Essays about: "depictions of femininity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words depictions of femininity.
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1. ‘We are not the same, sis’ : A qualitative study of the negotiation of femininity in online spaces
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The thesis examines how the logic of misogyny and post-feminism has perpetuated the negotiations of femininity in digital environments. Employing thematic analysis, the study explores online depictions of the phenomenon Not Like the Other Girls in order to explain its relation to internalized misogyny. READ MORE
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2. An economic room of one's own : A study of commercial femininity in Swedish beauty advertising 1930–1950
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Based in the rapidly changing economic and cultural rooms of 1930s and 1940s Sweden, this study consults beauty advertising to find how advertiser’s endeavours to reconcile industrial mass consumption with individuality looked in the weekly press and how depictions of femininity changed throughout the interwar period and into the early-post war era. Advertisements found in woman’s weekly magazine Husmodern were studied through a methodology combining theories on narrative and performance, finding that individuality in advertising 1930–1950 was largely achieved in the latter part of the period through an increasingly personal style of advertising, using tropes of friendship and community to inspire consumption in contrast to the anonymity of the earlier period. READ MORE
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3. Female Resistance in a World of Epic Heroes and Legendary Adventures : A feminist reading of Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero, inspired by Luce Irigaray’s “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine”
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : Literature is an important part of the curriculum of Swedish secondary school and The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is a popular novel among teenagers in Stockholm. This creates an opportunity to look closer at the novel, and to investigate the narrative’s discussion of the female, and in this particular case, its depictions of the female characters. READ MORE
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4. Gender bias and teachers in the EFL classroom in 4-6
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)Abstract : In the curriculum for the compulsory school it is stated that teachers should provide gender equal environments free from gender bias. Furthermore, some researchers suggests that the EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom in particular is an important place for the regulation and production of gender. READ MORE
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5. The Underdogs Strike Back : Usage of socialmedia platforms by female body activists to resist stigmatization
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : This study explores what female body activists aim to achieve by initiating and carrying out their movements on social media platforms. It also explores how female body activists make use of social media in their favor to challenge normative ideals of femininity and resist stigmatization of female body fat and hair. READ MORE
