Essays about: "Male Victim"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words Male Victim.
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1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber through the Female Gaze
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The discourse on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber has primarily been focused on the feminist undertones of her neogothic fairy tale retellings. In this essay, I apply the male and female gaze to Carter’s collection, which are perspectives I believe previous research on Carter’s works has overlooked. READ MORE
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2. Gender-Based Violence in Resettlement Camps: the Internally Displaced People of Northern Mozambique
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : Gender-based violence has been widely used by various actors against the most vulnerable individuals in conflict-affected settings. Internally displaced girls and women are especially susceptible to suffer from this type of violence; nevertheless, they frequently choose not to report it. READ MORE
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3. "A mother never stops waiting" : Exploring Motherhood as an Identity Marker in Social Movements
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The movement Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos; a transnational social movement uniting Central American mothers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua whose children have disappeared in Mexico while migrating to the US, is part of a Latin American tradition where a mother-centered kinship system is at the center. The movement has managed to reunite more than 300 families. READ MORE
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4. Misogyny in the Marshlands : female Characterization in Seamus Heaney’s “Bog Queen” and “Punishment”
University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildningAbstract : This essay argues that the depiction of women in Seamus Heaney’s poems “Bog Queen” and “Punishment” results from the male gaze in three ways: the narrative viewpoint, stereotypical characterization, and the objectification of the female body. The following essay analyses the poems through an ecofeminist perspective that enables examination of the female characters as personifications of nature – “Bog Queen” as Mother Earth and the victim of “Punishment” as Nerthus, the fertility goddess. READ MORE
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5. SCHOOL BULLYING: STUDENTS PERSPECTIVES FROM A TANZANIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim The current study was designed to qualitatively examine secondary school students’ understanding of bullying practices and how gender is involved in bullying in a Tanzanian secondary school. Theory The theoretical frameworks that are used in the current study are Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1977) and Social Dominance Theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). READ MORE