Essays about: "Gender performativity"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 78 essays containing the words Gender performativity.

1. 21. Which Gender Is Being Mainstreamed in Global Politics?

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Kristina Hemzaček; [2021]
   Keywords : gender mainstreaming ; radical feminism; performativity; feminist theory; transnational policy document analysis; sex-based; gender-based;

   Abstract : Gender mainstreaming is a transnational policy process that has been underway for close to three decades. This paper aims to uncover “which gender is being mainstreamed in global politics” through conducting a textual analysis on twenty global policy documents. READ MORE

3. 22. Performance Art and Agential Realism: Producing Material-Discursive Knowledge about Class and the Body.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Karron Corbett; [2021]
   Keywords : Feminist performance art; agential realism; intersectionality; class; new materialism; class-drag; performativity; class-passing; intra-activity;

   Abstract : Using new materialist approaches to intersectional theories of gender/sex –particularly Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemological framework, agential realism– this thesis examines how knowledge about class is produced, through feminist performance art practices. Through this lens I will examine how two pieces of performance art by U.K. READ MORE

4. 23. THE POTENTIAL OF TRALLPUNK : Constituting masculinity in a Swedish punk scene

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Anders Boström; [2021]
   Keywords : Trallpunk; Swedish punk; punk; interviews; song lyrics; discourse analysis; performativity; gender performance; hegemonic masculinity; masculinity; gender;

   Abstract : Music is a ubiquitous part of society and has some capacity for spurring social change by stirring emotions with people. The music genre of punk is overtly political and promotes different kinds of social change, and all this makes punk relevant to study for the social sciences and humanities. READ MORE

5. 24. Representation of Gender Roles, Femininity and Subject Positions in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills : Erika Girardi/Erika Jayne

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   Author : Natalie Soyege; Sofia Nilsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Gender Roles; Reality; Feminism; Femininity; Representation; Television;

   Abstract : This study is a discursive analysis of the representation of the person Erika Girardi within the Reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. With a theoretical perspective anchored within Judith Butler’s (1999) theory of performativity and Beverley Skeggs (2000) research of class within feminism. READ MORE

6. 25. Is it queer enough? : Anti-normativity in Young Adult Literature: Acomparison between Carve the Mark, The Left Hand ofDarkness, and The Giver

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

   Author : Lisa Strandberg; [2021]
   Keywords : queer theory; gender performativity; Roth; anti-normativity; heteronormativity;

   Abstract : This essay explores how anti-normativity is achieved in Veronica Roth's novel Carve the Mark and uses Lois Lowry's The Giver and Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness as points of comparison. It examines if Roth, Lowry, and Le Guin follow through with creating characters that are more than superficially queer by destabilizing gender and traditional attitudes towards identity markers. READ MORE