Search for dissertations about: "woman marriage"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words woman marriage.

  2. 1. Woman battering as marital act : the construction of a violent marriage

    Author : Margareta Hydén; Stockholms universitet; []
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  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. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

    Author : Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. READ MORE

  6. 4. Vice in the Service of Virtue: John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

    Author : Lena Olsson; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bildungsroman; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Fanny Hill; eighteenth-century erotica; pornography and literature; John Cleland; Eighteenth-century fiction; the English novel in the eighteenth century; John Locke and literature; prostitution in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : Originally published in two volumes in 1748-9, John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or Fanny Hill) has long been an underground classic. Because of this underground status, and the prejudicial treatment of literary pornography, Memoirs has never been thoroughly investigated. READ MORE

  7. 5. Becoming a woman in silence : studies on preparedness for reproductive life of young women in Pakistan

    Author : Saima Hamid; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : sexuality;

    Abstract : Background: According to the cultural tradition in Pakistan, young women belonging to poor families should marry shortly after menarche. However, existing data show that young people, especially women, are not prepared for sexual life and have poor knowledge about sexuality and reproductive health. READ MORE