish physicians in Sweden

   Author : Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; communication; culture; consultation; physician; patient; language; health care personnel; power; gender;

   Abstract : This thesis describes and analyzes intercultural communication between non-Swedish physicians and their Swedish patients, as well as communication between non-Swedish physicians and Swedish medical personnel. The focus is on the impact of cultural differences and the use of Swedish as a foreign language by physicians. READ MORE

5. 3. The Androgyne and the Phoenix : Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa: Gendering Early Modern Debates on Love

   Author : Johanna Vernqvist; Carin Franzén; Unn Falkeid; Gary Ferguson; Nancy Frelick; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Marguerite de Navarre; Gaspara Stampa; Early modern Literature; Love; Women writers; Neoplatonism; Androgyne; Phoenix; Love; Gender; Dialogues; Margareta av Navarra; Gaspara Stampa; tidigmodern litteratur; kärlek; kvinnliga författarskap; nyplatonism; androgynen; fenix; genus; dialog;

   Abstract : This study explores Marguerite de Navarre’s and Gaspara Stampa’s literary strategies through a close examination of their appropriation of Neoplatonic ideals of love and gender. Against a backdrop of the cultural and literary canon of the sixteenth century, and through a theoretical framework building on Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, it demonstrates how Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa destabilize power relations within the discourses of love and gender, thus gendering early modern debates on love. READ MORE

6. 4. Doing gender (in) equality in Swedish family farming : gendered labour and resources in agrarian change

   Author : Elias Andersson; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Economic and social conditions on Swedish farms have altered in recent decades, restructuring the sector, but the family farm is still the primary production unit. Sweden is often described as a role model in gender equality, but a gender-unequal situation in farming has been identified, posing a political challenge. READ MORE

7. 5. Dis-placed Desires : Space and Sexuality in South African Literature

   Author : Sanja Nivesjö; Stefan Helgesson; Ann-Sofie Lönngren; Ingo Berensmeyer; Andrew van der Vlies; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sexuality; space; place; queer theory; Sara Ahmed; Lefebvre; Foucault; South African literature; South Africa; Olive Schreiner; R. R. R. Dhlomo; Nadine Gordimer; J. M. Coetzee; Bessie Head; Phaswane Mpe; Damon Galgut; English; engelska; English;

   Abstract : This study provides a diachronic view of the interweaving of space and sexuality, their interdependency and mutually constitutive aspects, in seven South African English language novels from the early twentieth century until the first decade of the twenty-first century. A key contention is that it is precisely a co-constitutive depiction of space and sexuality that has arisen in this literature as a response to a socio-political climate which has exercised harsh regulation in these two areas. READ MORE