Essays about: "Doing gender"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 153 essays containing the words Doing gender.

  1. 16. Male Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Uganda

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Ida Lyng Bengtsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Conflict-Related Sexual Violence; Sexual and gender-based violence; men; male victims; Gender identity; Masculinities; Hegemonic masculinity; Uganda;

    Abstract : Abstract This research is dedicated to increasing the understanding of the phenomenon of conflict-related violence against men. The topic of conflict-related violence against men has through history been unnoticed, unaddressed, and unrecognized in the field of gender-based violence. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Future is Familiar - Young Swedes Imagining Work-life Balance in Their Future Adulthood

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Franciska Dis Brodersen; [2022]
    Keywords : imagined futures; young people; work-life balance; gender inequality; the second shift; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the imagined futures of young Swedes with a focus on how they envision creating work-life balance and how they aim to divide their time between paid and unpaid work. This is done by analyzing written accounts of 168 upper secondary students from both university preparatory schools (UP) and vocational schools (VO) in a middle-sized town in Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 18. Migration into Urban Areas: a Sociological and Micro Perspective : A thematic analysis of how migration is used as a tool to gain personal development in Zambia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Juliette Iturralde Ulfsax; [2022]
    Keywords : Push and pull factor; symbolic capital; gender display; doing gender; urbanisation; migration;

    Abstract : The pace of urbanisation in less developed regions creates consequenceswhich cause problems such as housing, overcrowding and lack of livingstandards in the urban areas. A problem connected more to developingcountries than developed countries that earlier went through the same process. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Joy of Not Fitting In – An Essay on How Non-binary People Accomplish Gender Euphoria

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Frederik Kramer Kluw; [2022]
    Keywords : Non-binary; Gender Euphoria; Masculinity Femininity; Internet-ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Doing gender; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how gender euphoria is constructed by non-binary people, and how these experiences are embedded in ideas of masculinities and femininities. The theoretical point of departure involves the theorization of “doing gender” by West and Zimmerman, concepts from ethnomethodology inspired by Liberman, and finally “performative acts” by Butler. READ MORE

  6. 20. Digital natives’ experience of early and continuous exposure to pornography

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Fredrika Hedberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Pornography; Sexual Script; Porn Literacy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : With the technological advancements of the 21st century, online pornography has become increasingly available to children and adolescents, and this research aims to investigate how individuals who started watching pornography at an early age experience pornography. The study implements a phenomenological approach and is based on 13 qualitative interviews with participants who started watching pornography before the age of 15. READ MORE