Essays about: "Female Bodies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the words Female Bodies.

1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

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

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
   Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

3. 2. Bodies of the Zohar : Kabbalistic Views on the Human Body

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Religionshistoria

   Author : Hedda Lindstedt Grahn; [2023]
   Keywords : Kabbalah; the Zohar; Jewish mysticism; Medieval; Bodies; Impurity;

   Abstract : Through the Zohar, the major medieval kabbalistic work, the human body is used in order to symbolise the divine structure. Present throughout are also dire warnings against the dangers of the flesh – a sense of anxiety often surrounds matters of the body. READ MORE

4. 3. #DeGenderFashion : A Visual Analysis of How Fashion Is Used to Challenge Gender Norms and Heteronormative Expectations

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Alexandra Edelsbrunner; [2023]
   Keywords : Fashion Theory; Gender Theory; Social Media Activism; Identity; Cultural Studies; Gender Norms;

   Abstract : The study aims to answer the question of whether fashion can communicate meaning, by addressing how creators on Instagram challenge dominant gender norms through fashion, with a focus on the activist movement of #DeGenderFashion. The research questions will be answered using fashion theory and gender theory as guiding points, with literature on social media activism, representations of gender, and cultural studies giving further insight into the dynamics of the movement. READ MORE

5. 4. Female Characters’ Images in Chinese Otome Game and Woman Stereotype

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

   Author : Dongna Chen; [2023]
   Keywords : otome games; gender; women stereotypes; character design; user experience;

   Abstract : Otome game is a role-playing game targeted to female players, with immersive romance as the main game experience. Female players assume the role of a female character and engage in the romantic relationships with different outstanding male characters. READ MORE

6. 5. Ageism and gender through the mirror:  the case of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Fatima Amghar Lopez; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In the tradition of western film sector, the mirror has played different roles, from displayingrepresentations of the female body that subsumes into the satisfaction of the male eye toprojecting gendered standards that have taken part in the construction of Western socialimaginaries. Since the motion picture sector is a form of public discourse that influences andshapes beliefs, imagery and cultural practices of a given society, this thesis puts underscrutiny the relation to the mirror in both symbolic and material perspectives through the casestudy of the main mirror scenes of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). READ MORE