Essays about: "Gender identities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 231 essays containing the words Gender identities.

1. 1. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Hanna Engström; [2024]
   Keywords : Harriet Jacobs; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; slave narrative; gender; double consciousness; abolitionism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. READ MORE

3. 2. Queering the Normal? : An intersectional study of gender identities and roles in the Late Iron Age cemeteries at Lovö, Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Leticia Tate; [2024]
   Keywords : Archaeology; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Cemeteries; Burials; Iron Age; Scandinavia; Grave Goods; Intersectionality; Lovö; Identity; Arkeologi; genusvetenskap; queerteori; kyrkogårdar; begravningar; järnåldern; Skandinavien; gravgods; intersektionalitet; Lovö; identitet;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the relationship between grave goods and the identity of buried individuals. The interpretation of sex and gender, as well as gendered grave goods in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, is of a particular focus. READ MORE

4. 3. Towards Another Closet?! The Social Integration-related Experiences of Georgian LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers in Berlin, Germany.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Tamazi Sozashvili; [2023-11-03]
   Keywords : LGBTQ asylum seekers; Social Integration; Intersectionality; Georgia; European Union.;

   Abstract : Georgia is among the top 10 nationalities who seek asylum in the EU. Despite not existing the official statistics, LGBTQ+ individuals, too, flee from Georgia due to persecution and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. READ MORE

5. 4. “If you think that you will continue to be a cisgender company and all that stuff, you’re mistaken” Exploring the Impact of Employment Discrimination on Individuals with Trans-life Experiences: A Case Study of the GAAT Foundation in Colombia

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Luis Leandro Ortega; [2023-10-26]
   Keywords : Capabilities; Colombia; Freedom; Intersectionality; Structural oppression;

   Abstract : This study examines the employment discrimination faced by individuals with trans-life experiences in Colombia. It explores the structural factors that contribute to their marginalization and aims to understand the impact of employment discrimination on their well-being and agency. READ MORE

6. 5. QUEER PARENTHOOD ACROSS TEMPORAL AND SOCIAL LINES; An anthropological study on queer individuals experiences of parenthood in Swedish society

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Emma Eliardsson; [2023-09-27]
   Keywords : Queer parenthood; parental line; temporality; emotionality; kinship;

   Abstract : This study aims to examine the everyday experience of queer parenthood, relating to aspects of gender and sexuality, family relations, and social norms in Swedish society. The study reveals that being a queer parent in contemporary Swedish society means being in an ambivalent position where factors of time and space, as well as gender identity and expression proves to be a leading force in how the parents practice parenthood and whether the political aspect of queerness comes to be consciously or unconsciously expressed within parenthood. READ MORE