Essays about: "Masculinity Portrayals"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Masculinity Portrayals.

  1. 1. In Bondage at the Bottom of Hierarchy : A Study of Female Victimisation and the Exploitation of the Poor in Crime and Punishment

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Josefin Lann; [2023]
    Keywords : Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Crime and Punishment; Marxism; feminism; class struggle; female victimisation; double oppression;

    Abstract : This study investigates the societal tribulations of impoverished men and women in nineteenth-century St Petersburg in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The analysis is centred around the novel’s portrayals of class struggle, female victimisation, and double oppression in capitalist and patriarchal society. READ MORE

  3. 2. Sexy Women and Unmanly Men : Representations of Librarians Onscreen

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Camille Nampetch; [2023]
    Keywords : librarian representation; hegemonic masculinity; the male gaze;

    Abstract : This study investigates the representations of librarians in movies spanning from the years 2012 to 2022 from a gender perspective using thematic analysis. Being a female-dominated profession with an increasing use of technology, the goal is to see how librarians are being portrayed today and how that might affect the perceptions of librarianship. READ MORE

  4. 3. Porträtteringen av entreprenörer i lantbrukspress : en befästning och frigörelse av stereotypa mönster

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Josephine Andersson; Lovisa Ek; [2021]
    Keywords : entreprenör; genus; lantbrukare; mediebilder; stereotypa mönster;

    Abstract : Entreprenörer och lantbrukare är manligt kodade koncept med manliga konnotationer. När lantbrukare studeras som företagare finns det en risk att den maskulint kodade entreprenören i samklang med den maskulint kodade lantbrukaren blir dubbelt stereotypiserad. READ MORE

  5. 4. Two Entwined, Closeted Shirts : A Literary Analysis of Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" Through a Queer Lens and Its Pedagogical Applicability in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Henrik Frank; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender studies; Brokeback Mountain ; queer theory; gender normativity; hegemonic masculinities; LGBTQ literature; EFL; Upper Secondary School;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on how masculinities are performed and portrayed in Annie Proulx’s novella “Brokeback Mountain” (1997). The thesis argues that through examining the characters’ portrayals of masculinity, readers might develop a deeper, nuanced understanding of gender normativity today. READ MORE

  6. 5. Not just a kvinnofråga A content analysis of Swedish press portrayals of men & #MeToo

    University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Elissa Shaw; [2019-08-07]
    Keywords : #MeToo; content analysis; media framing; masculinities; gender portrayal;

    Abstract : With its sudden outbreak in October 2017, the anti-harassment movement #MeToo quickly created a vast, worldwide impact on social media, in the traditional press as well as in everyday lives. In Sweden especially, a country with a long history in fighting for gender equality, women in their thousands shared their stories of sexual harassment and came together both as individuals and as occupational groups to raise a collective voice. READ MORE