Essays about: "Marriage"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 262 essays containing the word Marriage.

  1. 21. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  3. 22. Marriage and Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar : An Analysis of Gender Expectations and Poetic Language

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Ebba Carlstein; [2023]
    Keywords : literature; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; marriage; motherhood; gender; expectations; roles; figurative language; poetic language; domesticity; women; 1950s; America;

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  4. 23. Rising Anti-Gender Movements and Populism in Europe : An Analysis and Discussion in the Context of Turkey’s Withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention

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    Author : Gökçe Kavel; [2023]
    Keywords : Istanbul Convention; anti-gender movement; populism; anti-rights; diffusion;

    Abstract : There is an increasing global anti-rights movement—the child of marriage of the right-wing populist and anti-gender movements—that affects the rights of not only women and LGBTQIs but also refugees, asylum seekers, and various minorities. Although this research only focuses on the event of Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, it provides valuable perspective to understand and prevent the further spread of anti-gender and right-wing populist tactics and rhetoric. READ MORE

  5. 24. Imitation and Protest: Two Case Studies of Depictions of Marriage in Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Jonatan Jönsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Literature has long been an effective vehicle for conveying women’s morals and opinions when they have otherwise been ignored and supressed. Fifty years apart, Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner wrote fiction critical of different aspects of marriage with noticeably different results and conclusions. READ MORE

  6. 25. Limitations of Girl Child Education and Consequences on National Development in Nigeria: A Teachers’, Counsellors’ Perspective on Obudu Local Government Area.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Nmajeme Onyinyechi J; [2022-11-25]
    Keywords : Girl-child; Education; National Development;

    Abstract : Aim: This research examined the limitations of girl child education and its consequences on national development. The major aim was to investigate through the lens of teachers and counsellors the factors limiting girl-child education and its consequences on nation-building in Nigeria. READ MORE