Dissertations
Dissertation database includes information on dissertations published in English in Finnish universities since the year 2020 in the fields of Women’s, Men’s and Gender Studies or covering other themes pertinent to gender equality.
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Kunwar, Jagat Bahadur (2021) Breaking free of the binary: Gender habitus, heteronormative domination, and classificatory struggles. Hanken School of Economics
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Anwar, Farida (2022) Victimisation of Women in Public Places: Sexual Harassment in Pakistan, Ghana, and Finland. Åbo Akademi University
Berthet, Valentine (2022) The Discursive Politics of Gendered Violence and Bodily Rights in the European Parliament. Tampere University
Darko, George (2020) Sex Differences in Aggression within Adult Samples in Ghana. Åbo Akademi University
Khan, Taalia (2021) Husbands and Mothers-in-law as Perpetrators of Domestic Aggression against Married Women in Pakistan. Åbo Akademi University
Kivelä, Salla (2020) The Documentation of Family Violence in Healthcare and the Associations of Violence on Well-being. Tampere University
Mojškerc, Nataša (2023) Racialisation in Domestic Violence Shelter Work: Autoethnographic Action Research. Tampere University
Viuhko, Minna (2020) Restricted agency, control and exploitation: understanding the agency of trafficked persons in the 21st-century Finland. University of Helsinki
Wanström, Sofia (2023) When the Dam Burst: Perspectives on Genre and Tellability in Testimonies of Rape. Åbo Akademi University
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Ala-Heikkilä, Virpi (2022) Evolving Role of Management Accountant – Dreaming of the Perfect Controller. University of Vaasa
Aman, Raushan (2024) Highly skilled migrant women entrepreneurs in the host country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. University of Oulu
Boateng, Kodwo Jonas Anson (2020) Challenges of Gendered Journalism: Exploring Work Life Experiences of Ghanaian Female Journalists. University of Jyväskylä
Franzén, Riikka (2021) The Construction of Entrepreneurial Opportunities - Focus on Women Entrepreneurs. University of Turku
Goby, Valerie Priscilla (2022) Emirati women’s liminal economic agency: Gendered space within modernity and tradition. University of Turku
Hyvönen, Henri (2021) Men, Work, and Care of the Self: Hybrid Masculinities in Finnish Working Life. University of Helsinki
Joensuu-Salo, Sanna (2020) Entrepreneurial intention, behavior and entrepreneurship education: A longitudinal approach. University of Vaasa
Khoda, Sher-E (2020) NGOs’ Capacity Building and Mission Drift: Commercialization of Microfinance Programs and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh. University of Jyväskylä
Kuhlman, Juulia (2024) Challenging the concept of active forest ownership : the perspective of women forest owners in Finland. University of Helsinki
Lamberg, Emma (2023) Becoming workers: How young women negotiate their imagined futures in the Finnish work society. University of Turku
Martikainen, Jari (2020) Visual Representations of Teachership: A Social Representations Approach. University of Eastern Finland
Räsänen, Tapio (2023) Empirical studies on family economics. University of Jyväskylä
Saarinen, Milla (2023) Uncovering the vulnerabilities of female student-athletes in the career construction framework. University of Jyväskylä
Zhao, Yue (2021) Factors Affecting the Career Development of Female Graphic Designers – A Mixed Methods Approach. University of Lapland
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Avdeeva, Anna (2020) Natural parenting in contemporary Russia: When 'nature' meets kinship. University of Helsinki
Carnicelli, Lauro (2024) Studies on labor force participation and paternity leave reforms. University of Helsinki
Ebot, Mathias (2022) Fatherhood and Fathering in Finnish-African Families: The Experiences of African Fathers. University of Eastern Finland
Kangas, Emilia (2020) Discourses of fatherhood in leadership and organisations. University of Jyväskylä
Nyby, Josefine (2020) Politicising Finnish family policy reform 2007–2017. Åbo Akademi
