Essays about: "female history"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 122 essays containing the words female history.

  1. 21. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Felicity Markdal; [2022]
    Keywords : Agender; Non-binary; Phenomenology; Genderqueer; Alchemy; Eidetic reduction; Queer theory; Husserl; Braidotti; Irigaray;

    Abstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE

  3. 22. ‘The Gaps Between Stories’ : Examining the Gray Area of Sexual Consent in The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Paulina Sundqvist; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This project’s aim was to examine how the institutionalization of rape and sexual violence becomes problematic if analyzed through the conceptual lens of consent and complicity. After this close reading of consent and sexual violence, the answers are still not clear or easily discerned. READ MORE

  4. 23. Liberté, Égalité, Bien Habillée : Feminine socio-cultural norms from a fashion magazine in the context of the French Directoire, 1797–99

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Chiara Arghittu; [2022]
    Keywords : Fashion history; French Revolution; Directoire; Directory; Journal des Dames et des Modes; Gender history; Political history; Histoire de la mode; Révolution française; Directoire; Journal des Dames et des Modes; Histoire du genre; Histoire politique;

    Abstract : The Journal des Dames et des Modes started its publication in 1797 and was de facto the only popular and lasting fashion magazine aimed towards women since the fall of its predecessor, even prior to 1789. This study argues that this fashion magazine both reflected and constituted the mindset of the new regime’s elite. READ MORE

  5. 24. Fine-scale recombination landscape in the wood white butterfly Leptidea sinapis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Aleix Palahí i Torres; [2021]
    Keywords : recombination; butterfly; Leptidea; population;

    Abstract : Recombination is a genetic process of extreme importance in evolutionary biology. It creates novel haplotypes and breaks down existing ones, and can affect the levels of genetic diversity and the efficacy of selection. It also plays an important role in the evolution of sex chromosomes and the divergence process leading to speciation. READ MORE

  6. 25. Life history and reproductive fitness variation associated with the Y chromosome in Callosobruchus maculatus

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ekologi och genetik

    Author : Maria Revenikioti; [2021]
    Keywords : Y chromosome; life-history traits; seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus; reproductive fitness;

    Abstract : In the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus, the female is the larger sex and the male is the smaller sex. However, males that are almost as large as females can also occur, which is due to a specific Y chromosome haplotype. READ MORE