Essays about: "abjection"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the word abjection.

  1. 11. Menstruation in news media : The impact of media discourses on the menstrual taboo in France

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Déborah Fusaro; [2016]
    Keywords : menstruation; patriarchy; menstrual blood; news media; abjection; activism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the news media can challenge a social construction when it covers an event related to a taboo. The main question guiding this thesis is how the news media discourses about the ‘tampon tax´ in France can challenge the menstrual taboo. READ MORE

  3. 12. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Andria Nyberg Forshage; [2015]
    Keywords : aesthetics; becoming; erasure; excessive object; feminine sublime; feminist aesthetics; literary theory; monstrosity; sublimity; transgender theory; trans women s writing; transmisogyny; unrepresentability;

    Abstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE

  4. 13. Where am I? Who am I? (Abjection and Negotiating Identity in Carin Mannheimer's "Sista Dansen")

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Deborah Fronko; [2014-02-17]
    Keywords : abject; abjection; other; revolt; the speaking subject; Theatre Studies;

    Abstract : Julia Kristeva’s lexicon of abjection, criticized by feminist philosophers for being trapped in a male/female polarity, is explored for its potential to generate analyses. What is meant by lexicon is the terminology, which is used with Kristeva’s definitions rather than definitions found in a common dictionary. READ MORE

  5. 14. Pastiche and Abjection in American Psycho

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Cristina Ghita; [2014]
    Keywords : postmodern; american psycho; pastiche; abjection;

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  6. 15. Pastiche and Abjection in American Psycho

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Cristina Ghita; [2014]
    Keywords : american psycho; pastiche; abjection; postmodernism; bret easton ellis;

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