Essays about: "Elizabeth Grosz"

Found 3 essays containing the words Elizabeth Grosz.

  1. 1. A little story about big issues : an introspective account of FEMEN

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yelena Myshko; [2018]
    Keywords : FEMEN; Yelena Myshko; sextremism; embodiment; feminist activism; feminist snap; feminist polemic; body image; militant feminism; sweaty concept; autophenomenography; autoethnography; feminist writing; evocative storytelling; retrospective diary; dialogic meaning; censorship; national politics; police persecution; generational feminism; Resistance; protest technology; Ukraine; Netherlands; Sara Ahmed; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Elizabeth Grosz; Mikhail Bakhtin; Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson; Carolyn Ellis; Laurel Richardson; Rosemarie Buikema; Marta Zarzycka; Steven Pressfield;

    Abstract : This research contributes a detailed personal account of a FEMEN activist. It presents an autophenomenographic analysis of cultural artefacts, including a Retrospective Diary, resulting from the activity of Yelena Myshko in FEMEN between 2012 and 2014. READ MORE

  3. 2. Natureculture Origined : An intersectional feminist study of notions of the natural, the healthy and the Palaeolithic past in the popular science imaginary of biomechanics

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Åsa Johansson; [2015]
    Keywords : gender; class; corporeality; intersectionality; feminist cultural studies; biomechanics; popular science;

    Abstract : Situated in a time of advanced technoscience and new materialist feminist humanities/social sciences, this thesis explores how popular science renditions of biomechanics contribute to transforming imaginaries about “the natural” and “healthy”. It does so by zooming in on biomechanical scientist Katy Bowman’s pervasive and life-style commitment-requiring teaching. READ MORE

  4. 3. I Think I Am Going Up, I Think I May Rise - Death and Rebirth in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2014]
    Keywords : Elena Ciobanu; Elizabeth Grosz; Erika Fischer-Lichte; Simone de Beauvoir; Christianity; mythology; Ariel; The Colossus and Other Poems; Sylvia Plath; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is a thematic analysis of two major themes in the poetry of Sylvia Plath: Death and rebirth. The idea is to look at selected poems by Plath without taking into account biographical data. The thesis investigates death as perfection, the act of dying and the performative aspect of rebirth. READ MORE