Search for dissertations about: "women in war"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the words women in war.

  2. 21. Education, Labor Force Participation and Changing Fertility Patterns. A Study of Women and Socioeconomic Change in Twentieth Century Sweden

    Author : Maria Stanfors; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; longitudinal analysis; time series analysis; 20th century Sweden; compatibility; division of labor; gender; structural change; fertility; Education; labor force participation; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : This book deals with women and socioeconomic change in twentieth century Sweden. The main focus is on how women’s education and labor force participation have affected fertility over time. READ MORE

  4. 22. Women’s writing and political activism in the 1930s

    Author : Kristin Ewins; St Hilda’s College University of Oxford; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the formative relationship between the writing and political activism of leftist women writers in Britain in the 1930s. It is divided into three parts, structured around investigations of Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Storm Jameson. READ MORE

  5. 23. Studies on mental health in Kurdistan - Iran

    Author : Naser Mofidi; Lars Jacobsson; Mehdi Ghazinour; Itzhac Levav; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Kurdistan; Psychiatric epidemiology; General mental health; PTSD; Suicide;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to carry out an epidemiological study on mental health related issues in the Kurdish population of Iran. This part of Iran suffered directly during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Iran is an Islamic republic with strict adherence to Islamic traditions, which has implications for the way of life and gender issues. READ MORE

  6. 24. Normative Encounters between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’: : Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda

    Author : Jenny Lorentzen; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; norms; practice; discourse; gender; peace building; Mali; Rwanda;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the multiple and often overlapping encounters between ‘global’ and ‘local’ norms, actors, practices, and discourses which take place when norms travel between different socio-political contexts. This is done through a study of how global gender equality norms embedded in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda are promoted in two war to peace transitions: Mali and Rwanda. READ MORE

  7. 25. Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1879-1922

    Author : Lisbet Kickham; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; English language and literature; General and comparative literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : This thesis reviews a great number of novels by Anglo-Irish women novelists that - with few exceptions - have attracted little attention from contemporary and modern literary critics. My main focus is on the literature and its society. READ MORE