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1	Motherhood, Survival Strategies and Empowering Experiences Selvarajah-Martinsson, Maria January 2008 (has links) <p>This thesis is based on material gathered during a field study in rural Sri Lanka, a Minor Field Study, (MFS) during April-May 2007. The core of the thesis deals with conceptualisations of empowerment and how they can be interpreted contextually from the perspectives of motherhood. The interplay of gender discourses with structural dimensions are analysed to see how these work to uphold ideals whilst posing contrary demands on mothers. Part of the focus has thus been to look at how discourses are adhered, aligned and adjusted to in various ways as strategies for survival in the context of poverty and marginalisation. The way social constructions perpetuate asymmetrical power relations as natural and normative is also discussed since this is central to how gender discourses are produced, upheld and reproduced. This study initiates in the every day experiences of mothers living in absolute poverty. Through narratives and participatory observations of their daily experiences contextual discourses, structural dimensions and agency are analysed. Their experiences are viewed as interconnected with the wider perspectives of political, economic and social conditions locally and globally. Analysis of these experiences against contextual discourses and structural implications attempts to identify possibilities and potential for empowerment. By raising central issues to the mothers regarding segregation, marginalisation and vulnerability, a more contextual understanding of how empowerment is constrained and facilitated is hopefully achieved. Furthermore, how women in this study respond and relate to these issues and whether empowering experiences can be traced even where overt challenges are absent. Finally, the thesis addresses the complexity of carrying out a study of this kind, where the prerogative to define and conceptualise lies with the researcher, the beholder, representing through this very role inequity in the division of power and privilege.</p> Gender gender discourses empowerment poverty Sri Lanka
2	Motherhood, Survival Strategies and Empowering Experiences Selvarajah-Martinsson, Maria January 2008 (has links) This thesis is based on material gathered during a field study in rural Sri Lanka, a Minor Field Study, (MFS) during April-May 2007. The core of the thesis deals with conceptualisations of empowerment and how they can be interpreted contextually from the perspectives of motherhood. The interplay of gender discourses with structural dimensions are analysed to see how these work to uphold ideals whilst posing contrary demands on mothers. Part of the focus has thus been to look at how discourses are adhered, aligned and adjusted to in various ways as strategies for survival in the context of poverty and marginalisation. The way social constructions perpetuate asymmetrical power relations as natural and normative is also discussed since this is central to how gender discourses are produced, upheld and reproduced. This study initiates in the every day experiences of mothers living in absolute poverty. Through narratives and participatory observations of their daily experiences contextual discourses, structural dimensions and agency are analysed. Their experiences are viewed as interconnected with the wider perspectives of political, economic and social conditions locally and globally. Analysis of these experiences against contextual discourses and structural implications attempts to identify possibilities and potential for empowerment. By raising central issues to the mothers regarding segregation, marginalisation and vulnerability, a more contextual understanding of how empowerment is constrained and facilitated is hopefully achieved. Furthermore, how women in this study respond and relate to these issues and whether empowering experiences can be traced even where overt challenges are absent. Finally, the thesis addresses the complexity of carrying out a study of this kind, where the prerogative to define and conceptualise lies with the researcher, the beholder, representing through this very role inequity in the division of power and privilege. Gender gender discourses empowerment poverty Sri Lanka
3	Querida ensina: preceitos de comportamentos femininos em páginas da revista Querida (1958-1968) / Querida teaches: precepts of female behaviors in pages of the Querida Magazine (1958-1968) Salermo, Laura Peretto 15 December 2009 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:35:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Laura.pdf: 5291976 bytes, checksum: abc6a97d53c823e6d5deb658b8001980 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper aims to try to recognize and analyse which ways of behaviour were presented by the speeches in significant spaces of the journal, such as stories, Right and Wrong in Little Things column, letter pages and advertisements of Querida magazines (1958-1968). It is looked to understand, still, which representations of a time these speeches, conveyed in the pages of the selected magazines, echoed. The fountains of this research are composed by 31 