Essays about: "Out of My Skin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Out of My Skin.

  1. 1. "Words Hide Truth": National belonging in Marian Engel’s Bear and Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Edda Ahrent; [2021]
    Keywords : National identity; national belonging; Marian Engel; Bear; Tessa McWatt; Out of My Skin; Canadian Literature; CanLit; Discourse theory; Discourse analysis; post-colonialism; gender; bodies; pioneer; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The famous problem of Canadian Literature in the contemporary critical landscape is how it, as an institution, denies all but certain kinds of identities. Alexander Beecroft suggests that a national literature, through its attempts to locate and articulate a communal identity and a notion of fellow-feeling, curates characteristics among members of previously numerous groups which can function to denote nationalistic identity. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Establishment of Macrobenthic Faunal Communities in Planted Mangroves of Increasing Age

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Simon Jacobsen Ellerstrand; [2017]
    Keywords : Benthos; Shannon-diversity; forestation; biodiversity; ecosystem engineers; development issues; Biology and Life Sciences;

    Abstract : The mangrove ecosystem is a tropical coastal community inhabited by organisms adapted to the stressful environment of the tidal zone. Mangrove ecosystems has in recent years been noted for the important ecosystem services they offer. READ MORE

  4. 3. (S)examensarbete

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Cecilia Pfaff; [2016]
    Keywords : art; textile art; knitting; crochet; sex; sexy; sexiness; Instagram; selfie; performance; sun chair; craftivism; Dolly Parton; body; feminism; #xxxjobb; #123sexy; konst; textilkonst; stickning; virkning; sex; sexig; sexighet; Instagram; selfie; performance; solstol; craftivism; Dolly Parton; kropp; feminism; #xxxjobb; #123sexy;

    Abstract : Preface: Thank you to all the women in my life who have supported me through this process; to my mother, to my other mother (Susan), to Kara, to Jordan and, of course, to Dolly. Summary: (S)examensarbete is a journey through which I have questioned if knitting can be sexy. READ MORE

  5. 4. Affectivity in the classroom : A contribution to a feminist corpomaterial intersectional pedagogy

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Emilia Åkesson; [2014]
    Keywords : Feminist postconstructionist perspectives; feminist intersectional corpomaterialism; pedagogies; didactics; methods; classrooms; assemblages; affects; emotions; intersectional critical pedagogy; anti-oppressive education; norm critical pedagogies;

    Abstract : In this study I aim to contribute to the field of feminist corpomaterial intersectional pedagogies, which I understand as a part of the broader field of feminist postconstructionist pedagogies. Against the background of feminist postconstructionism I wish to overcome binary understandings of for example discourse/materiality, theory/practice, male/female and mind/body in pedagogies. READ MORE

  6. 5. Disciplining the Japanese Body: Gender, Power and Skin Color in Japan

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

    Author : Evdokia Angelaka; [2013]
    Keywords : Japan; Whiteness; Power; Gender; Foucault; Beauty norms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to explore gender norms, beauty ideals and social practices and the way these become ‘visible’ on the Japanese female body as (re)producing the ideal Japanese femininity and skin color in particular. In order to achieve that, I investigate and identify these norms, the mechanisms that implement them on the body and the attitudes and expression of resistance against them. READ MORE