Essays about: "breaking gender roles"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words breaking gender roles.

  1. 1. Breaking the Bell Jar: Teaching Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Feminist Literary Criticism to Upper Secondary School Students

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jeanette Rolfsson; [2022]
    Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; feminist literary criticism; literature teaching; upper secondary school; English education; ESL; mental health; fundamental values; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equality, but also the topic of mental health. READ MORE

  3. 2. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Lina Killmer; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

    Abstract : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. READ MORE

  4. 3. "Express yourself in new ways" - wait, not like that : A semiotic analysis of norm-breaking pictures on Instagram

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Andrea Bille Pettersson; Aino Vauhkonen; [2020]
    Keywords : social media; norms; roles; gender; self-representation; digital activism; censorship; female sexuality; women stereotyping;

    Abstract : Instagram, as one of today’s largest social media platforms, plays a significant part in the maintaining and reproducing of existing stereotypes and role expectations for women. The purpose of the thesis is to study how Instagram interprets violations against its guidelines, and whether decisions to remove certain pictures from the platform are in line with terms of use, or part of human subjectivity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Women’s climate change advocacy in Kiribati: vulnerability, agency and storytelling

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Pippa Haughton; [2020]
    Keywords : communications; development; ComDev; feminism; Climate change; Communications for development; Gender; Kiribati; Pacific islands; Advocacy;

    Abstract : Climate change has hit the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati hard over the past decade, with unreliable weather patterns, drought, flooding and king tides all affecting the homes, health and livelihoods of residents. As the effects of climate change increase, women are rising up as advocates, fighting for action on mitigation and adaptation strategies locally and internationally. READ MORE

  6. 5. Do men have any influence in stopping women and girls from undergoing FGM in Sierra Leone? The case of Mabonkani Village in Bombali District

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Thabile Lorraine Sheila Cele; [2020]
    Keywords : Female Genital Mutilation; human rights; traditional harmful practices; social norms and gender inequality.;

    Abstract : ABSTRACT “FGM is known to have no health benefits and has serious, immediate and long-term physical and psychological health consequences, which can be severe, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and reduced desire or sexual satisfaction” (28 Too Many, 2014, p5). This master thesis is an attempt to gain male perspectives in strategies to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. READ MORE