Search for dissertations about: "motherhood"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 72 swedish dissertations containing the word motherhood.

  2. 1. Accompanied by guilt : modern motherhood the Swedish way

    Author : Ylva Elvin-Nowak; Hanne Haavind; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Motherhood; guilt; responsibility; employment; gender-process; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : The general purpose of this dissertation was to shed light on employed mothers' everyday life experiences, especially their experiences of guilt in the interplay of family and employment. The project upon which the dissertation is based was designed within a social constructionist, gender-theoretical frame of reference. READ MORE

  4. 2. "Who Should Know but the Woman": Sexuality, Marriage and Motherhood in the Utopian Novels of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Author : Chloé Avril; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; utopia; feminism; sexuality; marriage; motherhood;

    Abstract : The revival of critical interest in the writings of the early twentieth-century American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman is linked to the emergence of a second wave of struggle for women's liberation in the 1960s and 70s. Before this, Gilman's work, in particular her short stories and novels, remained neglected or forgotten in the literary histories of modern American literature. READ MORE

  5. 3. Perceiving motherhood and fatherhood : Swedish working parents with young children

    Author : Clarissa Kugelberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; anthropology; Sweden; family; parenthood; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This book explores the way in which a group of parents of pre-school children construct the meaning of motherhood and fatherhood and cope with discourses that hold conflicting rules and value systems. Being a working parent today in Sweden entails moving between various domains. READ MORE

  6. 4. Thai Surrogate Mothers’ Experiences of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy : Navigating Local Morality and Global Markets

    Author : Elina Nilsson; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Jenny Björklund; Sharmila Rudrappa; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational commercial surrogacy; intimate labour; motherhood; gender; Thailand; precarity; local moral economies; kinship; family; merit making; assisted reproduction; bioavailability; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Abstract : Transnational commercial surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman gestates and delivers a child for intended parents from another country in exchange for money. This thesis explores the experiences of women who have acted as surrogate mothers in Thailand. READ MORE

  7. 5. Challenges of transnational parenthood : Exploring different perspectives of surrogacy in Sweden and India

    Author : Anna Arvidsson; Birgitta Essén; Sara Johnsdotter; Pernilla Ouis; Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Transnational surrogacy; Surrogacy; Assisted reproduction; Commissioning parents; Legal parenthood; Social workers; Exploitation; Surrogate; Motherhood; Kinship; Social constructionism; Reproductive Justice; Sweden; India; Assam; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

    Abstract : Transnational surrogacy challenges traditional norms of parenthood, especially motherhood; additionally, it is viewed as the exploitation of poor women. The overall aim of this thesis was to shed light on the consequences of an unregulated situation on surrogacy in the Swedish and Indian contexts, and to give different perspectives on surrogacy and the surrogate. READ MORE