Invandrade kvinnor i Handels. Föreställningar om arbetskraftsinvandrade kvinnor i Handelsnytt 1961-1976. (Immigrant women in Handels. Conceptions of labour immigrated women in Handelsnytt 1961-1976).The primary purpose of this thesis is to analyze the written conceptions of labour immigrated women in Handelsnytt, a Swedish Trade Union magazine. The analyses of the conceptions are based on theoretical categories of class, gender and ethnicity.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine how the images of librarians are conceived and held by the public. It has often been claimed that librarians are subject to widely spread negative stereotyping. My purpose is to study the nature and origin of these stereotypes. Since popular media is one source of these stereotypes and images I have chosen to look into how librarians are characterized in 20 Swedish novels written between 1982-2002. The questions this thesis aims to answer are: What images of librarians occur in the novels? How are the tasks of the librarians respectively described in the novels? How are female and male librarians respectively described? The analysis of the novels is then compared with interviews with three professional librarians about their view of their professional role and their perceptions of its status and image.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka representationen av HBTQ-personer i kristna nyhetstidningar i Sverige. Frågeställningen innefattar hur dessa representeras, vilka som representerar dem och hur representationen förhåller sig till Rainer Forsts toleranskriterier. Materialet består av opinionsmaterial från Kyrkans Tidning, Dagen och Världen Idag, och i analysen behandlas artiklar från år 2009 och 2014. För att undersöka representationen har jag har gjort en kritisk diskursanalys utifrån Fairclough. Jag har även lyft in teorier om stereotypisering av Stuart Hall och Richard Dyer, representation av HBTQ-personer av Shiri Eisner och könsnormer av Judith Butler.

When gender-related refugee claims was ratified in the Swedish asylum law the 31 of March this year (2006) it opened the door for women with this specific refugee status to receive asylum in Sweden. The aim of this thesis has been to investigate how these specific female refugees are represented and described in the asylum process. The focus has been the construction of identity concerning these women in the Officials discourse at the Immigration department. The theoretical framework has been a critical discourse analysis regarding the exercise of power and dominance connected to the construction of identity.An understanding of the women with gender-related refugee claims as the Others has been perceived through the Officials discourse. Female refugees which have been exposed to persecution that occur in our part of the world (rape, wife abuse, etc.) are treated differently and much more restrictive, compared to women exposed to so called culture specific oppression (e.g.

The aim of this essay is, with reference to a close study on the negotiation delegations of the Tenant Association, to examine the principals of democracy in relation to distribution of power and participation, efficiency and professionalism. This is done with the intention to understand the Tenant Association's view on its own commission as negotiator, according to democracy. The investigation is carried out on the Tenant Association in the Swedish cities of Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenborg.The data acquisition was obtained by using a questionnaire and through interviews with representatives from the Tenant Association negotiation delegation.A central conclusion from this investigation is that the representatives of the Tenant Association generally are satisfied with the democracy model used in the organisation, despite awareness of the fact that there are some failures with representation amongst younger people, women and immigrants. Also, they suggest that the model with representative democracy is by all means the most useful because of its arrangement and efficiency in decision making processes.The policies of the Tenant Association, considering distribution of power and participation between elected representatives and employees, are legitimated by the negotiation delegates. However, there is obvious discrepancy in the look upon their respective tasks between the delegates and the chief negotiators.One can recognise the development of democracy that is called New Public Management in this survey.

The purpose of this thesis was to study how four swedish lifestyle magazines: Veckorevyn and Cosmopolitan for women, King and Café for men, represent three groups of people and how often these people appear in the magazines. These groups are HBT, homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals, disabled and immigrants. The years we studied were 2007 and 2008.Our main questions were: How often do the three groups appear in the four magazines? How are the groups represented? In order to answer these questions we used a qualitative analysis. We used tools from semiotics, narratology and discourse.

The purpose of this paper is to examine how gender in Islam and Hinduism are described in textbooks for high school. The study was conducted using a qualitative content analysis and also using a feminist gender theory and postcolonial feminist theory. All textbooks are written or revised after 2011 when The Swedish National Agency for Educations? new curriculum came into force. Previous research in this area shows that it is most common that gender is treated in isolated parts within the chapters, but that there are textbooks that allows the gender perspective permeate the entire text.

The aim of this study is to examine how the Swedish writer Aurora Ljungstedt describes relations and desire in her En jägares historier, and what political message she tries to send her audience through that description.I have applied Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?s theory of erotic triangles to the relationships in En jägares historier and found that they are structured in the way Sedgwick describes. The structure works to uphold and, when needed, re-establish patriarchal order in the book. Most female characters in En jägares historier are ? also in line with Sedgwick?s theory ? no more than articles of trade between men.

