Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på emneord "Gender"
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Aspirations & responsibilities. a qualitative study among female care workers in Khayelitsha
(Master thesis, 2011-03-07)In 1997 the South African Department of Social Welfare presented the White Paper for Social Welfare as a strategy to compensate for the apartheid regime's exclusion of the black majority for decades. In this document they ... -
Challenging Normativity: Emergent Socialities, Hope and Social Freedom
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Embedded movement: Senegalese transcontinental migration and gender identity
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Love and responsibility: an ethnography of masculinities and marriage in urban Egypt
(Master thesis, 2014-06-11)This thesis deals with masculinity in Cairo, Egypt. It argues that masculinity has an interactional basis, in the sense of G.H. Mead's theory of the self. (1934) The thesis is an ethnographic exploration of some interactional ... -
WHEN STUDENTS MAKE GENDER-UNTYPICAL EDUCATIONAL CHOICES: Women in Engineering and Men in Nursing.
(Master thesis, 2022-05-16)Both males and females face forms of gender stereotypes in their everyday lives, right from the workplace to homes. Gender stereotypes have also found their way into educational institutions of which universities are no ... -
"When you cannot do anything, that's the greatest problem in life" - Place and identity, power and agency among Karen refugees on the Thai-Burmese border
(Master thesis, 2010-06-17)In this thesis, identity formation processes among refugees from the ethnic group of Karen from Burma, in camps along the Thai-Burmese border are explored. Questions related to subjectivity formation are discussed, such ... -
Women and Family in contemporary urban China; Contested female individualisation
(Master thesis, 2013-12-15)This thesis describes the lived experience of women in their 20s and 30s in Beijing in 2012 with relation to their families. Family is applied in a broad sense, including both natal and marital families. Through this ... -
Women, work, and wages: How family policies continue to shape the gender wage gap
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Despite a dramatic convergence in the gender wage gap at the end of the 20th century, there has been a puzzling stability ever since. The thesis addresses this puzzling development by asking: How do family policies intended ...