Essays about: "Motherhood"

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  1. 16. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Hanna Stark; [2023]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; Celie; feminism; oppression; gender traits; masculine femininity;

    Abstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE

  3. 17. 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

  4. 18. 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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  5. 19. Motherhood in a Patriarchal Society : A Feminist Analysis of Motherhood in The Handmaid´s Tale by Margaret Atwood

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Hanna Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : feminism; patriarchy; motherhood; institution of motherhood;

    Abstract : Margaret Atwood The Handmaid´s Tale displays a discouraging picture of a patrairchal society where women have little to nothing to say about how they want to live their life. Decresing population rates due to fertility issues make the ability to have children a very important aspect of their society. READ MORE

  6. 20. Good Girl, Wife or Foreign Fighter - Danish Media Constructions of women in ISIS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Camilla Gissel; [2022]
    Keywords : ISIS; Female foreign fighters; Social Problems Theory; Narrative Criminology; ISIS bride; Betrayal; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Women who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, have been understood as serving passive and largely supportive roles in ISIS state-building by media and, to a far extent, academia. Academia has argued that the passive role evolves into active participation in weaponed combat and planning of attacks. READ MORE