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  1. 1. How individuals engaged in social work in Bali perceive their room for action when working with jandas : A qualitative study on social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali

    Kandidat-uppsats, Marie Cederschiöld högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskap

    Författare :Camilla Johansson; Elin Rosenblad; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Janda; Bali; Social Work; Room For Action; Empowerment; Patrilineal; Patriarchal; Law; Culture;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals engaged in social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali perceive their room for action. Our participants' clients are widows, divorced women, unmarried women, or women with children born out of wedlock. In our thesis, we refer to these women as jandas. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Widows, land rights and women’s empowerment: “Who will own the kitchen”? - findings from the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Elin Johansson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Widows; Tanzania; Land rights; Women’s empowerment; Local government; Participation; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Women around the world are constantly being denied their land rights due to discriminatory practices. Widowed women are particularly at risk. This prevents advancing women’s empowerment and women’s equal opportunities for participation and leadership at all levels of decision making processes. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Among Landladies and Brewery Operations : - Women's Participation on the 18th Century Housing Market in Stockholm

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Författare :Emelie Carlsson; [2023]
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    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates women’s participation on the 18th century housing market in Stockholm. General and independent participation, including the distribution of marital status among female buyers and sellers are investigated for four years (1725, 1745, 1765 and 1785). Original hand-written sources, circa 700 of them, have been examined. LÄS MER

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. De vita fläckarna i soldathistorien : En studie över blivande soldat- och båtsmansänkors liv under 1800-talet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Författare :Annie Norin; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Soldathistoria; soldathustru; 1800-talet; Himmeta; Förkärla;

    Sammanfattning : This essay deals with the lives of soldiers' widows in Himmeta parish in Västmanland and boatsmen's widows in Förkärla parish in Blekinge in the 19th century with the aim of highlighting these women. I chose these women from a parish register from 1871-1880. LÄS MER