Essays about: "female soldiers"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words female soldiers.
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6. The Silent Aftermath of the Second World War - Ethical Loneliness in Rape Survivors
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis engages with the issue of the post-WWII rapes of women in Germany committed by the soldiers of the winning parties that occupied Germany after the war. It asks how female survivors of sexual violence during the occupation of Germany in 1945-1949 experienced social responses towards their violation. READ MORE
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7. “Follow us into basic training” - Discourse analysis on the construction of female soldiers in the German Armed Forces’ recruitment advertising
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : After ending the formal exclusion of women from the German Armed Forces (GAF) in 2000, female soldiers continued to retain an outsider status through a marginalizing visual representation in public self-imaging by the GAF. For this reason, the research explores whether the currently constructed image of public self-advertising alters the previous exclusionary practice. READ MORE
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8. The Digital Myth of Women on The Battlefield : A Reception Analysis of Female Soldiers in the Online Discourse of Battlefield V
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : Lately, the trailer for the game “Battlefield V” received a massive backlash from the players of the Battlefield franchise due to the fact that the game inspired by World War II featured a woman as the main character. This research set out to investigate how female elements are interpreted in a traditional male-dominated digital space, and aims to highlight the elements to consider when introducing a female lead character in a video game. READ MORE
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9. 'Dangerous Beauty' : a feminist analysis of the U.S. and the U.K. media’s portrayal of female soldiers through the case of Private First Class Lynndie England
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand how, and why, the media is sustaining traditional gender norms in their portrayal of female soldiers. The primary material of the study consists of articles published by newspapers in the United States and the United Kingdom, describing PFC. Lynndie England and her actions in the Abu Ghraib scandal. READ MORE
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10. ‘Martyrs and Heroines’ vs. ‘Victims and Suicide Attackers’. A Critical Discourse Analysis of YPJ’s and the UK media representations of the YPJ’s ideological agency
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The present thesis compares media representations of Yekîneyên Parastina Jin (YPJ or the Women’s Protection Units), an all-female Kurdish military organisation, in British media versus the organisation’s own media outlets, with the aim to see how they differ, more specifically in terms of representations of their ideological agency. By utilizing critical discourse analysis (CDA) in combination with postcolonial theory, the media construction of four soldiers’ deaths have been scrutinized in 30 media texts in order to provide a deeper understanding of the hegemonic discourses and sociocultural practices which underpin these constructions. READ MORE
