Essays about: "Feminism and patriarchy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 essays containing the words Feminism and patriarchy.

  1. 1. Female Former Child Soldiers Perception of Power : Females captured by the LRA's attitudes towards the people in power in the bush and its effects on them as women

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Ebba Gustafsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Empowerment; female empowerment; gender equality; gender inequality; feminism; child soldier; female former child soldier; SDGs; sustainable development goals; Lord s Resistance army; LRA;

    Abstract : The research aims to understand how female former child soldiers describe the ones who had power over them in the bush of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to understand how patriarchal beliefs in a society affect vulnerable women. The researcher wishes to enhance the importance of working against patriarchal beliefs and stopping child abductions for the sake of young women’s empowerment. READ MORE

  3. 2. "She'd learn over and over from Pa: these men had to have the last punch" : A literary analysis of Delia Owen's Where the Crawdads Sing and how it can be incorporated in the EFL classroom to discuss men's violence against women

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Julia Holmborg; [2023]
    Keywords : Power; Violence; Feminism; Rape culture; Critical literacy; EFL Classroom; Upper Secondary School;

    Abstract : This essay offers a literary study of the novel Where the Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens published in 2018. The aim is to analyze the presence of men’s violence against women by focusing on the protagonist Kya. READ MORE

  4. 3. Giving Lolita a Voice : A feminist reading of Lolita and My Dark Vanessa

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Tyra Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Lolita; My Dark Vanessa; Literature; Feminism; Internalized Patriarchy; Male Gaze;

    Abstract : This study examines patriarchal ideology and traditional gender roles in Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita and Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa. Using feminist literary criticism, the essay investigates in what waysthe ways in which the female characters, Dolores, and Vanessa, are affected by the patriarchal assumptions and patterns that the male characters promote. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Hanna Stark; [2023]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; Celie; feminism; oppression; gender traits; masculine femininity;

    Abstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE

  6. 5. Motherhood in a Patriarchal Society : A Feminist Analysis of Motherhood in The Handmaid´s Tale by Margaret Atwood

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Hanna Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : feminism; patriarchy; motherhood; institution of motherhood;

    Abstract : Margaret Atwood The Handmaid´s Tale displays a discouraging picture of a patrairchal society where women have little to nothing to say about how they want to live their life. Decresing population rates due to fertility issues make the ability to have children a very important aspect of their society. READ MORE