abstract: This dissertation examines the discursive construction of the trope of the ideal girl in popular American girls' series in the twentieth century. Girls' cultural artifacts, including girls' literature series, provide sites for understanding girls' experiences and exploring girlhood itself as a socially constructed identity, yet are often overlooked due to their presumed insignificance. Simple dismissal of these texts ignores the weight of their popularity and the processes through which they reach such status. This project challenges the derisive attitude towards girls' culture and begins with the assumption that these cultural texts do ideological work and therefore require consideration. The dissertation traces the development of the ideal and non-ideal girl over time, taking into account the cultural, political, and economic factors that facilitate the production of the discourses of girlhood. I include analysis of texts from six popular American girls' series as primary texts; visual elements or media productions related to the series; and supporting historical documents such as newspapers, "expert" texts, popular parents' and girls' magazines, film; and advertising. Methodological approach incorporates elements of literary criticism and discourse analysis, combining literary, historical, and cultural approaches to primary texts and supporting documents to trace the moments of production, resistance, and response in the figure of the ideal girl. Throughout the project, I pay particular attention to the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality in the figure of the ideal girl and her non-ideal counterparts. I argue that girls' series, slipping under the radar as a denigrated cultural medium, capture and perpetuate cultural anxieties around heterosexuality, whiteness and American identity, appropriate gender roles, and class mobility. These texts discipline the non-ideal girl toward the ideal, always with the expectation of failure. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Gender Studies 2013

This work is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of everyday knowledges and practices to re-address the issue of resistance, problematise the existing notions and create re-articulations. In what follows, I am investigating the main intersections of discrimination in the experience of the latest wave of Greek women migrants in Sweden in order to single out and analyze the ways and tools of their everyday resistance and re-existence. Grounded in the geo-politics and body-politics of knowledge this research begins with challenging the Greek crisis and migration to transgress all-encompassing categories such as crisis, migrant, woman, everyday, resistance and at the same time propose alternative ways and tropes to comprehend and handle their content.  In order to reconfigure everyday resistance and expose the marginal layers between “obedience” and “disobedience”, I will unlearn and relearn the Greek history, decolonize the Greek identity, and at last reaffirm the experiential knowing through being, a knowledge that has been durably repressed.

nÃo hà / A presente tese, intitulada Mulheres Negras, Negras Mulheres: ativismo na capital Baiana â 1980-1991, à o resultado da pesquisa junto ao Movimento de Mulheres Negras na cidade de Salvador (BA) com recorte temporal. O perÃodo escolhido deveu-se ao fato de ser a redemocratizaÃÃo do paÃs, quando os movimentos sociais, em especial o movimento de mulheres negras, voltaram a ter visibilidade em suas aÃÃes. O objetivo principal foi estudar o movimento das mulheres negras em Salvador na dÃcada de 1980 e inÃcio dos anos de 1990 do sÃculo XX. A metodologia utilizada foi de natureza qualitativa com o propÃsito de interpretar os significados atribuÃdos por essas mulheres ao que se refere as opressÃes de raÃa-gÃnero-classe-sexualidade, de forma interseccional, e como vai se constituindo suas identidades no que concerne ser mulher negra ativista. Apresentamos como tÃcnicas: entrevista semiestruturada com 6 ativistas soteropolitanas e 2 ativistas da cidade do Rio de janeiro, alÃm de anÃlise documental. Consideramos tambÃm os estudos desenvolvidos no campo da interseccionalidade, de modo a evidenciar que os marcadores identitÃrios dessas mulheres as tornam mais vulnerÃveis e, ao mesmo tempo, as fortalecem enquanto coletivo, para o enfrentamento das opressÃes vivenciadas. Como resultado as entrevistadas comprovaram que hà uma interseccionalidade nas sujeiÃÃes que experimentam revelando que as histÃrias de vida da maioria das mulheres negras muito se assemelham ao que se refere a essas opressÃes, existe uma preocupaÃÃo em empoderar outras mulheres negras; elas estavam atentas e atuantes aos acontecimentos em nÃvel local e nacional e seus ativismos eram propositivos, ou seja, ultrapassavam o campo das denÃncias indicando possibilidades para a construÃÃo de uma sociedade menos racista, machista, elitista e homofÃbica.

