Essays about: "female subjectivity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words female subjectivity.

  1. 1. Intersectional Perspectives in The Bluest Eye and “Recitatif”

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Victoria Helin; [2023]
    Keywords : Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye; “Recitatif”; Intersectionality; white privilege; essentialism; white beauty standards; black female subjectivity;

    Abstract : This study examines intersectionality, white privilege and essentialism in Toni Morrison’s stories The Bluest Eye and “Recitatif”. Moreover, intersectional markers are taken into consideration to analyze how the characters are advantaged or disadvantaged in the white dominant society of the two novels. READ MORE

  3. 2. “I’m not a Final Girl” An intersectional character analysis of Jade in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw and its pedagogical implications in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Jens Nilsson; [2023]
    Keywords : My Heart Is a Chainsaw; Final Girl; Intersectional Framework; identity; marginalization; alienation; empowerment; EFL classroom;

    Abstract : The following essay applies an intersectional lens to the character analysis of Jade, the main character in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021), as it aims to introduce EFL students to the principles of the intersectional theory framework. As Jade, as a way of dealing with her reality as an abused and marginalized young part-Native American adolescent, obsessively frames her real-life experiences in a slasher movie context, the novel explores the themes of identity, marginalization, empowerment through the way Jade sees herself in relation to the Final Girl: the archetypal female protagonist featured in slasher movies. READ MORE

  4. 3. Be Proud of Your Menstruation! A case study of commodity feminist discourse in mainland China.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Yiyun Zhu; [2022]
    Keywords : Menstruation; Femvertising; Regional adaption; Orientalism; Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Adopting a critical discourse analysis approach, this study presents a case study around the “Menstruation should not be hidden” campaign launched by the Swedish brand, Libresse, in the Chinese market. With the aim to explore how does the brand strategically use female empowering discourse to construct new meanings of menstruation for a regional market, and the socio-cultural factors involved. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Atlas of Two Women: A Methodological Exploration for Seeing and Interpreting the Symptomatic Visual Motif

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Tatuli Japoshvili; [2022]
    Keywords : two women; female subjectivity; Irigaray; Benjamin; Warburg; Didi-Huberman; Arts and Architecture; Philosophy and Religion; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the under-recognised yet symptomatic visual motif of two women, a recurring theme within a vast array of pictorial examples. Its primary objective is to construct a theoretical and methodological framework capable of comprehending the multiplicity of images in the form of an image collection: The Atlas of Two Women. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Ecocritical Instapoet: Digital Media Ecofeminist Poetry

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Yara Gawrieh Ekmark; [2022]
    Keywords : Instapoetry; Digital Media; Ecofeminism; Metamodernism; Rupi Kaur; Poetic Sympathies; Activism; Environmental Humanities; Instagram.;

    Abstract : In recent years, a new poetry genre has emerged, currently known as Instapoetry, and its chief practitioners are often young females (Pâquet 2019). Instapoetry has many characteristics influenced by the nature of the Instagram platform on which it is published, such as its brevity and its inclusion of visual effects with the text. READ MORE