Essays about: "Body-politics"

Found 5 essays containing the word Body-politics.

1. 1. Ruling Bodies in Feminist Speculative Fiction : Body Politics and Reproductive Rights in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Carhullan Army

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Nicole Wilson; [2018]
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3. 2. NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM AND DEBILITATION: A case study of disability, political economy & environment in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Jamie Woodworth; [2017]
   Keywords : Prognosis; Risk; Labor; Marxism; Crip Theory; Gender Studies; Environment; Disability; Human Ecology; Body Politics; Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore how disability can be mobilised as an analytical category in a critique of neoliberal capitalism as it affects laborers, their bodies, and their socio-economic as well as ecological environment. In particular, I unpack how and why the body is rendered able and unable by political economy, and how the labor market instantiates hegemonic norms of ability. READ MORE

4. 3. Writing the next Chapters of our Books : Every-day resistances by Greek women in Sweden

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Eftychia Vagena; [2016]
   Keywords : resistance; everyday; migrant; women; decolonial; feminism; border thinking; intersectionality;

   Abstract : This work is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of everyday knowledges and practices to re-address the issue of resistance, problematise the existing notions and create re-articulations. In what follows, I am investigating the main intersections of discrimination in the experience of the latest wave of Greek women migrants in Sweden in order to single out and analyze the ways and tools of their everyday resistance and re-existence. READ MORE

5. 4. A Voice for the Voiceless: Young Women's Leadership Experiences in Zimbabwe

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Johanna Olsson Selerud; Linda Bergkvist; [2013]
   Keywords : young women; leadership; SRHR; Zimbabwe; intersectionality; body politics; gender norms; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of the study has been to gain an understanding of how socio-cultural structures and gender norms affect young women’s leadership possibilities. This has been explored through a qualitative case study focusing on how young women leaders, working with sexual and reproductive health rights issues, experience and pursue leadership in Zimbabwe. READ MORE

6. 5. Spaces of in-between ‘Hybridity’, self-identification and agency of change in personal narratives of non-belonging

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Daphne Arbouz; [2011]
   Keywords : Hybridity; Identity; Nationalism; Body-politics; Transraciality; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Daphne Arbouz, Spaces of in-between, ‘hybridity’ self-identification and agency of change in personal narratives of non-belonging, Master’s thesis 30p. Lund University, 2011. Narratives of non-belonging and identity formations surrounding the concept of ‘hybridity’ in autobiographic material are discussed and interpreted. READ MORE