nÃo hà / A pesquisa circunscrita neste trabalho dissertativo apresenta como objeto de investigaÃÃo a avaliaÃÃo em processo da construÃÃo da intersetorialidade no Paif do Centro de ReferÃncia da AssistÃncia Social (CRAS) do Bairro Mondubim, municÃpio de Fortaleza. A pesquisa apresenta delineamentos teÃrico-metodolÃgicos configurados em postulaÃÃes epistemolÃgicas que demarcam a proposiÃÃo do âRacionalismo aberto e crÃticoâ de Alba Carvalho, como via do conceber e fazer ciÃncia. Nessa direÃÃo, o traÃado metodolÃgico da pesquisa foi materializado com a realizaÃÃo de pesquisa bibliogrÃfica, de pesquisa documental e de pesquisa empÃrica. Considerando-se a demarcaÃÃo teÃrico-empÃrica, circunscrita no objeto da investigaÃÃo, a construÃÃo dos aportes analÃticos da pesquisa foi estruturada com base no levantamento e na leitura de produÃÃes cientÃficas sobre os temas: Estado, pobreza, proteÃÃo social, polÃtica pÃblica de assistÃncia social e intersetorialidade. O campo empÃrico da pesquisa està circunscrito ao Ãmbito de espaÃos institucionais que operacionalizam a polÃtica de assistÃncia social em Fortaleza, no decurso dos anos de 2012 e 2013, a saber: Secretaria Municipal de AssistÃncia Social; Distrito de AssistÃncia Social da Secretaria Executiva Regional V e, por fim, o Cras do Bairro Mondubim. A pesquisa apresenta um enfoque qualitativo, articulando-se à adoÃÃo de aportes prÃprios da abordagem quantitativa. Nessa direÃÃo, foram aplicados 54 questionÃrios com profissionais de nÃvel superior e mÃdio do Paif da SER V e realizadas entrevistas em profundidade com 19 profissionais e usuÃrios(as) do Paif do Cras Mondubim. No percurso metodolÃgico da pesquisa, tambÃm foi realizado o levantamento e a anÃlise de documentos e, por fim, foi efetivado intenso processo de observaÃÃo do desenvolvimento do Paif no Ãmbito do Cras Mondubim. No que diz respeito aos resultados demarcados pela investigaÃÃo, destacam-se: os(as) interlocutores da pesquisa â em meio Ãs diferenciaÃÃes quanto à perspectiva analÃtica e as especificidades delineadas pelos seus discursos â postulam que a categoria da intersetorialidade apresenta lugar de destaque na configuraÃÃo da identidade e do modus operandi da polÃtica de assistÃncia social, indicando que o estabelecimento desta categoria na operacionalizaÃÃo dos programas, projetos e serviÃos da assistÃncia social demarca uma importante via para a sua afirmaÃÃo como polÃtica pÃblica de proteÃÃo social nÃo contributiva. / The research circumscribed in this argumentative work presents as its main object of investigation the evaluation of the intersectoral construction process in the Paif Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) of Mondubim, a neighborhood in Fortaleza . The research presents theoretical and methodological designs configured in epistemological postulations that mark the proposition of "open and critical rationalism" as proposed by Alba Carvalho, as a way of conceiving and doing science. In this sense, the methodological route of the research was done through bibliographical research, desk research and empirical research. Considering the theoretical and empirical demarcation, confined to the subject of the investigation, the construction of the analytical contributions of the research was structured based on the survey and the reading of scientific papers on the themes: State, poverty, social protection, public policy social assistance and intersectoral. The empirical field of the research is limited to the scope of institutional spaces which operationalize social assistance policy in Fortaleza, during the years 2012 and 2013, namely: Secretaria Municipal de AssistÃncia Social; Distrito de AssistÃncia Social da Secretaria Executiva Regional V; and, finally, Cras Mondubim. The research presents a qualitative approach, linking to the adoption of contributions of the quantitative approach. In this sense, interviews questionnaires were applied to 54 professionals of high and medium levels from Paif SER V and conducted in depth with 19 professionals and users (as) the Paif of Cras Mondubim. In the methodological research route, it was also carried out the survey and the analysis of documents and, finally, an intense process of Paifâs development observation was done in Cras Mondubim. With regard to the results marked by the research, we can point out: the interlocutors results â through differences on the analytical perspective and the specifications outlined by their speeches - postulate that the intersectoral category has a prominent place in the configuration of identity and the modus operandi of social welfare policy, indicating that the establishment of this category in the operationalization of programs, projects and services of social work marks an important route to its statement as a public policy of non-contributory social protection.