The subject of my thesis is what I have chosen to call the ?action babe cinema? of the 21st century, essentially action-movies featuring a female heroine in the lead role. Inspired by the theories of Vladímir Propp, author of Morphology of the Folktale, I have tried to reveal the underlying structure of these films. I have chosen eleven films which form my material, and from these extracted a number of functions (which means the actions of a character), that reoccur frequently. The heroines? transformation can be seen as a central theme of the action babe cinema, and I have divided the films into two groups depending on the course of the transformation, either from soft to hard or the other way around.

AbstractINSTITUTION:                                        Institutionen för kulturvetenskap LinnéuniversitetetADRESS:                                                  351 95 VäxjöTELEFON:                                                0470-70 80 00HANDLEDARE:                                       Hans T SternuddTITEL:                                                      Den inramade kvinnan och den gränslösa ?kvinnan? ? olika läsningar av en konstbild.ENGELSK TITEL:                                    The framed woman and the limitless ?woman? ? different readings of a pictureFÖRFATTARE:                                        Ewa BladhADRESS:                                                  Parkgatan 16                                                                 360 42 BraåsTYP AV UPPSATS:                                 C-uppsatsVENTILERINGSTERMIN:                      Ht 2009 Uppsatsen syfte är att se hur olika läsningar av en konstbild påverkar bilden av den representerade kvinnan. I uppsatsen tolkas bilden utifrån tre olika läsningar, för att se hur bilden av den representerade kvinnan ändras och vad det kan ha för betydelse. De olika läsningarna har sin utgångspunkt i olika genusteorier, därefter jämförs analyserna med varandra, samt diskuteras utifrån syftet och frågeställningarna. Här relateras teori och material till varandra. Uppsatsen argumenterar för att ett queerperspektiv öppnar upp för fler tolkningsmöjligheter, genom att det uppmanar oss att tänka bortom uppdelningar och gränsdragningar. Performativitet är en bättre utgångspunkt för analysen av bilder där kvinnor är representerade, eftersom den kan möjliggöra en identifikation över genus- och sexualitetsgränser. Keyword: feministisk konstteori, genus, performativitet, queerteori, representation,.

This study aims to examine attitudes and conceptions of staff who work with mentally disabled persons, concerning normalization and gender. Six qualitative interviews with such professionals were performed and subsequently analyzed. Since the method of this study is qualitative, no claim of generalizability is made. The interview material has been categorized into themes by means of coding. The result of the study is presented according to those themes.

Studiens syfte var att utifrån ett designteoretiskt multimodalt perspektiv belysa relationen mellan å ena sidan, den kommunikativa praktiken under en skolvisning av en museiutställning och å andra sidan elevers möjligheter till deltagande och lärande. I studien användes multimodal metod för konstruktion av data; deltagande observation med fotografi, självrapportering med bilder och fokusgruppintervju. 20 elever ur en åk 5 klass deltog i studien. I resultat och studiens slutsatser framkom det att den museipedagogiska visningen av utställningen gestaltades som en multimodal konfiguration där eleverna var deltagare i produktionen av utställningen. De bildrepresentationer som elever skapade var alla olika och unika i både form och innehåll (mening).

This study aims to examine attitudes and conceptions of staff who work with mentally disabled persons, concerning normalization and gender. Six qualitative interviews with such professionals were performed and subsequently analyzed. Since the method of this study is qualitative, no claim of generalizability is made. The interview material has been categorized into themes by means of coding. The result of the study is presented according to those themes.

The purpose of this study is to examine discussions on the Swedish internet forum ?Flashback? regarding female body hair and the cultural norms that surround it. The discussion is centered around a broadcasted event in which a woman?s hairy armpit was incidentally shown, with a lot of viral hate as a result. Our purpose with this study is to get a deeper insight into viral hate towards women who challenge gender norms.

The aim with this masters thesis is to investigate how gender is presented in Swedish picture books, in order to give librarians and other actors in the field knowledge about what kind of books they supply impressionable children with. I investigate if and how the changes concerning gender-equality in the Swedish society during the last 25 years are reflected in childrens literature, and compare how men and women are portrayed in four books from the early 1980s with four books from the 2000s. My study is delimited to three aspects of character formation, introduced by Maria Nikolajeva: description of psychology, actions and relations to other characters. It is carried through by consultation of Yvonne Hirdmans theory of how men and women are held apart and that the man in this relation constitutes the norm as well as Nikolajevas list of typical male and female characteristics. By reading and interpreting the chosen books, I analyse both text and pictures.