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Socioemotional factors may greatly contribute to the way a child learns and interacts with their environment. Early elementary school has proven to be a significant period of development for foundational reading skills. For children of color, specifically Latino students, there are few studies that examine the relationship between sociodemographic variables such as ethnicity and gender, with challenging behaviors such as inattention and hyperactivity. This interaction is evaluated using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) in order to gauge the impact on reading achievement. Additionally, these relationships are explored with a cohort of Latino students (n=89) to determine whether Latino children are adequately rated for the presentation of inattentive and or hyperactive behaviors. This study then explores these interactions further with a diverse cohort of Latino, Black, Asian, and White students (n=274) and aims to discuss the implications for educational outcomes and development. Of particular interest, is the exploration of the achievement gap between children of different backgrounds as early elementary school may provide a critical window of intervention. / 2023-05-29T00:00:00Z

This thesis investigates the notions of military masculinities in the gender training of the Nordic Centre of Gender in Military Operations (NCGM). Military masculinities are argued to create problematic gender norms that value men and devalue women. Therefore, there is a need to see if NCGM does reinforce or construct these gender norms into their training. The masculine norms are constructed as a dichotomy to the female norms, giving traits such as men being protectors and women the protected, and men being perpetrators and women being victims. The study is carried out through a qualitative text analysis of publications found on NCGM’s website. The analysis examines the extent of military masculine traits in their publications, and how these traits are depicted. The results show that NCGM is aware of the gender stereotypes of military masculinities, but they still do depict men and women in stereotypical feminine and masculine roles.

Prejudice against men may result in emotional distress, interpersonal conflict, and impairments in a man’s view-of-self. It can be a contributing factor for explaining increased substance use and suicide by men, as well as rates of violence against men. Awareness of the prejudices men may face allows clinicians to form better alliances with their clients by helping them understand the feelings and perspectives of men who experience various forms of prejudice. This dissertation begins with an overview of the general causes of prejudice and a summary of the mechanisms that maintain a prejudice’s social acceptability. It then provides a taxonomy of different forms of the prejudices men face, as well as the mechanisms that maintain the social acceptability of prejudice against men. Finally, it describes examples of prejudice against men, applying the taxonomy put forth in this dissertation.

Vi befinner oss idag i ett läge där det aldrig tidigare har varit så stor del av den svenska befolkningen som är sjuk av stress, och där just de unga kvinnorna står för den allra största ökningen (Sahlgrenska 2019). Trots att de unga kvinnorna är i tydlig majoritet i statistiken över stress och utmattning i Sverige, finns förhållandevis få studier om unga kvinnors stress och psykiska ohälsa utifrån ett genusvetenskapligt perspektiv (Wiklund, Strömbäck & Bengs 2013; Strömbäck 2014). Syftet med föreliggande uppsats har varit att skapa en djupare förståelse för unga kvinnors upplevelser av stress och utmattning i allmänhet, och potentiella förklaringar till varför stressen uppstår i synnerhet. För att uppnå det uppställda syftet har framställningarna av fyra unga kvinnor i Uppdrag gransknings dokumentärserie Sjukt stressad studerats. I serien får tittaren följa fyra unga kvinnor som alla blivit sjuka av stress. För att närma mig mitt material har jag använt mig av en tematisk analys så som den beskrivs av Braun och Clarke (2006), och för att förstå hur de unga kvinnornas upplevelser av stress uppkommer har ett temporalitetsperspektiv applicerats på materialet. Inom ett sådant perspektiv sätts individens position och kontext i fokus för de förväntningar och föreställningar som formar vad som för individen anses som ett lämpligt levnadsförlopp. Här har begrepp som livslinje, livsmanus och osamtidighet använts. I analysen framkom flera sådana förväntningar hos de unga kvinnorna. De unga kvinnorna verkar uppleva att de ska vara ständigt drivna och perfekta, omhändertagande och att alltid vara med, samt att vara effektiva och förvalta tiden på bästa möjliga vis. Uppsatsen avslutades med en diskussion om hur det här kan förstås utifrån den svenska jämställdhetsdiskursen, och hur kvinnor förväntas kunna göra allt det män kan, vilket ger upphov till möjligheter, men också stressande förväntningar.

