Johanna Esseveld

• Professor
• Professor emerita at Lund University

Genom exemplet tidsbegränsad anställning — en anställningsform speciellt vanlig bland kvinnor — analyserar artikelförfattarna den svenska välfärdsstaten. De hävdar att visserligen har den bidragit till positiva förändringar i den könsliga arbetsdelningen, men att männens dominans i grunden är orubbad.

The artide "Missing female subjects. An analysis of medical texts about menopause" focuses on medical discourses about women and middle age. More concretely, it presents an analysis of artides in Läkartidningen from 1990 through 2001. Läkartidningen is the official journal of the Swedish Medical Association and has a distribution of nearly 30 000 c...

A number of social scientists (see for example, Allen et al., 1986; Brown, 1984; Purcell, 1985; Purcell et al., 1986; Roberts et al., 1985) have drawn attention to the way in which patterns of working have changed radically in recent years suggesting that we need to rethink and reconceptualise with regard to work, employment and unemployment. This...

To investigate the association between attitudes toward hormone therapy (HT) and use of it and explanatory factors for the association found. All women in two primary healthcare districts aged 45, 50, 55 or 60 in 2000 or 2001 (n=771) received a questionnaire consisting of quality-of-life instruments and items concerning menopause, health, healthcar...

Women's experiences and ideas about the climacteric are not in accord with the biomedical model, in which the climacteric and the menopause are characterized as being a risk factor for various diseases and a cause of "estrogen deficiency", a hormonal disease which is assumed to persist during the rest of life. The biomedical model may lead to medic...

This chapter focuses on the interrelations between work, career and family. It emphasises the gendered and contextual nature of these interrelations. At a theoretical level, the concept of career is scrutinised and an alternative concept of career life-form is introduced. At an empirical level, the differences between male and female top leaders in...

In this chapter we want to explore how the cultural discourse on gender affects gender construction and the ways in which it differentiates the male and female top leaders included in our study. More concretely, we will look at the extent to which a series of statements on women and men position the two groups of leaders differently within two type...