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Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Meaning of Male Beach Worker-Female Tourist Relationships on the Kenyan Coast
2017
<p>Knowledge and research on sexual-economic relationships between local men and Western female tourists in different touristic locations around the world has grown, as has public interest and awareness of the phenomenon. However, the direct perspectives of the men whose lives constitute the focus of such studies remain scarce. This has resulted in the phenomenon being understood mainly and inadequately through the concepts of 'romance tourism' and 'female sex tourism'. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Kenya's South Coast region, this article foregrounds the voices of male beach workers and the meanings they assign to these relationships, against a backdrop of the histori…
Household skills and low wages
2008
Originally published in the journal Journal of Population Economics, Springer http://www.springerlink.com/content/100520/ Household skills provide job skills when tasks in jobs and household production are similar and jobs produce substitutes for home-made services. Opportunity costs of higher education are foregone earnings during schooling and foregone household production while studying and later in life. I show that individuals in jobs requiring household skills accept lower wage rates than traditional human capital theory predicts, and that individuals with low household skills tend to enter higher education. According to these results, declining household skills may have contributed t…
La conquista è un sostantivo femminile. Donne e avventura coloniale dell'Italia liberale del Corno d'Africa
2016
Tra gli aspetti maggiormente e volutamente rimossi della nostra avventura coloniale, c’è quello che riguarda il coinvolgimento e il ruolo delle donne nell’avventura coloniale nonché l’atteggiamento adottato dagli Italiani (di entrambi i sessi) nei confronti delle donne colonizzate. Se le donne italiane dapprima escluse furono, in un secondo momento, invitate ad esportare oltremare i valori della famiglia, propaganda di Stato, fotografia, canzoni, pubblicità, realizzazioni filmiche, letteratura e pretesi discorsi scientifici hanno veicolato, dal canto loro, dapprima una retorica di genere che ha mercificato la donna indigena come preda sessuale, e, in un secondo momento, l’ha demonizzata rov…
Libertà dalle donne, libertà delle donne nella Grecia classica
2017
Ipotesi di ricerca sulla nozione di libertà nella Grecia antica analizzata con le categorie del genere
Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret
2018
Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored the individual’s personal motivations and experiences of her action and choice with regards to aesthetic surgery. By focusing on subjective experience, alternative insights can be gained on the cosmetic procedure(s) and on how their reshaped body influences an individual’s lifeworld experience. The article explores the perceived benefits and consequences of reshaping, enhancing, and/or reducing a perceived flaw or shortcoming of the body. From this exploration the focus…
Women, translation and censorship in the Franco Regime
2011
This article presents a descriptive study of the incidence of censorship in the translation into Spanish of Larry McMurtry’s opera prima Horseman, Pass By. The novel was translated during Fraga Iribarne’s term of office at the Ministry of Information and Tourism (1962-1969), a period when the incidence of censorship for the Western genre was at its lowest for the dictatorship. Framed within the temporal borders of the Franco’s dictatorship, the study investigates the translation techniques used by Ana M.ª de la Fuente when translating violence against women in the discourse of this contemporary Western. The use of violence was one of the censorship criteria followed by the government’s offi…
The (care) robot in science fiction: A monster or a tool for the future?
2016
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The EU as a global actor Is the EU diffusing norms in third countries through NGOs?
2015
Master thesis Public Policy and Management- University of Agder, 2015 The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the role of the European Union as a global actor and as promoter of gender equality in third countries. The thesis consists of a case study of the relation between the EU and a Mexican NGO, where I am trying to determine its effect on the formulation of public policies protecting women’s rights. To analyze the case study I benefit from the role theory, normative power and interregionalism. The findings of the study suggest that the EU is employing instruments such as political dialogue together with the principle of conditionality in order to spread ideas, norms and values. Furthe…
Flerkulturelle kvinner i arbeidslivet
2015
Masteroppgave velferdsstudier- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 I denne masteroppgaven retter jeg søkelyset mot kvinner med ikke vestlig bakgrunn som har fullført introduksjonsprogrammet for minst 3-5 år siden. Masteroppgaven handler om flerkulturelle kvinner i arbeidslivet. Jeg tar opp temaer som har vist seg viktige for å forstå flerkulturelle kvinners situasjon på det norske arbeidsmarkedet. Hovedårsaken til at jeg har valgt å konsentrere meg om flerkulturelle kvinner er at det er disse som kommer dårligst ut på arbeidsmarkedsstatistikken. De er i mye større grad enn norske og nordiske kvinner arbeidsledige, og de er overrepresentert innenfor renhold og hotell- og restaurantvirksomhet. Min ho…
Sykefravær og arbeidsbelastning Kombinasjon av yrketsaktivitet og husholdet: kjønnsforskjeller og tidsbruk
2015
Masteroppgave velferdsfag- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Denne oppgaven omfatter en kvantitativ studie av sammenhengen mellom arbeidsbelastninger og sykefraværet. Anvendt data er Livsløp, Generasjon og Kjønn (LOGG)1. Det undersøkes for fire belastninger i jobben, hovedansvar for seks husholdarbeids oppgaver, og en kombinasjon av lønnet og ulønnet arbeid. Videre ses det på forskjellen mellom kvinner og menn, og tidsbruk i hjemmet. Oppgavens sentrale problemstilling er: Hvilken betydning har arbeidsbelastninger for sykefraværet? Dette har gitt grunnlag for å dele inn i fire hypoteser. Der jeg ser på betydningen av arbeidsbelastninger i jobben, begrenset til: stress, ubekvem arbeidstid, lite var…