Search for dissertations about: "women s right"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words women s right.

2. 1. My house is my husband - A Kenyan Study of Women´s Access to Land and Housing

   Author : Diana Lee-Smith; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Urban areas; Surveys; Social structure; Rural housing; Rural areas; Research; Legal aspects; Land use; Land ownership; Land acquisition; Kenya; Income distribution; Housing; Home ownership; Food; Firewood; Family; Domestic labour; Community organization; Data collecting; Urban housing; Urban powerty; Use of dwelling; Water; Women; Architecture; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

   Abstract : This thesis explores women’s access to property in Kenya. It consists of three parts. The first gives the Kenyan background, the theoretical and methodological approach. READ MORE

4. 2. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

   Author : Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. READ MORE

5. 3. Essays on Elite Networks in Sweden : Power, social integration, and informal contacts among political elites

   Author : Gergei Farkas; Jens Rydgren; Christofer Edling; Trygve Gulbrandsen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; elites; social networks; social capital; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to present work on a number of salient characteristics of elite relations in Sweden, studied from a social network analytic perspective. Elite integration, the distribution of elite power, and the significance of elites’ informal relations represent the three main themes explored in the original studies that comprise the thesis. READ MORE

6. 4. Menstrual status and long-term cardiovascular effects of intense exercise in top elite athlete women

   Author : Magnus Hagmar; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Elite athletes; female athlete triad; BMI; energy deficiency; amenorrhea; polycystic ovary syndrome; body composition; bone mineral density; postmenopausal women; endothelial function; athlete s heart; echocardiography; exercise test.;

   Abstract : Although physical exercise is generally beneficial for health, female athletes run an elevated risk of developing chronic energy deficiency, with ensuing severe consequences such as reproductive dysfunction, bone demineralization, more frequent injuries, impaired performance, and adverse cardiovascular effects. However, at present little is known about these issues with respect to sportswomen competing at the Olympic level, or about the long-term cardiovascular consequences of intense training for women. READ MORE

7. 5. Thoughts, emotions and experiences in two different generations of women undergoing cesarean section

   Author : Maria Sahlin; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: Giving birth is a major life event and the memories of the birth are often something that women carry with them for the rest of their lives. There can be a lot of emotions and fears tied to childbirth. Some women wish to avoid a vaginal delivery, while others are taken by surprise by how an emergency caesarean section affects them. READ MORE