Sökning: "matrilineal"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade ordet matrilineal.

1. 1. Female Empowerment and Early Childhood Health Investments: The Long-Term Effect of Matrilineal Kinship in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Eric Nordqvist; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Matrilineality; cultural persistence; female empowerment; child health investments.; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : How we choose to invest in the future generations is becoming increasingly imperative as researchers learn more about the long-term consequences of early childhood. The early-life literature suggests that empowered mothers invest more into their children and that matrilineal females are more empowered than patrilineal counterparts. LÄS MER

3. 2. The suppressed goddess of Beowulf : A feminist reading of Grendel’s mother as a representation of Norse goddess Gefion in a changing world order

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Lisa Persson Örtman; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Literary criticism; Beowulf; Grendel’s mother; Gefion; Earth goddess; monsters; abjection; feminism; the definition of a woman.;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study has been to investigate in feminist terms whether or not the character Grendel’s mother symbolizes early matrilineal tribes in the form of the Norse goddess Gefion, also claimed to be the Earth goddess. The claim has been brought forward in an article by Frank Battaglia on the grounds that the chthonic deity is mentioned on several occasions in Beowulf. LÄS MER

4. 3. Women’s land rights under the Mozambican Land Law: An ethnographic study of the matrilineal district of Majune, Niassa province, northern Mozambique

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Författare :Anna Gudrún Aradóttir; [2017-07-03]
   Nyckelord :Mozambican Land Law; Majune district; women’s land rights; matriliny; land tenure; formalization of customary rights;

   Sammanfattning : The Mozambican Land Law (Lei de Terra) that was passed in 1997 seeks to formalize customary rights at a community level and provide equal access to land for men and women, while securing external investors access to land for their investments. This ethnographic study explores women’s land rights in Majune district, Niassa province, under the Mozambican Land Law. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Matrilineal Puzzle : Women's Land Rights in Mozambique- Case study: Niassa Province

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Författare :Karin Lidström; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Sustainable development; Mozambique; women’s rights; land rights; gender and development; matrilineal community;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to shed light on issues related to women’s rights to access and benefit from land in matrilineal communities in rural, northern Mozambique. It portrays the environment in which organisations working with implementation of land rights operate as well as proposes conclusions on the core obstacles to their work. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Gendered Resistance and Adaptation to the Neoliberal Globalization: based on a qualitative case study in Mosuo matrilineal communities

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Författare :Jiajie Li; [2011]
   Nyckelord :neoliberal; globalization; gender; Mosuo; matrilineal; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Women gain less advantage than men in the history of neoliberalism. In this thesis, the author reviews the influence of neoliberal globalization on local women in the comparison of Swedish and Chinese context and discovers their different ways of doing gender. LÄS MER