Essays about: "Emancipation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 74 essays containing the word Emancipation.

  1. 1. She Can Go Where She Will : Representations of Female Bicyclists in Late 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Literature by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Anna Gustafsson; [2024]
    Keywords : bicycling women characters; late 19th-century and early 20th-century British and American literature; freedom; emancipation; feminism; gender; the New Woman; cyklande kvinnliga karaktärer; sen 1800-tals- och tidig 1900-talslitteratur från Storbritannien och USA; frihet; frigörelse; feminism; genus; the New Woman;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate how representations of bicycling women in literary works by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell express mental and physical freedoms that had previously been denied women due to archaic societal norms. READ MORE

  2. 2. History, Progress, Morality : An Inquiry on the Metaethics of Moral Progress

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Jacob Gustavsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Philosophy; Moral Progress; Metaethics; Moral Relativism; Moral Realism; Moral Convictions; Moral Skepticism;

    Abstract : In this essay, I examine the interplay between history, progress, and morality, as it is discussed explicitly or implicitly in the metaethical literature. At first sight, it is perhaps intuitive that these three are necessarily intertwined and mutually dependent, as if they were casually connected. READ MORE

  3. 3. Wild cimarrones: Cuban maroon ecology in the first half of the 19th century and the corporeal rift

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : José Ernesto Urrusti Frenk; [2023]
    Keywords : Cuban marronage; maroons; wilderness; corporeal rift; metabolic rift; biogeocenosis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Analyses of enslaved labor and marronage in the Caribbean and beyond abound. As insightful and important as many of these works have been, they have often overlooked the ecological dimension of the maroons’ struggle for their liberation, the relationship between nature and the political struggle for emancipation. READ MORE

  4. 4. Transformation through Play: Examining the Role of Theatre of the Oppressed on Empowerment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Piotr Siwek; [2023]
    Keywords : Empowerment; Theatre of the Oppressed; Agency; Emancipation; Participation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite having been established since the 1970s as a school of theatre promoting a method of emancipation through facilitating communication about unequal power structures, Theatre of the Oppressed has not had not yet been comprehensively researched in terms of its emancipatory qualities. This paper examines a plethora of studies describing effective use of Theatre of the Oppressed while highlighting their reference to empowerment. READ MORE

  5. 5. Shattering the second glass ceiling:Interpreting the lived experiences of Female Entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria, using Schlossberg’s Transition Theory.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Abosede Amusan; [2023]
    Keywords : Glass Ceiling; Transition Theory; Corporate Employment; Entrepreneurs; Female Entrepreneurs; Business Owners; Nigerian Society; Storytelling; Women Empowerment; and Emancipation; Challenges.;

    Abstract : Abstract Introduction: This study examined the lived experiences of Female Entrepreneurs in Lagos State, Nigeria, who transitioned from traditional corporate employment settings to venture into uncharted entrepreneurial territory. In their transition from employee to entrepreneur, this study identified the existence of glass ceiling in both phases. READ MORE