Essays about: "INDIAN SEX ..."

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1. 1. Are Skewed Sex Ratios Impeding Female Empowerment in India? : A Study Looking at Violence and Violations in Indian Households

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Astrid Grube; Lindqvist Line; [2022]
   Keywords : Sex ratio; female empowerment; India; son preference; violence; missing women; demography;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the relationship between a skewed sex ratio and female empowerment in India. The study uses cross-sectional survey data from 2015-16, defining empowerment with an index that compiles questions directed toward women regarding if they have been subjected to violence and violations by their husbands or partners. READ MORE

3. 2. Right to be and act Queer? : A descriptive analysis of how Indian LGBTQI activists framed Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code in order to challenge it, preceding the 2018 Indian Supreme Court verdict to overrule the law

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Linn Sjöde; [2019]
   Keywords : India; LGBTQI activism; Section 377; Indian Penal Code; Frame Analysis;

   Abstract : This study aims to contribute to the under-researched area of LGBTQI activism in the ‘Global South’ by performing a case study of LGBTQI activism in India, a country that provides an intriguing setting in which a wide range of sexual expressions has developed over time with attitudes towards them varying alongside. Same-sex activities have since the 1860s been considered a penal offence under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code but in September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court overruled the law and decriminalized same-sex conduct. READ MORE

4. 3. Inbreeding decreases upwind pheromone : mediated male flight and frequency in female calling behavior in a lab culture of the pyraloid moth Plodia interpunctella

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för naturvetenskap

   Author : Per Heydorn; [2018]
   Keywords : Plodia interpunctella; Indian meal moth; lab culture; degeneration; inbreeding;

   Abstract : Semiochemicals are chemicals used to communicate. Animals tend to use these e.g. to locate food sources or to find a suitable mate. READ MORE

5. 4. Multi-physical Simulations of High Voltage Circuit Breakers

   University essay from KTH/Energiteknik

   Author : Julien POUILLY; [2017]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This report is the outcome of a 6-month Master’s Thesis carried out at General Electric Grid Solutions in Villeurbanne within the LTDT team in the Circuit Breaker and Bay Development (CB2D) department of the Apparatus Research Center (ARC). It presents both the innovative methodology adopted and the results obtained along the project. READ MORE

6. 5. "I expected a male reporter" : a qualitative interview-study of the Kerala working culture in media newsrooms

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Journalistik

   Author : Sofia Hermansson; [2017]
   Keywords : movements; femininity; embodiement; Gendered spaces; strategies; female empowerment; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is a qualitative interview-study of the working conditions for female journalists within an Indian and Keralan context focusing on the female body and spaces. The study takes place in the Keralan society focusing on how women journalists cope with working in a traditional male dominated area and how the female body somehow is seen as an invader in the journalism field, based on pre-assumptions on sex and gender and female placement. READ MORE