Search for dissertations about: "masculine discourse"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words masculine discourse.

2. 1. Women and men in management : Stereotypes, evaluation and discourse

   Author : Hanna Li Kusterer; Henry Montgomery; Torun Lindholm; Marloes van Engen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; management; leadership; stereotypes; gender typing; liberal discourse; ideology; agency; communion; social roles; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : Very few women hold top corporate positions in Sweden, and women are underrepresented as managers in all work sectors. The present thesis examined stereotypes, perceptions and presuppositions about women, men and management with a combination of perspectives from social and organizational psychology, discourse analysis and gender in organization research. READ MORE

4. 2. "Democracy begins at home" : Utbildning om och för hemmet som medborgarfostran

   Author : Karin Hjälmeskog; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; democracy; gender equality; feminism; pragmatism; home economics; citizenship education; discourse; curriculum theory; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; Pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This thesis is intended as a contribution to a discussion about education, especially when related to democracy and gender equality, in other words citizenship education. A strategy for the inquiries is developed, termed a feminist pragmatist attitude. The focus is on thqualitative content of education i.e. READ MORE

5. 3. Skinny white bitches: Female sexual agency in contemporary advertising

   Author : Irina Balog; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Marketing; Advertising; Feminism; Gender; Female sexual agency; Midriff; Empowerment; Sexual Subjectification; Normativity; Male gaze; Discourse;

   Abstract : ABSTRACT This is a story about female representations in contemporary advertising. Following up on Rosalind Gill’s (2003; 2007; 2008) critical discussions on the shift in contemporary advertising from the sexual object to the sexual subject, this endeavour is about examining female sexual agency through updated versions of the midriff by including feminist consumer responses. READ MORE

6. 4. Black males and white masculinity in four Renaissance tragedies of blood

   Author : Anna Fåhraeus; Gunilla Florby; Georgia E. Brown; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : Renaissance; tragedies of blood; blackness; whiteness; masculinity; race; discourse; Faucoult; Koselleck; honour; ambition; sarcasm; drama;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to look at how the black North African man is repre-sented in relation to white men in four Renaissance tragedies of blood: Shake-speare?s Titus Andronicus, the multi-authored Lust?s Dominion, William Rowley?s All?s Lost by Lust, and Thomas Rawlins? The Rebellion. While previous studies have traced the most common racist tropes in 16th and 17th century lit-erature, such as the demonization trope and the animality trope (e. READ MORE

7. 5. American Warriors in Vietnam: Warrior Values and the Myth of the War Experience During the Vietnam War, 1965-1973

   Author : Sanimir Resic; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Myth of the War Experience; United States; warrior values; veteran discourse; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Vietnam; duty; honor; courage; masculinity; Warrior; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

   Abstract : In the Western world there has been a general consensus that in the aftermath of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, romanticized masculine images of war and soldiering have reached a turning point. This book challenges the view that the post- 1945 era has to a great extent been without romantizations of warriorhood. READ MORE