Essays about: "femaleness"

Found 4 essays containing the word femaleness.

  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. The priestess ascending: subversion and hegemony in Wiccan constructions of gender

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Manon Hedenborg White; [2012]
    Keywords : Wicca; gender; femininity; Butler; Connell; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The image of the priestess in Wicca, a duotheistic Pagan mystery and witchcraft tradition founded in the mid-20th century by British civil servant Gerald Gardner, has changed dramatically during the last few decades. Wiccans work together in autonomous groups, traditionally lead by a High Priestess and a High Priest. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gender and Sexuality Construction in Korean Idol Fan Fiction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Rywon An; [2010]
    Keywords : Fan fiction; Anal Sex; Binary; Gender Performance; Fantasy; Materialization; Gender Parody; Homoeroticism; Idol; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : My research analysis constitutes the construction of gender and sexuality specifically in the category of Top/Bottom in Korean idol fan fictions. Most of the previous researches focus on the feminization of Bottom that women follow the heterosexual norms through the feminized Bottom although they read and write homoerotic fan fictions. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sexist Language : Gender marking of occupational terms and the non-parallel treatment of boy and girl

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Sophia Magnusson; [2008]
    Keywords : Sexist language; female marking; non-parallel treatment; boy; girl;

    Abstract : In everyday life women are exposed to sexist language. Terms and usages that exclude or discriminate women are referred to as sexist language. This takes into account that one presumes that maleness is the standard, the norm, and that femaleness is the non-standard, or the exception. READ MORE