Essays about: "adult child binary"

Found 4 essays containing the words adult child binary.

  1. 1. “(…) we’re treated like children when it comes to external matters, while, inwardly, we’re much older than other girls our age”. : – A generational and queer reading of the diary of Anne Frank.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; Rakel Gyberg; [2023]
    Keywords : nonconformity; generational; gender; Anne Frank; discourse;

    Abstract : In this thesis, a generational and a queer reading were conducted on Anne Frank’s diary latest edition, containing substantial parts that were omitted in earlier editions. The aim was to contextualize the negotiation of discourses in relation to Anne’s nonconformity to the time in which she lived as a child (generational) and her girlhood (gender). READ MORE

  3. 2. Problematising Conceptualisations of Gender in Feminist Studies : The Place of Age and Children in the Concept of Gender

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Teri Shardlow; [2019]
    Keywords : adult-centred; feminist studies; gender; age; children; subjectivity; power knowledge; socio-discursive construction of age; adult child binary; postmodern feminist anti- epistemology; feminist poststructuralism;

    Abstract : Using a feminist poststructuralist approach as a guide, I begin this thesis with the workinghypothesis that gender may be an adult-centred concept in feminist studies. This leads me toask: If the concept of gender in feminist studies is adult-centred, how is this centring formedand maintained? To answer this question, I begin by splitting my analysis into three analyticalsections: age, children, and gender. READ MORE

  4. 3. The preschool teacher, gender pedagogy and change : Rethinking the preschool teacher and her work for change from the perspective of sexual difference theory.

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

    Author : Ylva Samuelsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Change; Early Childhood Education; Femininity; Feminism; Gender Equality; Gender Pedagogy; Normalisation; Preschool; Preschool Teacher; Sexual Difference Theory;

    Abstract : In this thesis I aim to investigate the Swedish preschool teacher interested in change and her work, here conceptualised as gender pedagogy. I will take my departure in sexual difference theory to contrast some of the assumptions behind preschool work, gender pedagogy and gender equality. READ MORE

  5. 4. The War of Ages : A Deconstruction of the Adult-Child Dichotomy in Roald Dahl's Matilda

    University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

    Author : Jenny Hansson; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This literary essay is centered around Roald Dahl's Matilda and employs deconstructive theory in order to dismantle the binary relationship between adults and children that the novel's author attempts to uphold. The portrayal of adult characters as either evil or passive, and child characters as innocent and helpless, establishes children and grownups as juxtaposed and limits the choice of hero to a child. READ MORE