Essays about: "Thesis, woman Identity"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 24 essays containing the words Thesis, woman Identity.
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16. Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Feminist Reader : Feminist Reader Response Theory in Orlando: a Biography
University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. READ MORE
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17. “It could just as well be my body” : A posthumanist and phenomenological study of the becomings of an embodied female subject and her experiences of fitting and misfitting in relation to cosmetic body modifications
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : This thesis is a phenomenological study that has been carried out via two semi-structured interviews with an - in conventional ways of categorising - 22 years old white, heterosexual, and middleclass Swedish woman, referred to as “Andrea”. The thesis aims to explore the becomings of Andrea in connection with cosmetic body modifications and her experiences in relation to this of fitting and misfitting, which are related to the dis/ability system. READ MORE
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18. "If you don't think about it, it doesn´t exist" : Queer Sexuality and Gender Ambiguity in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream
University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : This essay will discuss Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream, posthumously published 1970, focusing in particular on the importance of the protagonist's fluid gender identity and interest in queer sexuality. Central to my discussion is queer theorist Judith Butler's view of gender as something performed and contextual and her objection to the binary of man and woman. READ MORE
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19. (De)constructing the 'Third World Woman' in International Gender-Equality Development advocacy: a postcolonial feminist discourse analysis of identity constructions in RFSU´s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocacy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis explores the causes and ramifications of representing women in gender-equality advocacy within the realm of International Development cooperation’s. This study shows that through representing the issues of development and the people for whom they are aimed - we risk constructing and reconstructing conceptions of what the postcolonial feminist field of studies calls ´third world difference´, meaning differences between ´western´ women and ´third world´ women. READ MORE
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20. Sexual rights of the other
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The thesis investigates the Danish approach to sexual rights in development through the national development agency’s (DANIDA) strategy for sexual and reproductive rights (SRHR) and a small side project sponsored by Danida on LGBT rights in the global south. In doing so, the thesis utilizes post-colonial and post-structural perspectives of among others Chantal Mouffe and Homi K. READ MORE