Raudasoja, Mirjam (2023) Transition to motherhood: childbirth experiences, psychological well-being, and discourses of childbirth and mothering. University of Jyväskylä
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Holm, Marja Eliisa (2020) Executive functions and achievement emotions among adolescents : mathematics difficulties, low mathematics performance, and special education support in mathematics. University of Helsinki
Kaleva, Satu (2023) Lost in transition? background factors to study field and STEM career interests of general upper secondary students. University of Oulu
Kylänpää, Vihtori (2022) Educating young adults to undertake actions for human rights: students at the Non-Military Service Center. University of Oulu
Kääpä, Mari (2022) Understanding and Promoting Physical Activity among Finnish Adolescent Girls: The Role of Active Physical Education Homework. University of Jyväskylä
Tunkkari, Mari (2022) Maternal homework involvement: links to adolescents’ task avoidance and academic achievement across the transition to lower secondary school. University of Jyväskylä
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Alasuutari, Varpu (2020) Death at the End of the Rainbow : Rethinking Queer Kinship, Rituals of Remembrance and the Finnish Culture of Death. University of Turku
Beiranvand, Amin (2024) Gendered Sexual Violence and Complicity: A Postcolonial Study of Selected Works by J. M. Coetzee. University of Turku
Eerolainen, Leena (2020) Scientific Masculinity and National Images in Japanese Speculative Cinema. University of Helsinki
Fransberg, Malin (2021) Helsinki Graffiti Subculture: Meanings of Control and Gender in the Aftermath of Zero Tolerance. Tampere University
Hekanaho, Laura (2020) Generic and Nonbinary Pronouns: Usage, Acceptability and Attitudes. University of Helsinki
Ishikawa, Motoko (2020) Media portrayals of ageing baby boomers in Japan and Finland. University of Helsinki
Karjalainen, Noora (2020) Woman, Artist, Other; Female Folk Singers in the Media. University of Jyväskylä
Karppinen-Kummunmäki, Henna (2020) Elite English girlhood in the eighteenth century. University of Turku
Kolehmainen, Tuula (2022) "Like Men They Stood": Black Male Vulnerability as Resistance to Stereotypes in Fiction Written by African American Women. University of Helsinki
Kosonen, Heidi (2020) Gendered and Contagious Suicide: Taboo and Biopower in Contemporary Anglophone Cinematic Representations of Self-Willed Death. University of Jyväskylä
Kukka, Silja (2022) Exploring desire : sexual and gender identities in fan fiction communities. University of Oulu
Käsmä, Marjukka (2020) Social difference as action: a nexus analysis of gender and ability in World of Warcraft game culture. University of Oulu
Ruotsalainen, Maria (2022) Overwatch esports and the (re)configurations of gender and nationality. University of Jyväskylä
Salam-Salmaoui, Rauha (2022) Constructing Gender Identities Multimodally: Young, Middle-Class Pakistanis on Facebook. University of Jyväskylä
Salminen, Janne (2022) Gender Narratives of Hollywood Legacy Blockbuster Franchises in the 2010. University of Helsinki
Seppänen, Hanneli (2022) On the Edge of Power: Chivalric Christianity and Arthurian Women in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. University of Helsinki
Stormbom, Charlotte (2021) Gendered language in flux: The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing. Åbo Akademi University
Timonen, Topi (2024) The Brothers and Sisters of the Ozu Family: Constructing Family Roles and Social Dynamics in the Post-War Films of Ozu Yasujirô 1947-1962. University of Turku
Tiusanen, Kaisa (2023) Nice Food, Good People: Technologies of subjectivity and class distinction in media texts about the right kind of food. Tampere University
Wang, Shuchen (2022) The Darker Side of Contemporary Art in China: Market, Politics, Gender. University of Jyväskylä
Wide, Carola (2024) "Oh, how frightened I was": The Kristevan feminine, narration, initiation, and intergeneration in contemporary ruddy-hooded heroines' transformation of fear-provoking cultural rape trauma. University of Jyväskylä
Åberg, Erica (2020) Keeping up appropriate appearances – Physical appearance, social norms and gender in Finland. University of Turku
