Essays about: "Girl culture"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 essays containing the words Girl culture.

  1. 16. GIRLS’ PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN: : A case study of girls’ participation in primary and secondary schools, in Takhar province, Afghanistan.

    University essay from

    Author : Safar Mohammad Fayaaz; [2015]
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    Abstract : Many common basic challenges such as cultural beliefs, early marriages and poverty did not only inhibited girls’ participation in education but also long distance, lack of facilities and lack of parents’ attention play crucial role. Even urban and rural peoples’ attitudes were important factors on inhibiting or influencing girls’ participation in education. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Fantastic Adventures of No-body: Mechanisms of cyborg disembodiment in five texts by women authors

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Meryl Trussler; [2014]
    Keywords : Catherynne M Valente; Anne McCaffrey; Ann Leckie; Laura J Mixon; James Tiptree Jr.; cyborgs; cyborg feminism; cyberfeminism; Donna Haraway; science fiction; embodiment; disembodiment; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Science fiction is a genre in which anything is possible. It therefore comprises the perfect litmus test of any given culture’s prevailing hopes and fears about the future. READ MORE

  4. 18. Opus Alchemicum : Of myths and affects

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Beatrice Orlandi; [2014]
    Keywords : Alchemy; prussian blue; Myths; affect; Romania; gold; metamorphosis; tower; fountain; garden; horses; honey; music and space; performance; gipsy; nomadic; diaspora; traditions; ritual; ritual objects; girl and built envinronment;

    Abstract : Opus Alchemicum explores the fabrication of “reality” upon imagination, and the affective relation between ideas and matter in the built environment. Like an alchemic experiment, through the manipulation of real facts and their transformation into myth, stories, rituals and objects, the project tries to demonstrate how myths are not just produced but also produce “real” by creating a collective understanding and a pattern of relations, roles and ideas. READ MORE

  5. 19. ‘WONDER WOMAN HAPPY MAGIC FUN SWORD GIRL SEXY! SEXY! FIGHT! FIGHT!’

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Gustav Thoreson; [2014]
    Keywords : Wonder Woman; Gail Simone; Parody; the Dialogic; Masquerade; Mimesis; Luce Irigaray; Mass Culture; M.M. Bakhtin; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the conceptual relationships between Parody, the body and space in via the writer Gail Simone’s version of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman. I develop a critical re-imag(e)ination of performativity, space and the body in contemporary mass culture via Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman. READ MORE

  6. 20. Popular Culture as Resistance : The Dual Critique of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Lovisa Bonnarp; [2014]
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    Abstract : This essay aims to examine Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, a dystopian novel, using Marxism, a utopian ideology, and also to highlight the dual critique presented by the book. This essay will use Marxism’s view on ideology and mass culture to analyse The Hunger Games. READ MORE