Essays about: "body commodification"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words body commodification.

1. 1. Going To Bed Now: Dissociation Feminism and Implicit Critique in My Year of Rest and Relaxation

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Bäckström; [2023]
   Keywords : Docile body; The Culture Industry; Dissociation Feminism; Femcel; Sedation; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Ottessa Moshfegh;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine how the novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018 / 2019) by Ottessa Moshfegh, through the lens of dissociative feminism, can be interpreted as a critique regarding commodification of the body. To explore this claim, I discuss the protagonist’s dissociative feminist behaviour in contrast to her friend Reva’s femcel-behaviour. READ MORE

3. 2. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
   Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE

4. 3. Popularizing implants : Exploring conditions for eliciting user adoption of digital implants through developers, enthusiasts and users

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DVMT)

   Author : Mikael Ericsson Duffy; [2020]
   Keywords : implants; user adoption; service design; UX; user experience; disruptive innovation; body augmentation; data privacy; datafication; NFC; RFID; sensors; corporations; commodification; enthusiasts; biometrics; bio-data; e-health; wireless data transfer; embodied interaction; commodification;

   Abstract : Digital implants have become a new frontier for body hackers, technology enthusiasts and disruptive innovation developers, who seek to service this technology for themselves and to new users. This thesis has explored conditions for future user adoption of human body augmentation with digital implants. READ MORE

5. 4. Gendered commodification of human body parts : A study of the trade with hair from Indian women

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Lovisa Håkansson; [2020]
   Keywords : Commodification; Gender;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to illustrate how the phenomenon of trade with hair from Indian women, can be regarded as a case of gendered commodification of human body parts. It is illustrated with the assistance of postcolonial scholar Appadurai (1986), Scheper-Hughes (2001) and Sharp (2000) theories on commodification. READ MORE

6. 5. Bodies for Sale: Assessing the Features & Maintenance of Illicit Organ Markets

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Laura Belz; [2020]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Illicit organ markets coincides with medical advancements and greater global interconnectedness. Many organ vendors come from poor socioeconomic backgrounds and are coerced into the sale which lacks the altruistic notion often associated with transplantation. READ MORE