The capillary transition occurs when the person stops changing the structure of the hair thread using cosmetic products based on chemical substances that give as result a straight hair, and that hair is cared up in a different way from then on. That chemical process gives support to beauty standards imposed to women, affects the self-esteem and raises discussions about consumption, racial and gender relation in brazilian context. Starting from a content survey of two YouTube channels about capillary transition and the native terms that are used to refer to people that passed for this process, I intend to understand the disputes around construction of the meanings of that, analyzing the consumption practices and the intersection between race and gender. This investigation aims on cyberspace, here we highlight the importance of social media, websites and digital platforms as a space for sharing knowledge about hair, ways to take care of it, hairstyles, specific products, and other discussions as feminism, racism and veganism. In this dissertation I introduce a panoramic vision of the studies about hair in Brazil, emphasizing the emergence of hair straightening, outlining the characteristics of the process of capillary transition and the innovations the follows it, exposing how the process has been organized in the cyberspace, articulating a discussion oriented by a perspective of consumption and the intersectionality between race and gender, realizing how the circulation of this contents occurs, the consumption practices and the disputes around native terms. / A transição capilar ocorre, quando se deixa de alterar a estrutura dos fios do cabelo com o uso de produtos cosméticos a base de substâncias químicas resultando em um aspecto liso e este cabelo crescente passa a ser cuidado de maneira diferenciada. A transição capilar tenciona os padrões de beleza impostos às mulheres, afeta a autoestima e suscita discussões sobre consumo, as relações raciais e de gênero no contexto brasileiro. Partindo de um levantamento dos conteúdos produzidos e postados em dois canais no YouTube sobre transição capilar e os termos nativos que são usados para se referir aos cabelos transicionados, busco perceber como se dão as disputas em torno da construção dos significados deste, analisando as praticas de consumo e a intersecção entre raça e gênero. Essa investigação tem como lócus o ciberespaço, aqui destacamos a importância das redes sociais, sites e plataformas digitais como espaço de divulgação de conhecimentos a cerca dos cabelos, formas de cuidado, penteados, produtos específicos, entre outras discussões como feminismo, racismo, machismo e veganismo. Nesta dissertação apresento uma visão panorâmica dos estudos sobre cabelos no Brasil, ressalto o momento de surgimento do alisamento capilar, delineio as características do processo de transição capilar e as inovações que o seguem, exponho como processo de transição capilar tem se organizado no ciberespaço, articulado a uma discussão orientada por uma perspectiva do consumo e da Interseccionalidade raça e gênero, percebendo como se dá a circulação desses conteúdos, as praticas de consumo e as disputas de sentido em torno dos termos nativos. / São Cristóvão, SE

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Dentre suas diversas abordagens, prevalece a ideia da intersetorialidade enquanto estratégia de gestão integradora de diversos setores – públicos, privados e da sociedade civil – com vistas à solução de problemas sociais. Isto permite uma compreensão global sobre a temática das drogas, pois espelha uma visão multifacetada do problema que encontra correspondência com a visão das drogas enquanto questão social e que, portanto, não se refere a um único ator, nem apenas determinados setores. A presente pesquisa caracterizou-se por ser um estudo de caso de natureza exploratória, realizada no município de Juiz de Fora/MG. Analisamos o funcionamento da intersetorialidade por meio de observação participante, de documentos oficiais e de entrevistas semiestruturadas com os gestores que compõem o Comitê Gestor Municipal de Políticas sobre Drogas do Programa Crack, é Possível Vencer. Os resultados apontaram que a intersetorialidade ainda se apresenta como um