The aim of this Masters thesis is, partly, to examine the information needs of lesbians: what discernable information needs they have, how they seek information and which information sources they use. The purpose is also to examine what part fiction plays regarding the information needs mentioned above and how fiction indexing could improve retrieval. The study is conducted through ten qualitative interviews with lesbians as well as through textual analysis. The theoretical framework includes queer theory and theory concerning information needs and uses. The results indicate that lesbians have evident information needs that mostly concern identity.

The purpose of this study is to identify and make attitudes among social workers towards homosexual and bisexual people visible, examine how these attitudes relate to their actions in their professional role and how these attitudes and actions can be understood by theories of heteronormativity and power. The study is a cross-sectional quantitative survey in the form of a questionnaire completed by social workers. The result shows that there are two groups among the social workers. One larger group that reproduces a norm of acceptance toward homosexual and bisexual people and one smaller that reproduces a heterosexual norm. This reproduction of heteronormativity increases the risk for homosexual and bisexual people to be made invisible and treated more negatively in contact with social workers, which in turn can lead to worse health among the clients..

During the 1960s and 1970s an increased interest in Native Americans can be seen in Sweden, e.g. through the establishment of organizations such as the Indian Club of Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to study the portrayal of Native Americans and its role through Albin Widén, a Swedish author, ethnologist and member of the Indian Club, and his non-fictional works on the Swedish migration to America, Swedish-America and Swedish contacts with Native Americans. The study is divided into four parts. The first part looks at the portrayal of the Native Americans in Widén?s writings, in comparison with Euro-Americans? and Europeans? traditional stereotypic images of a good and a bad Indian.

The purpose of this study is to explore how different discourses about risk linked to HIV prevention is likely to affect the decisions on the distribution of state funding for preventive activities aimed at 'men who have sex with men' (MSM). This by making qualitative interviews with principals that have an impact on this decision. Using a discourse analytic approach, based on both theoretical and methodological foundations, I investigate the discursive constructions of risk of HIV linked to certain groups and behaviors. MSM is found in the material placed into two different formations of groups, on one hand by the behavior on the other hand on the basis of identity. The identity position is organized discursively from a ?victim? position while MSM provides an "operator" position.

During the 1960s and 1970s an increased interest in Native Americans can be seen in Sweden, e.g. through the establishment of organizations such as the Indian Club of Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to study the portrayal of Native Americans and its role through Albin Widén, a Swedish author, ethnologist and member of the Indian Club, and his non-fictional works on the Swedish migration to America, Swedish-America and Swedish contacts with Native Americans. The study is divided into four parts. The first part looks at the portrayal of the Native Americans in Widén?s writings, in comparison with Euro-Americans? and Europeans? traditional stereotypic images of a good and a bad Indian.

Although Sweden is considered to be in the lead concerning an open-minded perception of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population, very little attention has been given to the elderly within this target group. The elder LGBT population?s got special needs that haven?t been made sufficiently visible, neither as a research field, from social institutions nor from the LGBT movement itself. This study has described the target group's specific needs, based on the results of a focus group consisting of older LGBT people. Their experiences and stories have given an idea of what adjustments must be made to satisfy their specific needs.

In 2009 transgendered persons were included in the Swedish law against discrimination. Prior to the inclusion a commission made an investigation of the necessity of such change in the law and how it could be designed. This essay focuses on the discourses regarding gender that appear in the law and the report written by the commission. Using theories by Judith Butler and discourse analysis inspired by Norman Fairclough it identifies two main discourses regarding gender: a two gender discourse and a queer discourse. The two discourses meet in the studied material in an antagonistic way, a conflict that is solved by separating the two and making one part of the law focus on gender and one on transgender.

Uppsatsen syftar till att visa hur normer kring kön och sexualitet upphävs och utmanas under lajv (levande rollspel). Materialet som används är fältanteckningar från en deltagande observation under ett lajv och fem intervjuer med lajvare. Resultatet visar att heteronormativiteten och den heterosexuella matrisen bryts under lajv, det vill säga det finns en queer dimension under lajv. Denna brytning är möjlig eftersom lajv blir ett liminalt tillstånd genom leken och därmed inverteras samhällets normer. Under lajv kan deltagarna spela med sin könsidentitet och sin sexuella identitet vilket tydligt visar att dessa identiteter inte är några fasta kategorier utan föränderliga och flytande.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur olika samhällsinstansers syn på våld i samkönade parrelationer och vad de gör för att arbeta kring denna problematik. Ämnet studerades med en kvalitativ ansats. Urvalet av den teoretiska populationen utfördes genom strategiskt urval. Den insamlingsmetod som användes för data var delfimetoden. Vid analysen användes tidigare forskning samt queerteorin som teoretisk utgångspunkt.

