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The number of long-term international assignments as the most widespread approach of how global staffing is organized is increasing, although it becomes more difficult to attract suitable candidates due to their growing reluctance to relocate. Women in dual-career families (DCFs) as international expatriates are under-represented in the pool of international managers. They still remain responsible for the majority of home, family, and child-rearing duties, despite the pursuit of a career. As a result, during expatriation stressors in both work and family domains increase in numbers and intensity for women. As a result, the aim of the diploma thesis is to develop an understanding of DCFs issues in the international relocation context from the female expatriates point of view and to find out how female expatriates, being a part of dual-career families, arrange and coordinate career and family life during expatriation. The empirical research based on semi-standardized guided interviews shows that women try to remain a loving wife and a reliable childcare provider and to continue a career during expatriation. To achieve this goal, they rely considerably on emotional, instrumental, and informational support. The most valuable sources of support are husbands and children, social network and government in a host country, and organizations. ; submitted by Maria Peters ; Universität Linz, Diplomarbeit, 2021 ; (VLID)6110735

At the turn of the 21st century, the widely visible popularity of children's and young adult literature with adult readers lead literary critics and cultural commentators to ask whether the inhabitants of Western culture were refusing to grow up. Whilst books had been crossing over the line between the adult and children's book market ever since their separation had been introduced, the perceived rise in this traffic led to a felt crisis concerning age and identity. At the example of the Harry Potter and the Twilight novels, Maria Verena Peters analyzes the discourse about childhood, coming of age and adulthood inside and outside the pages of children's and young adult literature as the 20th century came to an end and a new millennium was beginning. Her analysis uncovers that this discourse was determined by an anxiety that without the patriarchal, heterosexual, nuclear family, age cannot serve to produce meaningful identity categories. In addition to the prominent two novel series of the title, the PhD thesis covers a wide range of popular culture artefacts, from Near Dark to the The Big Bang Theory and from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Hotter than my Daughter. It builds upon key findings of fan studies to paint a picture of the intersectionality of age, gender, class and consumption in the marketing, reception and critique of children's and young adult literature.