Essays about: "homemaking"
Found 3 essays containing the word homemaking.
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1. Bathing into Belonging: An Exploration of International Students' encounters at the Swedish Sauna
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of Swedish sauna practices as experienced by international students at Lund University. The research objective is to navigate experiences of belonging and community formation that occur in the sauna, but also highlights how experiences of outsiderness and exclusion come to the fore in this highly sensorial environment. READ MORE
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2. Powering homemaking : everyday domestic life in times of rising energy prices
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Recent research in both geography and in neighbouring disciplines argues that we need to pay more attention to the cultural and symbolic significance of home in order to understand domestic energy consumption. In this thesis I consider how ideals of home are renegotiated in times of increase energy prices. READ MORE
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3. Homemaking Mothers and Their Children: Maternal Labour Force Participation and its Relation to Labour Market Outcomes in Sweden
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This study examines whether differences in working hours, earnings, education, and family formation among Swedish children born in the 1950s is related to maternal labour force participation. In contrast to empirical evidence within this field from other countries, the results indicate that maternal labour force participation plays little role for labour market success in Sweden. READ MORE
