Essays about: "female subordination"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words female subordination.

1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
   Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

3. 2. PUNK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SECOND SEX; An anthropological study of gender roles and gender equality in the Swedish punk scene in 2023

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Agnes Jansson; [2023-09-27]
   Keywords : feminism; gender; punk; female musicians; tokenism; homosociality;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates female punk musicians’ experiences of the punk scene in Sweden, focusing on the construction of gender and gender roles among bands of the genre in 2023, as well as the treatment of the minority of female musicians. According to my participants’ beliefs, I also point towards what can still be done to improve gender equality in the Swedish punk scene. READ MORE

4. 3. “(…) we’re treated like children when it comes to external matters, while, inwardly, we’re much older than other girls our age”. : – A generational and queer reading of the diary of Anne Frank.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; Rakel Gyberg; [2023]
   Keywords : nonconformity; generational; gender; Anne Frank; discourse;

   Abstract : In this thesis, a generational and a queer reading were conducted on Anne Frank’s diary latest edition, containing substantial parts that were omitted in earlier editions. The aim was to contextualize the negotiation of discourses in relation to Anne’s nonconformity to the time in which she lived as a child (generational) and her girlhood (gender). READ MORE

5. 4. Women’s Careers: Challenges and Opportunities in the Swedish Energy Industry

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Elsa Francke; Hanna Kakavandy; [2022]
   Keywords : Gender Equality; Women’s Careers; Challenge; Opportunity; Discrimination; Social Sustainability; Energy Industry; Sweden.; Jämställdhet; Kvinnors karriärer; Utmaning; Möjlighet; Diskriminering; Social hållbarhet; Energibranschen; Sverige;

   Abstract : Practices to promote gender equality and equal opportunities for men and women have become an important part of many organizations' agenda. However, women are still experiencing challenges in career advancement to a larger extent than men. This is due to structural, cultural and societal factors and other types of discrimination against women. READ MORE

6. 5. A Gender Perspective on Corporate Entrepreneurship - Closing the gender gap(s) in Corporate Innovation: Understanding Intrapreneurship as Position-taking

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Isabelle Edenborg; [2022]
   Keywords : corporate entrepreneurship; intrapreneurship; innovation; gender; Bourdieu;

   Abstract : Increasing women's representation in innovation, as the foremost source of economic growth and technological development, has been on the agenda amongst policy-makers and corporations for years. Despite this, research on corporate entrepreneurship, as an increasingly applied strategy for innovation and business renewal, and the interrelated intrapreneurship concept, are signified by gender blindness. READ MORE