Essays about: "Girl culture"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the words Girl culture.

  1. 21. Product Placement in Television Series

    University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Carolin Moll; Monika Walicka; [2013-09-13]
    Keywords : Product placement; television series; marketing communications; mass media; Gossip Girl; luxury products; advertising;

    Abstract : Purpose: To explore how young women are affected by the product placement of luxury products in the television series Gossip Girl. Background: Consumers are turning away from traditional ways of advertising and research has proven that advertising is more effective when the recipients are not directly aware of its promotional purpose. READ MORE

  3. 22. Why honor is worth more than a life : A literature review about ’so called’ honor violence

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för hälsa

    Author : Malin Paulusson; [2013]
    Keywords : honor culture; honor; values; honor; violence; honor; killings; collective; society;

    Abstract : Background: In honor culture the family’s honor is valued by the girl’s or the woman’s social and sexual behavior, in her virginity, and is therefore dependent on how well she can manage the deeply rooted traditional norms that describes what is acceptable or not. Anyone who violates these norms and rules must be punished, and the most extreme form is killings, ‘so called’ honor killings, sanctioned by the community. READ MORE

  4. 23. Female Genital Mutilation: An Analysis through Capability Approach and Cultural Relativism

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Marissa Vera; Mariscol O'Conner Perez; Jasser El-sissi; [2013]
    Keywords : FGM; female genital mutilation; Mali; Capability Approach; Cultural Relativism;

    Abstract : Female Genital Mutilation is a cultural and historical practice engrained in the African Culture.This practice is part of the African Rite of Passage; where a young girl passes on from being achild into being a grown woman. READ MORE

  5. 24. Girlhood through film representation : Reconstructing spaces and places for girls

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Tsaousi Evdoxia; [2012]
    Keywords : Girl culture; media representation; gender performativity; femininity; Foucauldian Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : There is a scholar consensus that girls have been marginalized in childhood studies. Taking into account the gender effect in constructing different childhoods for boys and girls this thesis explores the frontiers of girlhood. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Street Child's Process to Leave the Streets of Lima, Peru

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Nina Bengtsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Ecological system theory; street children; resilience; process; development; gender; age; motivation; ecological crossing ; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study is based on a field study conducted in Lima, Peru. The field study was financed by the MFS (Minor field study) scholarship of SIDA. My intention was to illuminate the street child’s process, as an actor in interaction with its surrounding environmental systems, to leave the streets of Lima, Peru. READ MORE