Essays about: "Housewife"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word Housewife.

  1. 1. Man(ners) Maketh Woman : An Analysis of Dutch Male-Authored Women’s Advice Literature

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Roxanne Lokin; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses Adriaan Loosjes’ De Vrouw in de Vier Tijdperken Haars Levens (’The Woman inthe Four Stages of her Life’) and Gozewijn de Greuve’s Wilhelmina, een Handboek voor het VrouwelijkeGeslacht (‘Wilhelmina, a Guide for the Female Sex’). These two works of male-authored adviceliterature for women in the early nineteenth-century Netherlands are analysed in order to researchthe construction of gender. READ MORE

  3. 2. Seeing Double : Rhythm, Domesticity, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson’s "The Renegade"

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Emma Wramsby; [2022]
    Keywords : Shirley Jackson; Jackson; The Renegade; short story; Lottery and Other Stories; postwar; uncanny; rhythm; rhythms; forms; Levine; domesticity; domestic; Friedan; feminine mystique;

    Abstract : By using the concept of forms in this analysis of “The Renegade,” postwar domestic life is analyzed for the uncanny. By locating repetitions in domestic life, between characters, and in speech, situations are identified where the uncanny moves into the domestic. As a result, the perception of reality of the protagonist, Mrs. READ MORE

  4. 3. Separatism and cooperation : Democratic participation, asset-building and narrative representations in  The Women’s Cooperative Society Swedish Homes, 1904-1916

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Anders Jacobson; [2021]
    Keywords : cooperation; separatism; separatist cooperation; cooperative movement; women’s cooperatives; Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem; Kooperativa Förbundet; feminism; de-alienation; reconstruction; intersectionality; alternative institutions; kooperation; kooperativ; separatism; separatistisk kooperation; kvinnokooperativ; Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem; Kooperativa Förbundet;

    Abstract : Within the context of economic history, this case study discusses “separatist cooperation” as an organizational and economic strategy for addressing multiple forms of alienation and inequality. Unique in the European cooperative movement at the time, The Women’s Cooperative Society Swedish Homes (Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem), active in Stockholm 1905-1916, is a case in point. READ MORE

  5. 4. Representation of Gender Roles, Femininity and Subject Positions in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills : Erika Girardi/Erika Jayne

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    Author : Natalie Soyege; Sofia Nilsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender Roles; Reality; Feminism; Femininity; Representation; Television;

    Abstract : This study is a discursive analysis of the representation of the person Erika Girardi within the Reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. With a theoretical perspective anchored within Judith Butler’s (1999) theory of performativity and Beverley Skeggs (2000) research of class within feminism. READ MORE

  6. 5. THE CONNECTION OF TURKISH “HOUSEWIVES” TO THE WORLD BY HANDMADE YARN PRODUCTS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Seyda Bagdogan; [2019]
    Keywords : Virtual etnography; knitting; Turkish women; housewife; YouTube; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study has aimed to understand the experiences of the Turkish women who share their knitting videos on YouTube through using the virtual ethnography conducted. The participant women mostly describe themselves as a “housewife” and/or specify their roles through association with domestic tasks, which is related to the position of assigned to many women by Turkish society. READ MORE