Research on Pride festivals highlight the ambivalent meanings of Pride today. While debates about Pride have illuminated a variety of important issues they tend to be located in urban contexts and the effects of urban normativity is absent in these debates. This article explores LGBTQ activism in a rural setting in Sweden with a point of departure ...
The aim of this thesis is to examine female migrants’ experiences of separatist activation policies for a more inclusive labor market, and to contribute to a more nuanced and heterogeneous view on "immigrant women" in Sweden. I interviewed five women who have participated in these types of programs. The empiric material was analyzed from a social c...
This sociological study discusses the topics perceptions, organizations and social relations and has its base in the context of female managers within elderly care. The study is written in the field of human resources and the purpose is to contribute to the understanding of how social and organizational relations shape female managers’ perceptions ...
Offentliga diskurser har historiskt framställt feminitet och feminism som oförenliga med varandra. Feminitet framställs vanligen med en kvinna som besitter normativt feminina egenskaper, medan framställningen av feministen skildrat en radikal och manhaftig kvinna. Tidigare forskning visar att ordet feminist, för många individer, har en negativ ladd...
Hur tolkar en queer publik en homonormativ medietext? Martina Ladendorf analyserar hur några tittare identifierar sig med och förhåller sig till teveserien L-words representationer av lesbiska sexuella akter.
