Search for dissertations about: "gendered subjectivity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words gendered subjectivity.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Submitting to God: Women's islamization in urban Malaysia

   Author : Sylva Frisk; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Malaysia; Islam; religious practice; gender; agency; subjectivity;

   Abstract : This anthropological study addresses issues of subjectivity and agency within the context of pious, Muslim, Malay women's religious practice in urban Malaysia. It investigaes how Malay women come to understand themselves as gendered, religious subjects and, thereby, explores the motivations and meanings that women ascribe to their emergent roles in the religious sphere and within the Islamization process. READ MORE

5. 3. Material virtualities : Approaching online textual embodiment

   Author : Jenny Sunden; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Embodiment; body; cyberfeminism; cyborg; subjectivity; virtuality; materiality; MUD; MOO; cybercultural studies; digital textuality; online ethnography; poststructuralist literary theory; queer theory; online interaction; Diskursanalys; språksociologi; cyberspace; queerteori; virtuell verklighet; MUD; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : While the Internet is often presented as a disembodied medium, various forms of bodily presence are continually introduced when people meet online. This study explores notions of embodiment in a particular text-based virtual world (here called WaterMOO) by investigating how bodies- always sexually specific- are created and rendered meaningful in online textual practices. READ MORE

6. 4. Involved Parenthood : Everyday Lives of Swedish Middle-Class Families

   Author : Lucas Forsberg; Karin Aronsson; Helle Rydstrøm; Annette Lareau; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Childcare; family life; home-school relations; homework; household work; parenthood; subjectivity; gender; ethnography; video-based observations; Föräldraskap; familjeliv; hushållsarbete; barnomsorg; hem-skolarelationer; läxor; normer; subjektivitet; genus; etnografi; videoobservationer; Children; Barn;

   Abstract : The dissertation studies how 16 Swedish middle-class parents understand and form their parenthood in everyday life. The focus is set on how they involve themselves in their children’s care and education, and how parental identities are negotiated in relation to cultural norms on parenthood. READ MORE

7. 5. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'

   Author : Karin Sarsenov; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ryska språk och litteratur ; Russian language and literature; gendered subjectivity; love incantations; socialist realism; chthonic forces; leitmotif; alcoholic discourse; schizoid discourse; aberrant discourse; Russian women s literature; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : This doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the novel 'The Garden' (1997), by the Russian author Nina Sadur. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, it aims at providing a woman-authored text with the in-depth study the novel’s literary sophistication calls for. READ MORE