The year 1990 Sweden stopped to screen schoolbooks and left the choice of literature to the schools. This may have influenced what is portrayed in student literature. This study was created to map out how gender is portrayed in English schoolbooks for the course of English 5. Gender is a social construct, created by society that explains to us how we are supposed to act based on the sex one was born with. Humans are always influenced by the environment and are assumed to behave a certain way.  With the help of a discourse analysis, a student literature was analyzed with gender equality viewpoint on how men and women were portrayed in the literature. With the help of the analysis some concluding thoughts were made, that even though our society has evolved, some traditional norms are still in texts and influence readers, even though more modern aspects are portrayed throughout students’ literature.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka förekomsten av narkotikabruk och upplevt utanförskaphos hbtqi-personer samt ett eventuellt samband mellan upplevt utanförskap ochnarkotikabruk. Empirin samlades in genom en surveydesign i form av enenkätundersökning i enlighet med den kvantitativa forskningsansatsen. Enkäten gav 64svar med ett bortfall på 6 personer som angav att de inte var hbtqi då målgruppen varhbtqi-personer. Datan bearbetades sedan i SPSS (Statistical Package for the SocialScience) och analyserades med hjälp av tidigare forskning och två teoretiskautgångspunkter: Symbolisk interaktionism samt stämplingsteorin. Resultatet av studienvisade att det förekommer narkotikabruk hos hbtqi-personer och att det finns ettsamband mellan narkotikabruk och upplevt utanförskap.

This thesis explores elderly women´s subjective experiences of being women of age in our  capitalistic Swedish society of today. The aim of the research is to illuminate the importance of age-analysis in our contemporary society and within academia, by highlighting age as a social position which intersects with other identity categories such as gender and class. The data collection consists of seven qualitative semi-structured interviews with women within the age of 73-86, who were active feminists during the second wave of feminism. The analysis is primarily based on a theoretical framework consisting of Simone de Beauvoir´s “the Other”, Pierre Bourdieus´s different forms of capitals and “heteronormative lifescript”. The result shows in several different ways how old women are reduced to “the Other”. The findings further show that a narrow framework of norms about elderly women limits the space within which they can cultivate autonomous subjectivities. The result also indicates that the long-lasting experience of feminist awareness and activism have a great impact on the experience of aging. Drawing on Bourdieu, the concept of “feminist habitus” is introduced. The analysis clearly shows how access to social, cultural and symbolic capital is essential to the experience of aging. One of the main conclusions is that capitalist forces form the terms of elderly women´s life space.