processo em vias de construção, com grandes desafios a serem enfrentados. Existe uma noção dos atores políticos sobre o conceito de intersetorialidade, associados a aspectos da complementaridade entre os setores, objetivo comum, interdisciplinaridade, integralidade, dissenso prático. Por outro lado, falta a definição de parâmetros que norteiem as ações. Habitualmente, o que existem são estratégias emergenciais de cada setor, isoladamente. Nos aspectos facilitadores do trabalho intersetorial foram encontrados a interação entre sistemas, análise de cenário, planejamento de execução, conhecimento do trabalho do outro e liderança. Entre os aspectos dificultadores: excessiva burocratização, interesses pessoais e políticos, prioridades distintas, fragmentação do aparelho administrativo, diálogo insuficiente e sobrecargas setoriais. Na questão específica das drogas, há dificuldades no que se refere ao desconhecimento da rede, participação da sociedade civil, cobrança de indicadores e recursos humanos. Já nos aspectos do programa foram citados, entre outros, ausência de convergência programática, lentidão no processo, ausência de planejamento na execução, concepção que prevê interfaces, facilitador de diálogo. Compreender os aspectos abordados facilita e instrui o aprimoramento das políticas públicas que se pretendem intersetoriais, especialmente na área de drogas. / The issue of intersectionality is increasingly in the debate about public policy management in Brazil. As for their different approaches, prevails the idea of conception as a public management strategy that refer the integration of various sectors and civil society, in order to solve social problems. This allows an overall understanding about the thematic of drugs, as mirrors a multifaceted view of the problem that finds correspondence with the vision of drugs as a social issue and, therefore, does not refer to a single actor, not just certain sectors. The research was characterized by being an exploratory case study conducted in the city of Juiz de Fora/MG. We analyze the functioning of the intersectoral through participant observation, official documents and semi-structured interviews with managers that compose the Comitê Gestor Municipal de Políticas Sobre Drogas (Municipal Management Committee on Drugs) of Programa Crack, é Possível Vencer (Crack Program is Possible Winning). The results showed that the intersectoral approach still is a process under construction, with great challenges. There is a notion of political actors about the concept of intersectionality, associated with aspects of complementarity between sectors, common objective, interdisciplinarity, integrality and practical disagreement. There is a lack of parameter setting for the actions that the guides. Usually, there are emergency strategies of each sector separately. Facilitators aspects of intersectoral approach were the interaction between systems, scenario analysis, implementation planning, knowledge of the other's work and leadership. Hindering aspects: excessive bureaucratization, personal and political interests, different priorities, fragmentation of the administration, insufficient dialogue and sector overloads. In the specific issue of drugs, there are difficulties with regard to the lack of knowledge of network, participation of civil society, pressure for indicators and human resources. While the aspects of the program were cited, among others, lack of programmatic convergence, slowness in the process, lack of planning in the implementation, design which provides interfaces, dialogue facilitator. Understand the points raised facilitates and directs the improvement of public policies that are to be intersectional, especially in the area of drugs.

