Essays about: "traditional indian women"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words traditional indian women.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. CAPABILITIES INSIDE FOUR WALLS : A qualitative field study on the capabilities and freedoms for women in a developing context challenging the approach of Amartya Sen

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Olivia Jakobsson; Talvin Kaur Logani; [2019]
   Keywords : Amartya Sen; Martha Nussbaum; Feminism; Power; Capabilities; India; Women;

   Abstract : The ‘’capability approach’’, developed by the Indian economist Amartya Sen, has been widely used in the field of development and has contributed a perception of development that is different from the traditional understanding of it. Despite this, the theory has received a great amount of feminist critique and it has been concluded that the field lacks empirical data on how women in developing countries can be fully understood from the approach of Sen. READ MORE

4. 3. Voicing Aspirations to be Heard

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

   Author : Isobel Spaven-Donn; [2019]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Quality of maternal healthcare is one of the many pervasive public health challenges facing India. Maternal healthcare is defined as a fundamental human right and a crucial development issue by the UN, with direct links to the progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, especially reducing poverty (SDG1), ensuring healthy lives (SDG3) and achieving gender equality (SDG5). READ MORE

5. 4. Weakened Women Make the Hero : A Feminist Reading of the protagonist in Slumdog Millionaire

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Åsa Lindskog; [2018]
   Keywords : Vikas Swarup; Slumdog Millionaire; Feminist Criticism; Literature;

   Abstract : This essay explores and problematizes the relationship between the protagonist Ram and the female characters of Vikas Swarup’s novel Slumdog Millionaire. In order to analyse Ram in relation to women, feminist theory is used together with discussions of patriarchy, India and Bollywood. READ MORE

6. 5. "I expected a male reporter" : a qualitative interview-study of the Kerala working culture in media newsrooms

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Journalistik

   Author : Sofia Hermansson; [2017]
   Keywords : movements; femininity; embodiement; Gendered spaces; strategies; female empowerment; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is a qualitative interview-study of the working conditions for female journalists within an Indian and Keralan context focusing on the female body and spaces. The study takes place in the Keralan society focusing on how women journalists cope with working in a traditional male dominated area and how the female body somehow is seen as an invader in the journalism field, based on pre-assumptions on sex and gender and female placement. READ MORE