Essays about: "Housewives"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the word Housewives.

1. 16. From Silence to Affirmation:Domestic Workers in Uganda from Fieldwork to Empirical Agenda:An Intersection of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Kaythrine Wilson; [2010]
   Keywords : Domestic work; Gender; Ethnicity; Uganda; Neoliberal; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The system on migrant domestic workers in post-industrialist countries has been widely researched, and extensive material exists on migrant domestic service from the Philippines and Eastern Europe. However, the system on domestic work performed by local women other than housewives or nonmembers of the family in the household(nonkinship) has rarely caught the attention of mainstream research communities. READ MORE

3. 17. Possible Factors Affecting Women’s Conversational Style  : An Investigation of Hedges Used by Women in the American TV-series Desperate Housewives

   University essay from Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

   Author : JIA LIU; [2010]
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4. 18. Escaping Femininity : the Body and Androgynous Painting in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Sara Martinsson; [2009]
   Keywords : Virginia Woolf; To the Lighthouse; femininity; androgyny; Lily Briscoe;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on the character of Lily Briscoe in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. From a gender perspective it discusses Lily's striving to exceed her socially constructed position as a woman by attempting to be an artist. At the beginning of the twentieth century women were supposed to be housewives rather than artists. READ MORE

5. 19. HIV/AIDS Situatioin in Nepal : Transition to Women

   University essay from Institutionen för medicin och hälsa

   Author : Sangeeta Karki; [2008]
   Keywords : HIV AIDS; health; discrimination; women; Socio economic; cultural structure; Nepal;

   Abstract : This study is about age and gender specific HIV morbidity in Nepal. The main objective of the study is to find out the factors that affect the HIV prevalence in Nepali society and the relationships of different existing socio cultural and economic factors that have led females vulnerable to HIV infection especially to housewives. READ MORE

6. 20. WOMEN'S FASHION MAGAZINES IN JAPAN : Women vs. Women's Fashion Magazines in Relation to Self-image Creation and Consumption

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Xing Luo; [2008]
   Keywords : stereotype representation; female consumption - Japan; Women s fashion magazines - Japan; self-image creation; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study examines how Japanese women have been portrayed in women's fashion magazines and tests how women's fashion magazines have affected female readers? self-image creations and consumption behaviour. To this end, five copies magazines were selected for visual analysis to analyze the portrayals of Japanese women in the magazines from a gender perspective. READ MORE