The purpose of this survey is to see how girls are portrayed in children’s literature from a gender perspective. The analysis is based on different specific features with the characters such as looks, stereotypical behaviour and interplay with other characters. The starting point of this analysis are the four children’s books Lisbet och Sambakungen by Emma Karinsdotter and Hanna Gustavsson, Nelly Rapp och de små under jorden by Martin Widmark and Christina Alvner, Hedvig och Hardemos prinsessa by Frida Nilsson and Dårfinkar och Dönickar by Ulf Stark. These four children’s books are in different ways norm breaking and are prominent within the school's activities. The study is based on how gender and equality looks in our society today. The analysis will also investigate girls’ and boys’ behaviour based on common stereotypical features. The results demonstrate that the children’s books are in different ways norm breaking and that girls are portrayed in varying ways. The results have also shown that a good working method for working with gender in teaching is reading aloud following with book discussions. / Syftet med undersökningen är att se hur flickor skildras i barnböcker ur ett genusperspektiv. Analyserna baseras på olika specifika drag hos karaktärerna så som utseende, stereotypa beteenden och samspel med andra karaktärer. Utgångspunkt för analysen är de fyra barnböckerna Lisbet och Sambakungen av Emma Karinsdotter och Hanna Gustavsson, Nelly Rapp och de små under jorden av Martin Widmark och Christina Alvner, Hedvig och Hardemos prinsessa av Frida Nilsson och Dårfinkar och Dönickar av Ulf Stark. Dessa fyra böcker är på olika sätt normbrytande och är framträdande inom skolans verksamhet.  Studien grundas på hur genus och jämställdhet ser ut i vårt samhälle idag. Analysen kommer även att undersöka flickor och pojkars beteende med utgångspunkt i vanligt förekommande stereotypa drag. Resultatet påvisar att barnböckerna på olika vis bryter mot normer och stereotyper samt att flickor skildras på varierande sätt. Resultatet har även visat att bra arbetssätt för att arbeta med genus i undervisning är högläsning som följs upp av boksamtal.

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In Natal and Zululand Swedish missions had precedence through the Church of Sweden Mission from 1876 on, the Swedish Holiness Mission from 1889 on, and the Scandinavian Independent Baptist Union from 1892 on. Between 1876 and 1902, thirty-six women were active in these South African missions. The history of all these women are explored on an individual basis in this, for the most part, empirical study. The primary goal of this dissertation is to find out who these women missionaries were, what they worked at, what positions they held toward the colonial/political situation in which they worked, and what positions they held in their respective missions. What meaning the women’s mission work had for the Zulu community in general, and for Zulu women in particular are dealt with, though the source material on it is limited. Nevertheless, through the source material from the Swedish female missionaries, Zulu women are given attention. The theoretical starting points come, above all, from historical research on women and gender and from historical mission research about missions as a part of the colonial period. Both married and unmarried women are defined as missionaries since both groups worked for the missions. In the Swedish Holiness Mission and in the Scandinavian Independent Baptist Union the first missionaries in Natal and Zululand were women. The Church of Sweden Mission was a Lutheran mission were women mostly worked in mission schools, homes for children and in a mission hospital. Women were subordinated in relationship to male missionaries. In the Swedish Holiness Mission and in the Scandinavian Independent Baptist Union women had more equal positions in their work. In these missions women could be responsible for mission stations, work as evangelists and preach the Gospel. The picture of the work of female missionaries has also been complicated and modified.