Essays about: "Androgyny"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word Androgyny.

  1. 1. Gender performance in livestream shopping - An empirical study of the most popular male host for beauty product in China

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Zhaoze Wang; Xiaorui Hu; [2021]
    Keywords : marketing; consumer; livestream shopping; gender performance;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how a successful male beauty host and his viewers perform gender roles in the Chinese livestream shopping. Although a vast scope of research has approached different gender-related topics in marketing and consumer research, livestream shopping has remained unexplored. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gender and Sexuality on Gethen : A Contemporary Analysis of Ursula K le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Ellen Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : gender; sexuality; Ursula K Le Guin; The Left Hand of Darkness; science fiction; kön; sexualitet; Ursula K Le Guin; Mörkrets Vänstra Hand; science fiction;

    Abstract : Ursula K Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) because she wanted to explore the limitations of gender and sexuality in a way that reflected the ongoing epistemic changes in her society. She created the Gethenians, an ambisexual, androgynous species that live most of their life without an assigned sex, making their entire society lack the concept of gender. READ MORE

  4. 3. Brand gender: An androgynous perspective : A gender inclusive study with the case of Acne Studios.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Marknadsföring

    Author : Alba Sanz Alvarez; [2019]
    Keywords : : gender; brand; fashion; androgynous; brand equity; brand personality; selfrepresentation; self-congruency;

    Abstract : The vast majority of research based on brand gender has been developed focusing on consumers’ perspectives and behaviour. The implications of studying different perceptions of a brand’s gender can be related to brand equity, since this term is strongly associated with brand personality. READ MORE

  5. 4. No (Wo)man's Land - The Making of a Room of One's Own in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Wallentin Richardsson; [2019]
    Keywords : The Self and Society Emancipation Gender Hybridity Androgyny Woolf Bhabha; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this essay, I uncover and examine a number of different strategies applied toward self-realization in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003). I filter Ali’s modern day bildungsroman through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s understanding of self-realization as a gendered process as well as through Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory. READ MORE

  6. 5. Undressing the Androgynous Body : Analysing Gender Equality in the Representation of Androgynous Bodies within Contemporary Swedish Fashion

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Karin Johansson; [2017]
    Keywords : Androgyny; Body Ideals; Gender; Equality; Power; Fashion;

    Abstract : Stemming back thousands of years, the term androgyny continues to raise uncertainty regarding its definition in contemporary society. Simultaneously, the term has come to represent a body ideal and fashion that signals gender equality. READ MORE