Essays about: "femcel"

Found 2 essays containing the word femcel.

1. 1. Going To Bed Now: Dissociation Feminism and Implicit Critique in My Year of Rest and Relaxation

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Bäckström; [2023]
   Keywords : Docile body; The Culture Industry; Dissociation Feminism; Femcel; Sedation; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Ottessa Moshfegh;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine how the novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018 / 2019) by Ottessa Moshfegh, through the lens of dissociative feminism, can be interpreted as a critique regarding commodification of the body. To explore this claim, I discuss the protagonist’s dissociative feminist behaviour in contrast to her friend Reva’s femcel-behaviour. READ MORE

3. 2. The Lack of Love : The Sacred and the Suffering Experiences of Female Involuntary Celibates

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Maria Brix Rasmussen; [2023]
   Keywords : femcel; Forever Alone Women; FAW; incel; involuntary celibacy; love; online environment; online community; lookism; objectively ugliness; Reddit; Discord; phenomenology; orientation; ethnology; ethnography;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study investigates the reality of female involuntary celibates. To understand how the identification of being a female involuntary celibate has developed online in a shared online environment, I explore the experiences from women who identify as femcels and women who identity as forever alone women. READ MORE