Essays about: "‘Doing Gender’, Gender and Society"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 31 essays containing the words ‘Doing Gender’, Gender and Society.
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6. Travel to and from Tánnak : An analysis of Indigenous Innovation in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : What can female Sámi perspectives on Indigenous innovation unearth about implicit influencesof culture on the development of business and partnerships? Relying on approaches of BusinessAnthropology and indigenous studies, this paper aims to analyze the expressions and influencesof cultural values and patterns that affect the partnerships and entrepreneurial decisions inIndigenous innovation. Collected through qualitative and collaborative methods, the empiricaldata for the case study of the Tánnak company and its indigenous owners shed light on theposition of female Sámi innovators in Sweden. READ MORE
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7. Reducing or reproducing gender norms : An ethnographic study based on observations in Ugandan preschools
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Abstract : The purpose of this study is to contribute, with knowledge of conceptions of male and female, to Ugandan preschools and to study in what ways gender norms in the Ugandan society are reflected and developed in the daily activity in preschools. The theoretical underpinnings used in this study are social constructive and inspired by Butler, Connell and Pearse among others. READ MORE
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8. Practically Naked: Fan Service in Anime as Hyper-Gendered Performances of Spectacle
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis combines Judith Butler’s concept of gender understood as a performance and Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle in order to apply it onto the sexually charged imagery in anime known as “fan service.” In doing so, it endeavours to answer what visually constitutes a gendered performance in fan service, and how those visuals can be read as a form of spectacle. READ MORE
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9. Sense or sensibility? : Emotional labor from the perspective of female leaders
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Emotional labor is the unpaid and often unnoticed emotion work that foremost women carry out, not only in the home life but at the workplace as well. Emotional labor is highly associated with femininity according to previous research and often involves being attentive to others, creating a good ambiance, and to be warm and caring. READ MORE
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10. Advancing Women’s Rights in the Age of Social Media: An Analysis of the #MeToo Movement
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : In 2017, the Me Too campaign, founded ten years earlier to help women of color from low-income communities who were survivors of sexual violence, became a viral social media movement following allegations on Twitter by actress Alyssa Milano of sexual harassment and violence against the powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Using the hashtag #MeToo, Milano unwittingly mobilized millions of women to share their stories via social media, and the #Metoo movement subsequently helped to illuminate both the structural and individual aspects of sexual harassment and abuse by men against women within virtually all aspects of society. READ MORE