volumes of the Querida magazine with examples that represent the years between 1958 and 1968. The present research looks to present a little of the context in which the analysed magazine was inserted, trying to show a possible "place" for the Querida's reader, as well as the importance of the women magazines for this woman at this given place and historical moment. From this, the research privileges to show aspects of the magazine trajectory: its appearance, production, circulation, emphasizing the educative power of this type of press. It is also necessary to look for what the Querida magazine made circulate between his readers, and, that way, what imaginary and behaviors it contributed to create. To achieve this research there was a dialogue with the theoretical assumptions of Cultural Studies in Education and Cultural History, interfaced with gender discourses in printed media / Este trabalho tem como objetivo procurar reconhecer e analisar modos de comportamento que circulavam nos discursos presentes em espaços significativos do periódico, tais como contos, coluna Certo e Errado nas Pequenas Coisas, seções de cartas, e propagandas das Revistas Querida (1958-1968). Busca-se compreender, ainda, que representações de uma época estes discursos, veiculados nas páginas das revistas selecionadas, ecoaram. As fontes da pesquisa são compostas por 31 volumes da Revista Querida com exemplares que representam os anos compreendidos entre 1958 e 1968. A presente pesquisa busca apresentar um pouco do contexto em que o periódico analisado estava inserido, procurando evidenciar um possível ―lugar‖ da mulher leitora de Querida, bem como a importância das revistas femininas para esta mulher neste dado lugar e momento histórico. A partir disto privilegia-se fazer uma breve caracterização acerca da revista: surgimento, produção, editora, circulação, enfatizando o poder educativo deste tipo de impresso. Deste modo faz-se necessário buscar perceber o que a revista Querida fez circular entre suas leitoras e, assim, que imaginários e comportamentos contribuiu para criar. Para a consecução deste trabalho foi realizado um diálogo teórico com os pressupostos dos Estudos Culturais em Educação e da História Cultural, em interface com os discursos de gênero em mídia impressa Educação feminina História da educação Revistas Discursos de gênero Civilidades Educação feminina Publicações seriadas Periódicos Mulheres Women education History of education Printed media Gender discourses Civilities CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
4	Min granne barndomen, hur var det nu igen? : Om barndomsdiskurser i Min granne Totoro Fredriksson, Joel January 2022 (has links) In this study, the Japanese animated film My Neighbor Totoro was analyzed with regards to what childhood discourses can be found in it, and why these discourses in particular appear. To do this, discourse theory was used as the main theoretical basis, and certain aspects of hermeneutics were also used, such as combining the hermeneutic spiral with basic film analysis as a method. The childhood discourses that are discussed are the natural child, adult children and child adults, the competent child, the vulnerable child, postmodern childhood, the lonely/psychological child, and gender discourses. First, the life context of Hayao Miyazaki was examined to see what childhood discourses that might have influenced him. The natural child seems to be the most prominent discourse throughout Miyazaki’s life and his previous work, and the discourse appears in My Neighbor Totoro as well. However, so do all the other discourses. The results are that the view of childhood expressed in the film is that children develop the best in proximity to nature and the divine. Children should aspire to become competent adults, but adults should also come closer to childhood and nature. Postmodernity is dismissed as bad for children, and the natural childhood is deemed to be in need of saving. Children are also according to the film beings capable of complex thoughts and feelings relating to fears, death and family relations. These difficult thoughts are dealt with by their imagination – an imagination that is non-separable from their reality. This could indicate another childhood discourse: the imaginative child. Apart from all this, ways to use films like this one in education are also briefly discussed through film pedagogy. / <p>Slutgiltigt godkännandedatum: 2022-01-14</p> Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli film analysis discourse theory discourse analysis film pedagogy childhood discourses the natural child the competent child the vulnerable child postmodern childhood the lonely child the psychological child gender discourses adult children child adults the imaginative child Heidi Anne of Green Gables Moomin Pippi Longstocking shintoism filmanalys diskursteori diskursanalys filmpedagogik det naturliga barnet det kompetenta barnet det bräckliga barnet postmodern barndom det psykologiska barnet det ensamma barnet genusdiskurser vuxenbarn barnvuxna det fantasifulla barnet Anne på Grönkulla Mumin Pippi Långstrump General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap

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