The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of womanhood in relation to the Swedish fäbod culture at the turn of the 20th century. The study is based upon a questionnaire from 1928 and the material is collected from the archives at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Uppsala. Drawing upon gender and ritual theories, the study intends to gain an understanding for what it meant to be a woman of the fäbod by examining how fäbod herdswomen were culturally shaped and initiated into women both in relation to their place in the fäbod community of herdswomen, but also in respect to the wider community and society of which they were a part of. The main conclusion of the study is that the journey int...
Farming women have between the year 1950 and the present time had to fight hard to participate in th...
In this research, the women ideals, during the 1930s have been studied based on the content of two w...
This thesis deals with aspects of femininty and masculinity in Greenwich Villages folk music movemen...
The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of womanhood in relation to the Swedish fäbod cu...
This study examines stories from the 1800s about the Swedish folklore creature Näcken with the purpo...
This thesis concerns gender issues based on 103 interviews with women from the northernmost borderla...
The purpose of this study was to find out whether young women´s conceptions on femininity are based ...
The purpose of this study has been to investigate how female Swedish Finns reflect upon their social...
This dissertation deals with 199 gender related proverbs that were collected in northern Sweden and ...
Forward, march! – a ethnografic study of girls gender and identity construction in the stable cultur...
The aim of this study is, using the Swedish expression “kulturtant” (cultured lady) as starting poin...
This dissertation’s overall purpose has been to achieve an increased understanding of why women’s in...
This is a study of a group of Swedish travellers, and of the traveller community, a marginalized gro...
This is a study of sex/gender relations and everyday life in Kiruna - a mining town in the north of ...
The history of women education has been structured by two powerful narratives. The first of these is...
Farming women have between the year 1950 and the present time had to fight hard to participate in th...
In this research, the women ideals, during the 1930s have been studied based on the content of two w...
This thesis deals with aspects of femininty and masculinity in Greenwich Villages folk music movemen...
The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of womanhood in relation to the Swedish fäbod cu...
This study examines stories from the 1800s about the Swedish folklore creature Näcken with the purpo...
This thesis concerns gender issues based on 103 interviews with women from the northernmost borderla...
The purpose of this study was to find out whether young women´s conceptions on femininity are based ...
The purpose of this study has been to investigate how female Swedish Finns reflect upon their social...
This dissertation deals with 199 gender related proverbs that were collected in northern Sweden and ...
Forward, march! – a ethnografic study of girls gender and identity construction in the stable cultur...
The aim of this study is, using the Swedish expression “kulturtant” (cultured lady) as starting poin...
This dissertation’s overall purpose has been to achieve an increased understanding of why women’s in...
This is a study of a group of Swedish travellers, and of the traveller community, a marginalized gro...
This is a study of sex/gender relations and everyday life in Kiruna - a mining town in the north of ...
The history of women education has been structured by two powerful narratives. The first of these is...
Farming women have between the year 1950 and the present time had to fight hard to participate in th...
In this research, the women ideals, during the 1930s have been studied based on the content of two w...
This thesis deals with aspects of femininty and masculinity in Greenwich Villages folk music movemen...