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Alosaimi, Abdullah Nagi (2022) An Epidemiological Study of Women and Children’s Health in Yemen with Special Reference to Socioeconomic Determinants: Subnational household survey conducted in Yemen. Tampere University
Joensuu, Johanna (2023) Factors behind the childbirth experience - influence on future reproduction. University of Helsinki
Kraav, Siiri-Liisi (2022) Effects of loneliness and social isolation on mortality and morbidity in middle-aged men. University of Eastern Finland
Laiti, Minna (2024) Towards LGBTQ+ inclusive Junior High school nursing: Development of a theoretical model. University of Turku
Mesiäislehto, Virpi (2023) Sexual and reproductive health and rights through the lens of belonging : Intersectional perspectives on disability, gender, and adolescence in Tanzania. University of Jyväskylä
Niiranen, Anna (2020) "The Health and Happiness of the Expectant Mother": Constructions of Pregnancy and Childbirth in British Medical Writings, 1840–1902. University of Jyväskylä
Talvitie, Anna-Maija (2024) Quality of Life After Prostate Cancer Treatment : A mixed methods study exploring patients’ experiences of quality of life and its measurement. Tampere University
Valdur, Mari (2020) Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. University of Helsinki
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Dsilva, Keshia (2024) What issues, which women, whose solutions: a social representations approach to the content and reception of women's rights campaigns in India. University of Helsinki
Mikkonen, Marjukka (2023) Understanding Gender (In)Equality in Leadership Positions in Sport: A Multilevel Perspective. Tampere University
Niinivaara, Elina (2022) Carving out Possibilities : Refugee Background Young Men and Mundane Political Agency. Tampere University
Puhakka, Anna (2023) Resistances in online body positivity activism in Finland in the late 2010s. University of Jyväskylä
Talukdar, Imdadul Hague (2022) Sex Differences in Effective Political Participation among Elected People's Representatives of the Rural Local Governance Units, Union Parishads, of Bangladesh: Workplace and Sexual Harrassment, and Cultural Hurdles to Female Participation. Åbo Akademi University
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Ali, Ali (2023) Queer in Exile and Exile in Queer: Journeys for Asylum and Belonging across Borders and Norms. University of Helsinki
Huttunen, Aira (2022) Friction and bodily discomfort: transgender experiences of embodied knowledge and information practices. University of Oulu
Jansson, Patrik (2023) Enemies of My People: Gendered and Metaphorical Construction of Israelite Prophetic Groups in the Book of Ezekiel. University of Helsinki
Kangasluoma, Sohvi (2023) Understanding Arctic oil and gas: entanglements of gender, emotions and environment. University of Helsinki
Kauhanen, Iida (2023) Barriers to social justice in unaccompanied youth’s lives: feminist ethnography in institutional settings. University of Oulu
Kovanen, Heidi (2023) Beyond Ideals: Bioarchaeological Sex and Gender in the Iron Age Burials of the Southern Levant (ca. 1200-500 BCE). University of Helsinki
Lukinmaa, Pauliina (2022) LGBTIQ+ Activists in St Petersburg: Forming Practices, Identifying as Activists, and Creating Their Own Places. University of Eastern Finland
Petäjäniemi, Maria (2022) (Un)becoming an asylum seeker : nomadic research with men awaiting an asylum decision. University of Oulu
Schöneman, Katja von (2023) The Creation of Woman in Muslim and Jewish Interpretive Traditions: Deconstructing Patriarchy through Feminist Discourse Analysis. University of Helsinki
Sudenkaarne, Tiia (2021) Queering bioethics: a queer feminist framework for vulnerability and principles. University of Turku
Svanström, Maria (2021) Toward a Non-Hierarchical Expression of Difference: On the Work of Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero and Fanny Söderbäck. University of Helsinki
Verdu Sanmartin, Amalia (2020) Trapped in gender: understanding the concept of gender and its use in law. University of Turku
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