Sökning: "Widowhood"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade ordet Widowhood.

  1. 1. WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT - A STUDY ON THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WIDOWS IN NAIROBI, KENYA

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Kajsa Lindström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Widowhood; Women’s Empowerment; Gender Equality; Kenya; Power Structures.; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : As international actors and public policies have centered the ambition of gender equity, empowerment has become a buzzword within international development. With its original conceptualization suggesting a process of redefining the structures of power, feminist scholars have noted how empowerment has been robbed of its central element; power. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Impact of Changes in Family Structure on Individuals’ Financial Risk Attitudes: A longitudinal analysis from the Netherlands

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Alida Persson; Caroline Hovstadius; [2022]
    Nyckelord :risk attitude; family structure; panel data; Netherlands; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Risk attitudes influence a wide range of financial decisions in the household, such as investments, consumption, and savings. It is, therefore, crucial to understand risk attitudes and how they change throughout the life cycle, in order to determine and predict economic behavior. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Änkeståndets påverkan : Hur kvinnors levnadssituationer i Vrindavan och Tiruchirappalli påverkas av deras änkestånd

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Felicia Öberg; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Widowhood; Human rights; The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Oppression; Discrimination; Social groups; Identity; India; Kvinnor i änkestånd; Mänskliga rättigheter; The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Förtryck; Diskriminering; Sociala grupper; Identitet; Indien;

    Sammanfattning : Denna uppsats undersöker levnadssituationerna för kvinnor i änkestånd i städerna Vrindavan och Tiruchirappalli, Indien. Till Vrindavan vallfärdar kvinnor i änkestånd från hela landet och staden beskrivs som en ”änkornas stad”. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Sorgen gestaltad : Om den svenska gravskulpturens konstnärer och beställare

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Berit Linden; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Tomb sculpture; gender; commissioners; Gravskulptur; genus; beställare;

    Sammanfattning : This study Shaped grief. On Swedish Tomb Sculpture’s Artists and Commissioners begins by contextualizing the field in question, the field of the tomb sculpture and the tomb sculptor, the burial sites and representations of death, the sculpture of that period, and especially the iconography of the sepulcher art, and the situation of the female sculptors. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Functions of Journey and Ascent in Selected Short Stories in Margaret Drabble’s A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

    Master-uppsats, Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Daria Zheltukhina; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Psychological journey; ascent; multiple angles; Margaret Drabble s short stories.;

    Sammanfattning : The present essay studies the functions of journey and ascent as recurrent motifs in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble. The relationships between the geographical and psychological journeys and ascents are explored. LÄS MER