The urban physical practice of parkour can be described as male dominated. In thispaper, however, I choose to focus on Women participating in the sport. My materialconsist of interviews with five Swedish Women who regularly perform parkour.Through the phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Marion Young and SaraAhmed, I analyze the Women?s relationship to the body and (public) space. Myconclusion is that engaging in parkour has changed the way the Women understandtheir own corporeality, from an ?I cannot? to an ?I can?.

Body image in Women with breastcancerBreast cancer is the second most common form of cancer in Sweden today. To get a breast cancer diagnose can be a traumatic experience for many Women. It´s difficult to forsee how these Women are going to control their situation. When a breast has to be removed because of cancer, the Women has to adjust to changes in both physical and phychological aspects. The aim of this study was to elucidate body image in Women with breast cancer after a mastectomy.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish Women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant Women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these Women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of Women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of Women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish Women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant Women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these Women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of Women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of Women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish Women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant Women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these Women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of Women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of Women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish Women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant Women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these Women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of Women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of Women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

The world today is not an equal place. We see children starve, people being discriminated and Women?s rights being neglected. The media coverage of Women?s sports is no exception.

For some time researcher has focused their interest on how Women are being treated in sports and what impact it has on the development of the sports movement. Researchers in the field have tried to clarify where the problem lies, if it is gender or sex. Are the differences between the sexes caused by how society portrays Women or because Women and men are built for different purposes. This research paper studied how Women in the sports of snowboarding and freeskiing perceived their possibilities to practice their own sports. Furthermore, the study tried to answer if the problems are originated from the culture of the sports, what the possibilities and opportunities Women had to make ?it? and what Women think is the reason why there are so few female athletes in their sports.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish Women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant Women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these Women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of Women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of Women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore which inner conceptions about the abused older Women the professional social workers had and how they experienced the enconter of an abused old woman in an intimate partner relation. The theoretical background is social construction by Berger and Luckmann. This theory was uset to analyze the transcribed interviews. This study is based on nine interviews with five professionals in social services, three volunteers from the voluntary sector and one social worker who worked in a community based support group for abused older Women. The result of this study shows that older Women were often abused, by a relative they were dependent on, in their home.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish Women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant Women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these Women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of Women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of Women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

The estimated number of people living in extreme poverty is 1.3 billion and 70% of those are Women. The aim of this study is to explain in what ways and why Women are regarded as poorer than men.The definition of poverty has expanded and is now multidimensional. In order to answer the aim of this thesis the following dimensions will be included and work as a theory in which the analysis will be structured after. Through a gender perspective, will the role of woman emerge through a multidimensional definition of poverty. If the balance is a negative in these dimensions, the situation for Women will worsen and become permanent.

This thesis discusses the subject of men?s violence towards Women present day Sweden. My primary information consists of a national report, including men?s violence against Women. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how men?s violence towards Women is argued in the above named national report.

Women today feel that their urban surroundings are unsafe, and because of that they use different strategies to reduce the risk of being exposed to criminal acts towards them. The focus of this study is to develop an understanding of the insecure feeling that Women feel and what that feeling might originate from. By using previous research and theories we have been able to incorporate a gender perspective on the study this because the gender role is central to understand Women?s feelings of insecurity. The purpose of the study was to develop a deeper understanding of Women?s sense of safety and insecurity.The central questions of the study are1.

This essay discusses the problems with the high rate of long-term sickness leave among Women in Sweden. It is based on interviews with six Women suffering from stress-related illness. The results show that these Women hardly ever recieved an explicit diagnosis and therefore did not feel that their illness was acknowledged. In the abscense of measurable symptoms they were sometimes stigmatisized and accused of simulating their problems. From this position they tried to legitimize their situation by presenting themselves as respectable Women.