Search for dissertations about: "swedish girls"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 239 swedish dissertations containing the words swedish girls.

  2. 1. Lena Cronqvist: Reflections of Girls

    Author : Katarina Wadstein MacLeod; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ambiguous bodies; memory; aggression; bathing; feminism and art; representation; painting; Lena Cronqvist; girls; narrative; Art history; Konsthistoria; Målarkonst – historia – Sverige – 1990-talet – sekelskiftet 2000 Flickor i konsten; Art;

    Abstract : The starting point for this PhD, is the large number of girls that opposed the common trend in which girls are represented as innocent, romantic and sexual. The aim of this study has been to provide the first piece of research ever on this body of work by the Swedish artist Lena Cronqvist (b. READ MORE

  4. 2. Disordered eating in a community sample of Swedish adolescent girls

    Author : Njördur Viborg; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; eating disorders; disordered eating; adolescent girls; longitudinal design; community sample;

    Abstract : Previous research has described that disordered eating (DE) is common in adolescents, especially in girls. DE is defined as maladaptive behaviours (e.g., vomiting) and negative attitudes toward eating and one’s body shape, appearance, and weight. READ MORE

  5. 3. Somali-Swedish Girls - The Construction of Childhood within Local and Transnational Spaces

    Author : Gunnel Mohme; Nihad Bunar; Kerstin von Brömssen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Somali diaspora; Somali-Swedish girls; Childhood sociology; School choice strategies; Muslim-profiled schools; Transnational social spaces; Transnational communities; Social constructionism; Duality of structure; Family Change Theory; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis explores diaspora experiences among Somali-Swedish parents and their daughters where the girls are enrolled in a Muslim-profiled school. The thesis uses migration theory with a transnational perspective, with findings that depart from the traditional view of migrants’ rootedness in a single country. READ MORE

  6. 4. Essays in Swedish Family Policy

    Author : Malin Tallås Ahlzén; Anne Boschini; Erik Lindqvist; Lisa Laun; Rita Ginja; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public economics; labor economics; gender; parental leave; quotas; childcare; cognitive development; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Parental Leave Quotas: Peer Effects and Workplace Related CostsIn this paper, I estimate whether the introduction and expansion of parental leave quotas in Sweden triggered spillovers at the workplace level. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that the introduction of the quota did not affect the uptake of parental leave of male coworkers. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Swedish Reflux Trial

    Author : Per Brandström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Vesicoureteral reflux; Urinary tract infection; Renal damage;

    Abstract : Background Small children with dilated vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) run risk of recurrent uri¬nary tract infections (UTI) and to acquire renal damage. To protect them, antibiotic prophylaxis and surgery to eliminate VUR have been used. READ MORE