Abstract This study focuses on representations of multiculturalism in children’s literature. Children’s books are seen as cultural products which do not only reflect but also construct our social reality. The research consists of four peer-reviewed articles and a summary part. This interdisciplinary research is theoretically positioned in both cultural studies and social sciences, with the key concepts of multiculturalism, identity, ethnicity, racism and anti-racism. More specifically, the study contributes to the discussions of multicultural children’s literature as both pedagogy and art. The methodological-theoretical framework is based on the social constructionist approach. Language is understood as socially, historically, sociopolitically and ideologically constructed; hence performativity, discourse and representation are considered as key concepts of the analysis. Intersectionality functions as both a theoretical framework which guides the understanding of multiculturalism, as well as an analytical tool for examining the data. The data consists of children’s picturebooks which are analysed by applying the method of close reading. Intersectional analysis also makes the numerous sociocultural categories, i.e. ethnicity, nationality, gender, language, dis/ability and age visible in the studied books. The results show that representations of multiculturalism are connected to the ideas of nationality, which again relates to the ideas of belonging and exclusion – often meaning Finnish/non-Finnish division. The representations of multiculturalism can reproduce and circulate discourses of differentiation, and thus legitimise exclusion and marginalisation of people. However, picturebooks can also display representations of multiculturalism that challenge the normative assumptions of ‘difference’ and ‘normal’. In the studied books, challenging the dominant sociopolitical discourses seems to further the understanding of ‘us’ in a more inclusive way which then might prevent exclusion of people who differ from the ‘norm’. The didactic quality of children’s books is manifest in anti-racist strategies with the aim of reducing racism by making it visible. The study shows that children’s literature offers possibilities for readers to question implicit assumptions about the self and other, and thus can support readers in becoming more culturally aware and sensitive. / Tiivistelmä Tämän tutkimuksen keskiössä ovat lastenkirjallisuudessa esiintyvät monikulttuurisuuden representaatiot. Tarkastelen lastenkirjallisuutta kulttuurisena tuotteena, joka ei ainoastaan heijasta vaan myös rakentaa sosiaalista todellisuutta. Tutkimus rakentuu neljästä vertaisarvioudusta artikkelista sekä yhteenveto-osasta. Tutkimus on monitieteinen, ja sijoittuu sekä kulttuurintutkimuksen että yhteiskuntatieteiden kenttään. Keskeisiä käsitteitä ovat monikulttuurisuus, identiteetti, etnisyys, rasismi ja anti-rasismi. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan lastenkirjallisuutta sekä pedagogiikan välineenä että taiteellisena tuotteena. Tutkimuksen metodologis-teoreettisen perustan muodostaa sosiaalinen konstruktivismi. Kieli ymmärretään sosiaalisesti, historiallisesti, poliittisesti ja ideologisesti rakentuneena, ja analyysin avainkäsitteitä ovat performatiivisuus, diskurssi ja representaatio. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostuu lasten kuvakirjoista, joiden analysoinnissa on hyödynnetty lähiluvun tekniikkaa. Intersektionaalisuus toimii teoreettisena viitekehyksenä, mutta se tarjoaa myös sopivan analyysivälineen mahdollistaen erilaisten sosiaalisten kategorioiden (etnisyys, kansalaisuus, sukupuoli, kieli, kyvykkyys, ikä) tekemisen näkyviksi aineistossa. Tulosten mukaan monikulttuurisuus kuvataan usein kansalaisuuden kautta. Kansalaisuuden representaatioihin kiinnittyy kuulumisen ja poissulkemisen tematiikkaa, joka ilmenee usein suomalainen/ei-suomalainen-jaotteluna. Koska monikulttuurisuuden representaatiot tuottavat eroja korostavia diskursseja, ne myös aiheuttavat yksilöiden syrjäyttämistä. Lastenkirjallisuus sisältää toisaalta myös kuvauksia, jotka haastavat normatiivisen jaottelun ’erilaisuuteen’ ja ’normaaliin’. Dominoivien sosiaalisten ja poliittisten diskurssien haastaminen mahdollistaa meihin ja muihin liittyvien erontekojen monimuotoisemman ymmärtämisen. Näin normista poikkeavia yksilöitä ei suljeta ulkopuolelle yhtä herkästi. Lastenkirjojen didaktinen ominaisuus tulee esille erityisesti antirasistisina strategioina, joiden avulla rasismiin pyritään puuttumaan tekemällä se näkyväksi. Tutkimuksen mukaan lastenkirjallisuus tarjoaa lukijoille mahdollisuuksia kyseenalaistaa yksinkertaistavia oletuksia itsestä ja muista. Näin lastenkirjallisuus voi tukea lukijan kulttuurisen tietouden kehittymistä.

