Essays about: "feminist writers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words feminist writers.

1. 1. Theorizing & (re)discovering the Self : An autoethnographic & affect-theoretical approach to swedishness & colombianness

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Daniela Rodriguez Alvarez; [2022]
   Keywords : affect theory; the self; identity; temporality; colombianness; swedishness; migrant; creative writing; writing from the flesh; WOC feminism; haunting; representation; shame; depression; autoethnography; brown commons; disidentification; translanguaging; writing and theorizing as healing;

   Abstract : This thesis is structured as a feminist creative endeavour, a practice of self-love that aims at exploring (my) depression as a cultural and social phenomenon caused mainly by an inability to correctly embody swedishness, a constant haunting of a colonial and Colombian past, and the affective dimensions of language. This text is based on autoethnographic material about the experiences of being a Colombian-born migrant in Sweden and uses mainly affect theory and decolonial theory to make sense of these experiences. READ MORE

3. 2. Screenwriter and Character Gender in a 2020 Body of Swedish Feature Film Proposals

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

   Author : Johanna Koljonen; [2022]
   Keywords : screenwriting; script development; gender; feature film screenwriting; feminist media studies;

   Abstract : This study of correlations between screenwriter and character gender is based on a 2020 body of 369 Swedish feature fiction film proposals by 380 individual writers, submitted to the Swedish national broadcasting corporation Sveriges Television (SVT) specifically for development funding for screenwriting. Results are compared both with similar data from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI), which is the national funding body, as well as with SFI’s statistics of Swedish films receiving selective or market support. READ MORE

4. 3. Irish Women : being both mothers and wives

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Jenny Martinsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Irish Women; Edna O´Brien; Marian Keyes; Female writers; Gender roles; outspoken language; feminism; feminist actions; mothers; wives; Ireland; sexuality; daughters; love; women’s rights.;

   Abstract : Edna O'Brien and Marian Keyes are two sexually candid female writers. They are both from Ireland and their novels have caused many spectacular headlines over the years. These female authors have been greatly acclaimed, but also sharply criticised for their outspoken way of writing. READ MORE

5. 4. Gender Representation in Tennis: Research on British Newspaper Coverage of Wimbledon

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

   Author : Vitor Fernandez; [2018]
   Keywords : gender; sports; tennis; media; representation; corpus linguistics;

   Abstract : Throughout the history of society, women have fought hard to have equal rights in relation to men in all aspects of life. This demand for equality goes on until today and even thoughfeminists around the world have made progress in relations to right to vote, to hold politicaloffices and equal salary there are still advances to be made. READ MORE

6. 5. Space pregnancies : putting the other in the mother

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Lina Johansson; [2016]
   Keywords : mother; pregnant body; pregnancy; feminism; science fiction; motherhood; other; otherness; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Science fiction and feminist theory have a lot in common. They are both grounded in contemporary times, but envisions another. This essay looks at how women writers have used science fiction to talk about central themes in feminism, namely motherhood and pregnancy. These two are interesting because they are experiences based in the cis-female body. READ MORE