During the 1960s and 1970s an increased interest in Native Americans can be seen in Sweden, e.g. through the establishment of organizations such as the Indian Club of Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to study the portrayal of Native Americans and its role through Albin Widén, a Swedish author, ethnologist and member of the Indian Club, and his non-fictional works on the Swedish migration to America, Swedish-America and Swedish contacts with Native Americans. The study is divided into four parts. The first part looks at the portrayal of the Native Americans in Widén?s writings, in comparison with Euro-Americans? and Europeans? traditional stereotypic images of a good and a bad Indian.

The portrayals of women in lifestyle magazines has been a continuous subject in genderresearch, but have mainly been focused on research about heterosexual women. However, how women are being portrayed through editorial content in an LGBT magazines have shown to be a gap in gender research.The purpose of this study was to find out how female identities were portrayed in theeditorial content in the LGBT magazine QX ? Sweden?s largest magazine aimed atmembers of the LGBT community in Sweden.The analysis of the material was conducted through a semiotic and a narrative analysis. Patterns and reoccurring themes were selected, and furthermore were analysed againstfeminist theories and views such as queer theory, radical feminism and post-modernfeminism.Four different gender archetypes derived from the result of the study: The strongfemale, The passive female, The stereotypical female, and The intimate female. Thestudy did show that women featured in QX magazine were portrayed throughheteronormative patterns, although the magazine represents a larger alternative group..

Uppsatsen handlar om normaliserande och meningsskapande praktiker bland statsanställda på olika myndigheter. Utifrån fem homosexuella tjänstemäns och tjänstekvinnors berättelser om sina arbetsliv och karriärer undersöks hur normalitet skapas och upprätthålls, hur homosexuell subjektivitet formas och hur normativa maktordningar kan utmanas. I uppsatsen visar vi att sexualitet inte kan förstås isolerat från andra maktordningar utan måste ses som intimt förknippat medföreställningar om kön, klass, etnicitet, ålder och yrkesposition. Ju närmare en normativ position den homosexuelle befinner sig desto mindre utmanande blir den homosexuella identiteten. Framför allt är kopplingen mellan sexualitet och kön viktig.

This thesis focuses on how sewdish politicians try to argue to get other EU-countries to accept a larger responsibility for refugees. Since the war in Iraq broke out in 2003 there have been a great increse in the number of refugees arriving to Europe. Sweden have accepted a very large part of these refugees. This have sparked a debate in Sweden aboute how reasonable it is that sweden accepts a proportionaly much larger number of refugees than other countries within the EU. The swedish gouvernment policy is that responisbility for refugees and migration is something that should be shared by all members of the union.

Titel Mediebilden av invandrare ? en kvantitativ innehållanalys av morgon- och kvällstidningar.Författare Rubi NilssonKurs Examensarbete i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapTermin Hösttermin 2011Syfte Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur media behandlar invandrare.Metod Kvantitativ innehållsanalysMaterial Artiklar där ordet ?invandrare? förekommer och som publicerades i Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Kvällsposten ochSydsvenskan mellan 1 mars 2011 och 31 maj 2011.Resultat Denna studies resultat visar att artiklar som behandlar ordet?invandrare? förekommer oftare i tidningar utgivna i Stockholm jämfört med skånska tidningarna. Vidare visar resultaten att morgontidningar i större utsträckning änkvällstidningar rapporterar om frågor som berör invandrare. Frågor som rör invandrare behandlas ofta som åsiktsmaterial i de undersökta kvällstidningarna. I de undersöktamorgontidningarna behandlas det frågor som rör invandrare i nyhetsmaterial snarare än i åsiktsmaterial.

I den här uppsatsen utgår vi från romanen Kunzelmann och Kunzelmann av Carl-Johan Vallgren. Vi analyserar den för att ta reda på hur den förhåller sig till det postmoderna samhället, och även hur postmodern romanen i sig är. I analysen använder vi oss av en dekonstruktivistisk metod där vi utgår endast från texten och inte författaren, och vi lutar oss på teorier om postmodernism samt queerteori. Analysen har vi strukturerat utefter vissa teman som vi har kunnat urskilja i romanen, som lägger viss tonvikt dels på sexualitet och dels på dikotomierna äkta och falskt. Vi tittar på de två huvudkaraktärerna Joakim och hans far Viktor, deras uppfattning av vad som är falskt och verkligt samt tematas ?porr?, ?queer? och ?en postmodern värld?.