Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Inaug.-diss.--Leipzig. / Lebenslauf. "Geleitet hat mich ... bei der arbeit die praktischpolitische erkenntnis für unsere nationalsozialistische

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Auteursnaam op omslag: Letty Aarts. Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

This essay investigates discourses connected to menses amongst teenage girls in a Swedish context from a qualitative perspective. My ambition has been to show what is mentioned in a conversation amongst classmates on the topic menses. What was taken for granted, what was considered unnatural and when were verbal lines drawn? The methods used in order to meet the purpose and answer questions, were focusgroupinterviews and discourseanlysis. Three groups were constructed by the participants themselves and contains 13 individuals in total. The empirical material used consists of soundfiles from the interviews converted into text.As a theoretical framework for this study, I chose to use social constructivism, stigma and discourse. Included is also parts of Mary Douglas Purity and danger in order to offer aspects on bodily fluids, and menses in particular. The most important findings that can be concluded are connected to the institutionalized behavior surrounding control of menses through medication. All participants in the study were aware of and practiced control of their menses through contraceptive pills. The main purpose of using contraceptive pills for the majority of the participants, were linked to enabling a functional structure of their menses rather than protecting from pregnancies. Further, the participants described how they in certain social situation were unable to discuss or reveal their menses. These particular situations were defined similarly within each group, but varied between them. The groups also brought up how being connected to menses in general was not a source of shame. However, on an individual basis, keeping your menses to yourself was often depicted as a matter of showing social consideration.

Prostate cancer is one of the most prominent diseases in men’s health. It is inherently 'male', given the exclusivity of the prostate gland to men’s bodies and its physiological connection to testosterone and male sexuality. The biomedical complexities of prostate cancer continue to be unravelled and researched and are often connected to identifying causes, the virtues of screening and treatment modalities. However, despite the biological male 'sex' link, most of the prostate cancer research is not connected with research on gender relations, men and masculinities. The net outcome is that men’s lives and illness experiences are absent in much of the prostate cancer research. This PhD thesis Prostate cancer: Anglo-Australian heterosexual perspectives, is an ethnographic study of thirty-five Anglo-Australian men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Participants shared their experiences of living with prostate cancer in the context of health promotion, health services and in relation to their sexuality and intimate relationships. Through participant photographic novella and in-depth semi-structured interviews, rich cultural insights are provided. A social constructionist gender analysis is used in this research that shows how the social constructions of masculinity interconnect and occasionally collide with prostate cancer throughout the illness trajectory.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit.opg. en samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met bibliogr., lit. opg. - Met samenvattingen in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Universiteit Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Inaugural dissertation - Leipzig. / Vita. Bibliography: p. [7]-12.

Proefschrift Universiteit Maastricht. / Met bibliogr., lit. opg. - Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands.