Search for dissertations about: "project woman"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words project woman.

  2. 1. The impact of health promotion on health in old age : results from community-based studies in rural Bangladesh

    Author : A K M Masud Rana; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Health promotion; older people; intervention study; community-based; rural; Bangladesh;

    Abstract : Background: It is common knowledge that Bangladesh has a high prevalence of illness among its older people and that the government healthcare services offer them inadequate support. Despite this, however, information about older people s health and illnesses as a function of health promotion is scant. READ MORE

  4. 2. "A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic" : Angela Carter and Surrealism

    Author : Anna Watz; Sara Danius; Stephen Donovan; Sarah Gamble; Lusty Natalya; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Angela Carter; surrealism; Xavière Gauthier; André Breton; feminism; avant-garde; psychoanalysis; eroticism; representations of women;

    Abstract : This study examines the intersection of surrealism and feminism in the writing of Angela Carter. Tracing the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by surrealist aesthetics and politics, it reveals the way in which her growing discontent with the movement’s gender politics gave critical content to her own feminist poetics. READ MORE

  5. 3. Predictors of bone fragility in older women. Associations in older women between risk medications and measurements of physical function, bone microstructure and fracture risk

    Author : Berit A M Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; osteoporosis; risk prediction; fracture; risk medication; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; statins; physical function; timed up and go; one leg standing test;

    Abstract : Bone fragility with fractures constitutes a growing public health concern, resulting in suffering and major health care cost. This thesis project has been carried out by means of studies based on the SUPERB cohort of 75–80-year-old women from Gothenburg. READ MORE

  6. 4. Trainee teacher identities in the discourses of physics teacher education : Going against the flow of university physics

    Author : Johanna Larsson; John Airey; Anna Danielsson; Eva Lundqvist; Maria Vetleseter Bøe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; physics; physics teacher education; preservice teacher training; professional identity; identity performances; femininities; discourse analysis; qualitative interviews; educational relevance; gender; Physics with specialization in Physics Education; Fysik med inriktning mot fysikens didaktik;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates what is involved in being recognized as a legitimate physics teacher-to-be in a Swedish physics teacher programme. Drawing on in-depth, qualitative interviews with 17 physics teacher educators and 17 trainee physics teachers, this thesis sees learning to become a physics teacher as a process of performing professional identities. READ MORE

  7. 5. Storming the Sadeian Citadel : Disturbing Gender in Angela Carter's Fiction of Transition

    Author : Margaret Benedikz; Sarah Gamble; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study demonstrates how Angela Carter’s textual contention with the works of the Marquis de Sade forms an interstice, chronologically, thematically and narratively, between the early and late works in Carter’s oeuvre. This period of fictional transition and unrest is exemplified byThe Sadeian phase in Carter’s writing can be seen as part of a feminist project. READ MORE