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This study examines the Swedish Basketball Federations work with Strategy 2025 as a means for gender mainstreaming. The aim of this study was to examine how the Federation constructs gender equality within their organization and how that becomes evident in their daily work. The aim was also to investigate which opportunities and challenges emerges during this process. By analyzing project documents as well as other documents related to the organizations gender policy and interviews, the study investigates how the concept of gender equality is understood and implemented. The analysis of the material was inspired by Carol L. Bacchi’s method “What’s the problem represented to be?”. The method examines which problems are explicitly presented as well as what is left as ‘unproblematic’. This is meant to identify which and if there are any silences within the problem description. The study exposes a construction of gender equality based on quantitative measures and within a future perspective, as something that will be achieved over time. And through Strategy 2025 two dominant problem representations emerge. These problem representations are an unequal representation and a gendered view on coaches and recruitment. The results indicate that gender mainstreaming becomes an administrative routine as a result of gender equality being understood as a qualitative measure.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Biblical interpreters have often been unwittingly anthropocentric in their reading of biblical narratives, ignoring the living and nonliving presence of physical world characteristics that underpin the narrative’s overall framework. Moreover, with a focus on men, women’s role as water fetchers has been overlooked, resulting in the text’s dual undermining of ecological and gender issues. This thesis attempts to move away from such interpretations and reread selected biblical texts about water and women using a dual-mode of inquiry, namely gender-ecocriticism. A central question within ecocritical inquiry is—how is nature represented in the narrative? Furthermore, on the subject of gender criticism— how are daughters narrativized in the text? These are the two critical questions that this thesis intends to explore. There are only five explicit narratives of ‘daughters fetching water at the well’ in the Bible. Nevertheless, these scenic activities are significant because of their historical link to the waterfetching daughters in the contemporary world. This study draws attention to the gendering of the water-fetching task by a gender analysis of the five texts. To understand why only daughters are assigned the task of water-fetching, the study draws on theories of the sexual division of labour. The first theme I discuss in this dissertation is water symbolism as found in Judeo-Christian and contemporary stories of water and its interplay with current issues of water scarcity. The focus of the second part is the water-gender intersections found in those five narratives. These themes are explored in this thesis through an exegetical analysis of the five biblical water-drawing narratives. The interpretation is based on socio-historical analysis as well as literary analysis employing narratology and biblical hermeneutical methods. This dissertation concludes that water stories demonstrate that water is more than a symbol. The current water shortage crisis in some parts of the world directs our attention to the urgency of reconfiguring water in our religious and theological imaginations. Water becomes an intrinsic feature in the reader’s mind when read from a gender-ecocritical angle. Being appreciative of each physical element in the vast expanse of the ecosystem, allows a reader’s imagination to reflect on the global negative impact and the distortion of those valuable connections we as humans have with the rest of the physical world.

Syftet med denna studie är att få ökad kunskap kring hur lärares könsroller framträder i klassrum och i undervisning av manliga och kvinnliga lärare. Med en genusteoretisk utgångspunkt analyseras begreppen kön, könsroller och genus utifrån bland annat Butler (2007), Hirdman (2003) samt Connell (2006). Lärare utgör den centrala del i denna studie då den genomförs utifrån ett lärarperspektiv. Som metod har en enkätundersökning genomförts där över 200 lärare över hela Sverige deltagit samt observationer av två manliga lärare och två kvinnliga lärare som komplement, på fyra olika skolor i Skåne. Samtliga lärare undervisar huvudsakligen inom bildämnet. Resultatet i studien visar att samhällskonstruerade könsroller gjort och gör ett tydligt avtryck inom dagens skola. Även om flertalet lärare inom både observationer och enkätrespondenter är medvetna om de skillnader som kön medför uppenbarar sig samtidigt motsägande mönster. Resultatet indikerar även en skillnad mellan könen där manliga lärare visar en mer dominant roll medan de kvinnliga lärarna tar sig an en mammaroll. Studien avrundas med en diskussion följt av förslag till vidare forskning. Nyckelord: Bemötande, bildämnet, genus, genusordning, genussystem, kvinnligt, kön, könsroller, makt, maktsystem, manligt, skola, undervisning

This study explores the varied ways sexual minority organisations in Kenya negotiate their choices, decisions and actions when determining how, when, and why to be publicly visible or retreat from visibility. This they have to do in the context of the threats of retribution on the part of Kenyan state leaders to their efforts to protect sexual minority rights. Sexual minority organising carries the risk of verbal abuse and the threat of arrest and other retribution. In spite of this, sexual minorities have organised themselves into publicly visible social movement organisations over the last ten years. In addition to the hostility of the Kenyan state, these organisations operate within the context of the uneven situation with regard to the constraints or otherwise of organising as sexual minorities between the Global South and North. The situation is further complicated by the role of donors, who bring their own experiences and agendas from the Global North, not always appropriately, into African contexts. Amid such varied responses to sexual minority organising, how, when, and why do Kenyan social movement organizations become publicly visible or retreat from visibility? To recognise the various forces that influence (in)visibility choices that sexual minority organisations have to negotiate, I used sociologist James M. Jasper's (2006) concept of "strategic dilemma". Sexual minority social movement organisations field strategic dilemmas when they strategise around whether and how to become visible, modify their public profile, or forgo political opportunities. To understand the micro-political dynamics of how sexual minority social movement organisations negotiated such strategic dilemmas of visibility and invisibility, I analysed 200 newspaper articles and sexual minority organisational documents and conducted 12 in-depth interviews with staff, members and leaders of sexual minority social movement organisations. Ultimately the findings of this thesis centre on the fluidity of visibility and invisibility as was experienced by Kenyan sexual minority organisations. (ln)visibility was experienced in diverse ways as a process that included a series of steps that do not have absolute values nor are they necessarily coherent in different time and space. My findings advance social movement theorizing by demonstrating the importance of studying social movements in the global South. In addition, my findings contribute to postcolonial feminist and queer theorizing by showing how marginalised sexual and gender minorities in Kenya struggled strategically to assert their democratic inclusion in the state.