Essays about: "The state of women in literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 44 essays containing the words The state of women in literature.

  1. 1. ”CEDAW IS OUR HOLY TEXT, OUR HOLY BOOK” Combating gender-based violence in a de facto state: The case of Iraqi Kurdistan

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Såma Salih; [2023-08-31]
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    Abstract : The Kurdistan region in Iraq, also known as KRI, has gained semi-independence over the decades and is today recognized in the Iraqi constitution as an autonomous part of the federal country. While still belonging to Iraq, it has been declared that the KRI performs better than its parent state in terms of security, stability and promoting international norms such as gender equality. READ MORE

  2. 2. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling

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

    Author : Jane Mejdahl; [2023]
    Keywords : South Korea; Transnational adoption; Storytelling; Birthmothers; Everyday violence; Motherhood; Gender; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. READ MORE

  3. 3. Witch hunts and the intersections of gender, age and class : A feminist analysis on the Western European witch hunts in the 16th and 17th century.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Bente de Koeijer; [2022]
    Keywords : gendered ageism; witch hunts; femicide; lookism; marxist feminism; women s history;

    Abstract : Aim: The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the effects of gender, age, and class in witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Western Europe from a feminist perspective. It also aims to understand the perception of these witch hunts in our present society. It centers poor, old, women who were accused of witchcraft. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Individualised Swedish Pension System: A qualitative study on foreign-born women's retirement planning

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Arvid Söderström; [2022]
    Keywords : The Swedish pension system; Retirement planning; Economic demography; Foreign-born women; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Swedish pension reform in the 1990s introduced several individualistic features and a debate has emerged on the implications of the structure and if policymakers behind the reform had unrealistic assumptions on economic behaviour. Given the potential negative implications of the current structure and the projections on how foreign-born women is at risk of receiving future low pensions, a qualitative study was done focusing on the individual reflections on how some foreign-born women perceive their future retirement and how they navigate when making pension-related decisions. READ MORE

  5. 5. Language Politics of the Mexican State regarding native languages and the funding of literary production

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lucia Paprckova; [2022]
    Keywords : literature; native languages; indigenous writers; governmental subsidies for literary creation; world literature; decoloniality; colonialism; national literary canon; homogeneity; racism; classism;

    Abstract : This thesis strives to understand the underlying narrative behind the current distribution of the public funding between the writers of the Spanish language and writers of native languages in Mexico, as well as contextualise the policies of the Mexican State that often materialise colonial dynamics. The situation of native women writers is emphasised as they are forced to tackle multiple disadvantages based on unjust social structures. READ MORE