Essays about: "feminism intervention"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words feminism intervention.

  1. 6. Do Afghan women need saving? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Laura Bush’s representation of the women in Afghanistan

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Silke Møller; [2021]
    Keywords : ‘Embedded feminism’; Representation; Othering; Laura Bush; USA; Intervention; Afghanistan; CDA;

    Abstract : Do Afghan women need saving? This study focuses on the discourse of the USA’s First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush in the years (2001-2009) and how she represents the women in Afghanistan in the context of the USA-led intervention in Afghanistan. My aim is to understand how the USA intervention can be legitimized through Mrs. READ MORE

  3. 7. Imagining Somewheres: Obstruction as a Productive Force in Decolonial Visuality, Solidarities, and Asian American Futures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2018]
    Keywords : decoloniality; obstruction; radical hope; Asian American embodiment; virtual reality; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize and unintentionally other the depicted subjects. READ MORE

  4. 8. DEEPER. DEEPER, CLOSER, CLOSER : Between a language of inwardness and that of pure surface

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Channa Bianca Hjälmrud Hansén; [2017]
    Keywords : feminism; art; drawing; resistance;

    Abstract : The image of the female figure is present, yet she is in constant need of being produced in order to persist. Images of women are everywhere, but simultaneously she is nowhere near, caught up in hyper-(in)visibility. READ MORE

  5. 9. Practice what you preach- A Critical Discourse Analysis on Gender Implementation Issues of the UN

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sofia Rubertsson; [2014]
    Keywords : United Nations; Force Intervention Brigade; Feminist Security Studies; Gender Stereotypes; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This Bachelor thesis critically studies how women’s identities are constructed in resolutions put together by the United Nations. The thesis focuses on three Resolutions on Democratic Republic of the Congo, (RES/2053(2012))(RES/2098(2013) and (RES/2147(2014) in order to highlight how women are being portrayed in new mandates given to intervention forces. READ MORE

  6. 10. Gender Diversity and the City: Softly, Softly Feminism among London's Business Leaders

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Jane Webb; [2014]
    Keywords : gender diversity; policy; market feminism; interpellation; networks; branding;

    Abstract : In 2011, advisors to the British government recommended against introducing a quota for women to corporate boards in the UK. The advisors instead set an aim for the UK’s 100 largest companies. READ MORE