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  1. 21. Voluntary deregistrations among real estate agents

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Beata Thorslund; Nicole Åman; [2016]
    Keywords : Real estate agent; deregistrations; commission based salary; availability; internship; Fastighetsmäklare; avregistrering; provisionslön; tillgänglighet; praktik;

    Abstract : The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the main reasons why real estate brokers voluntarily choose to de-‐egister themselves after a short time in the profession and to come up with suggestions in order to prevent it. The sudy entails both a quantitative and a qualitative method. READ MORE

  3. 22. "Because It Hits you a Bit": Women, Social Change and Collective Trauma after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in Ukraine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Sofia Voytiv; [2014]
    Keywords : social change; collective trauma; women; post-Soviet Ukraine; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines social change and the collective trauma for women in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union by investigating general subjective wellbeing at the intersection of gender, generation and ethnicity. It argues that women had a special position during and after the Soviet regime due to the existing familialistic discourses both in the Soviet Union and independent Ukraine, and therefore experienced social change differently. READ MORE

  4. 23. Countering the Menstrual Mainstream A Study of the European Menstrual Countermovement

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Persdotter Josefin; [2013-11-11]
    Keywords : abjectfication; agential realism; autoethnography; autonetnography; Constructionism; Europe; essentialism; ethnography; feminism; hyper-personalisation; Menstrual Countermovement; menstrual; activism; menstruation; netnography; Post-Constructionism; political consumerism; queer feminism; social movement; women’s movement;

    Abstract : Introducing the term the ”Menstrual Countermovement”: the mass of actions, and agents that purposefully work towards challenging the repressive mainstream menstrual discourse of shame and silence, this research focuses on a spatiotemporal context previously unstudied: Europe, late 2000’s - early 2010‘s. The dual aim of the study is to contribute to a 1) diversification and broadening of the understanding of the movement as a whole, and (2) continuing the work of previous research further exploring the movement’s place within feminism. READ MORE

  5. 24. Life in Domination: Stay or Escape? What do Wives of Tajik Migrants Think and Do

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Natasa Plulikova; Iuliia Popova; [2013]
    Keywords : agency; Tajikistan; women; power structures; misrecognition; change; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis focuses on the perceptions and strategies of migrant’s wives in Tajikistan influenced by the male out-migration. We discuss how migrants’ wives view and bargain their positions in the family setting. READ MORE

  6. 25. GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND PLACE Contextualizing Gender and Social Background to the Private and Public livelihoods of African women in the Diaspora (Case study - Gothenburg, Sweden).

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Hadijah Mwenyango; [2012-11-27]
    Keywords : Gender; Roles; Public Private; African women; Sweden.;

    Abstract : Human beings in all societies are attributed to a gender that supposedly has/has not certain properties and with high identity-forming significance for the individual. Critical debates show that the magnitude and effect of gender symbolic construction, articulation as well as its dissemination differs for different groups of women depending on society and history. READ MORE