Essays about: "ladies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word ladies.

  1. 1. Embracing Precarity: Attending to Vulnerability and Negative Affects in E J-yong’s The Bacchus Lady

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

    Author : Joanne Lamming; [2022]
    Keywords : Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis attends to vulnerability and precarity within visual representation by analysing the negative affects bound to the experience of social exclusion. The study explores what it might mean to embrace and not overcome 'bad feelings' like shame and alienation using the visual example of an elderly prostitute–a ‘Bacchus Lady’– in E J-yong's 2016 film The Bacchus Lady. READ MORE

  3. 2. Texts and Paratexts in a Colonial Context. Krupabai Satthianadhan's English Novels 'Saguna' and 'Kamala'

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

    Author : Karin Edgardh; [2020-01-15]
    Keywords : India; Krupabai Satthianadhan; Saguna; Kamala; Gérard Genette; Autobiography; Conversion; Colonial literature;

    Abstract : The anglophone Indian author Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894) was a second-generation Christian convert and a member of the Christian Tamil family in colonial Madras. Knowledge of English was still a high-caste male privilege when Satthianadhan published reformist articles on female education. Her two novels, the autobiographical Saguna. READ MORE

  4. 3. “We Always Have to be the Nice Ones, be the Ladies”: A Postfeminist Analysis of how Sports Marketing Reflects Female Athletes’ Lived Experiences

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

    Author : Veronika Mirkovic; [2020]
    Keywords : media representations; sportswomen; gender; advertising; Nike; postfeminist critique;

    Abstract : Current debates about representations of female athletes in the media consist mainly of textual analyses research produced by scholars who observe the topic from different theoretical frameworks. To better comprehend the relation between women athletes and media’s representation of them, in particularly advertising, this thesis aims to converse with up-and-coming professional and collegiate sportswomen as a way to examine what kind of correlation, if any, there is between sports commercials’ portrayals of female athletes and their actual reality. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Woman Behind It All. Searching for Social Roles of Women in Late Iron Age Central Blekinge

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia

    Author : Antonia Hellstam; [2019]
    Keywords : Key words: warrior society; social role of women; cremation grave material; Beowulf; Lady with mead cup; Blekinge; Västra Vång; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : With the aim of widening the picture of a Late Iron Age warrior society in central Blekinge by studying the social role of its women, female cremation burials have been identified and their material studied. Artefacts and their combinations have been interpreted and their suggested meanings compared with contemporary iconography as well as with Anglo-Saxon and Norse literary sources. READ MORE

  6. 5. Ladies First : Why the Corporate Gender Quotas Policy Proposal Failed in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sandra Karlström; [2018]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This essay examines a long-lived issue in Sweden: the case of corporate gender quotas. Its focus is to understand why the policy failed to be adopted as legislation. Previous research has tended to focus on successful cases, while failed cases have been neglected. READ MORE