Essays about: "Womanhood"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 essays containing the word Womanhood.

  1. 1. Perspectives on womanhood in rural America: A qualitative exploration of female identity within a Christian and republican context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Jonna Ekblom; [2023]
    Keywords : gender roles; womanhood; motherhood; feminism; conservatism; religion; modern and traditional women.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Equality between men and women in American society has been an ongoing struggle and debate for centuries. In some ways, the societal position of women has improved, e.g., in terms of gaining access to the labor market. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. “I Was Starting From an Ideal That Was Too High, That's Why the Fall Was So Strong”. : Interviewing women in Italy to understand how the social conception of (non) motherhood affects the choice to become (or not) a mother.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Forum för genusvetenskap och jämställdhet

    Author : Bianca Ferrante; [2022]
    Keywords : motherhood; non-motherhood; childlessness; social conception; representation; choice; qualitative interviewing; feminist phenomenology;

    Abstract : Motherhood is stereotypically considered one of the main characteristics every woman has. It’s congenital, something that naturally belongs to women and that, because of that, represents one of the main and necessary ways to really complete the path of womanhood. You fulfill your being a woman by being a mother. READ MORE

  5. 4. I am white, therefore I am : A phenomenological study of whiteness as experienced by white women in relation to Others within a travel context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Valerie van Schaik; [2022]
    Keywords : Autoethnography; Bodies; Critical Whiteness studies; Female; Feminist studies; Gender; Identity; Intersectionality; Norm; Othering; Phenomenology; Privilege; Race; Raciality; Racialization; Spatiality; Situated knowledge; Transnational; Travel; White; Whiteness; White Privilege; Woman; Womanhood.;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a complex understanding of the phenomenological experience of whiteness as a racial category. Based on theories of critical whiteness studies, intersectionality and (white) phenomenology, I conducted five semi-structured interviews with five white women about their understandings of their whiteness within a context of transnational travel. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Matrix Behind Womanhood : Political Ideology and Substantive Representation of Women in Poland

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Dominique Keizer; [2021]
    Keywords : Substantive representation; Womanhood; Poland;

    Abstract : In 2015 the Polish political environment saw a sudden change with the election of PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość/Law and Justice), a conservative right-wing wing party that became the ruling voice in society. Due to the interconnectedness of politics and religion, the role of the Catholic church gained prevalence leading to a shift in the preferred discursive practices. READ MORE