Au croisement de la sociologie des mobilisations, de la sociologie des migrations et des études genre, cette thèse vise à saisir la réalisation des rapports de domination dans l’action collective des migrant.e.s brésilien.ne.s au Japon dans les années 2000. Au delà des catégorisations ethnoraciales (descendant.e / non descendant.e de Japonais) et classées (ouvrier.ère / indépendant.e), généralement utilisées pour décrire ce fait migratoire, les catégories de sexe contribuent aussi à le caractériser. Dans la perspective de l’intersectionnalité, la thèse s’appuie sur l’ethnographie multisituée pour appréhender la réalisation des rapports sociaux de sexe, de race et de classe. Ceux-ci s’actualisent dans des pratiques circonscrites mais aussi dans des contextes variés où l’intersectionnalité se révèle d’autant mieux que les rapports de pouvoir peuvent changer, s’inverser, « s’invisibiliser ». Pour ce faire, trois espaces de mobilisation ont été explorés : des écoles brésiliennes, des syndicats et des associations locales. Des observations in situ étalées entre 2006 et 2011 ont été complétées par quatre-vingt-dix entretiens semi-directifs en portugais et en japonais avec des familles migrantes, les migrant.e.s mobilisé.e.s, les leaderships et leurs soutiens extérieurs. En examinant leurs interactions, l’enquête multisituée montre que la réalisation des rapports de domination s’appréhende à partir de trois échelles d’analyse : nationale (les contextes japonais et brésilien), sectorielle (syndical, éducatif et associatif) et situationnelle (les dynamiques des organisations dans chaque secteur). De cette façon, la thèse fait ressortir les nouvelles frontières de la société japonaise et les reconfigurations de l’imaginaire national brésilien selon les sites de l’enquête. / At the intersection of the sociology of mobilization, the sociology of migration and the gender studies, this thesis aims at capturing the accomplishment of relations of domination in the collective actions of Brazilian migrants in Japan in the 2000s. Beyond ethnoracial (descendants / non descendants of Japanese people) and class-based (unskilled workers / self-employed) categorizations, generally used to describe this migration, the social relations of sex also help to categorize the phenomenon. In the wake of the theory of intersectionality, this thesis – based on a multisited ethnography – analyzes the production of social relations of sex, race and class. These can be observed in specific practices but also in a variety of contexts where intersectionality becomes all the more noticeable as the relations of power may change, interchangeable and « invisible ». To do so, three spaces of mobilization have been explored : Brazilian schools, workers’ unions and grassroots organizations. In situ observations were conducted from 2006 to 2011 and ninety semi-structured interviews were led in Japanese and Portuguese with migrant families, members and leaderships of the groups, and their external supporters. The multisited field study shows that the accomplishment of the relations of domination can be captured by focusing on three scales of analysis : national (Brazilian and Japanese contexts), sector-based (education, unionism and voluntary sector), situational (organizational dynamics in each sector). In this way, the thesis highlights the new boundaries of Japanese society and the reconfigurations of an imagined Brazilian community depending on the sites studied.

Individer med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning blir idag äldre än tidigare. Detta leder till att de utvecklar ett kombinerat omsorgsbehov utifrån intellektuell funktionsnedsättning och åldersproblematik. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur yrkesverksamma inom LSS-verksamhet förhåller sig till målgruppen och vilka möjligheter som finns att få sitt behov till­godosett utifrån både funktionsnedsättning och åldrande. Frågeställningarna berör vilka insatser som finns för att möta målgruppens behov av stöd och omsorg samt hur samverkan ser ut utifrån lagstiftning och organisation. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ metod där det empiriska materialet har insamlats genom intervjuer med utgångspunkt i en halvstruk­turerad intervjuguide. Resultatet har analyserat utifrån intersektionellt perspektiv. Resultatet visade att det finns en gemensam syn på målgruppen och dess omsorgsbehov men att det saknas riktlinjer och kunskap om vilka alternativ som står till förfogande. Vidare framkom att det finns individer som kan vara aktuella för insatser genom både LSS och äldreomsorgen men att lagstiftningens uppdelning kan utgöra hinder för att utveckla insatsmodeller som till­godoser individernas kombinerade omsorgsbehov. Detta leder till slutsatsen att det inom lag­stiftningarna LSS och SoL finns möjlighet att skapa lösningar för målgruppen genom individuella behovsprövningar samtidigt som målgruppens tillhörighet till LSS kan begränsa möjlighet till insatser via annan lagstiftning. Utmaningen ligger i att skapa samverkan och samsyn mellan LSS och äldreomsorgen och utveckla insatser som tillgodoser målgruppens kombinerade behov.

Syftet med följande uppsats är att genomföra en intersektionell analys av några av Bruce Springsteens låttexter skrivna under perioden 1978-1984. Avsikten är att undersöka hur maktstrukturer uppkommer beroende av kön, sexualitet, klass och etnicitet. Vidare är målet att diskutera hur man kan arbeta med Springsteens texter i gymnasieskolans svenskämne. Materialet som används är de låttexter under nämnda period som bäst belyser hur maktstrukturer uppkommer. I texterna finns makt och inflytande i samhället till största del hos männen. Eftersom Springsteen av media betecknas som en företrädare för den vanliga människan är deltagandet i arbetslivet trots det inte till för alla. Maktstrukturer beror också på att människor berövas möjligheten att tala samt familjestrukturer.