Essays about: "feminine thinking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words feminine thinking.

  1. 1. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  3. 2. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Felicity Markdal; [2022]
    Keywords : Agender; Non-binary; Phenomenology; Genderqueer; Alchemy; Eidetic reduction; Queer theory; Husserl; Braidotti; Irigaray;

    Abstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE

  4. 3. Rational Femininity and Emotional Masculinity in Golding’s Lord of the Flies  

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Stefanos Mavromatis; [2021]
    Keywords : gender; traditional gender roles; feminine thinking; masculine thinking; patriarchy; William Golding; Lord of the Flies;

    Abstract : This paper argues that in Golding’s Lord of the Flies feminine thinking is rational and masculine thinking is emotional. This essay provides historical background that presents the general patriarchal view of femininity during 20th century England of being seen as the inferior-emotional gender with intellectual limitations. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Power of Environmental Vegetarianism

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Uppsala centrum för hållbar utveckling, CSD Uppsala

    Author : Carolin Laier; [2020]
    Keywords : Environmental Vegetarianism; Ethical Vegetarianism; Ecofeminism; Meat Consumption; Hegemonic Masculinity; Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : The idea of the human as a rational man is deeply engrained into the thinking and the construction of the human culture within industrialized societies. It enables the domination and commodification of nonhuman species and the natural world (the Other). READ MORE

  6. 5. DECONSTRUCTING GENDER - How to Teach Gender and Feminist Pedagogy using Stephenie Meyer's Life and Death in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Sarah Ahlung; [2017-09-05]
    Keywords : feminist pedagogy; gender theory; gender swap; gender stereotypes;

    Abstract : Research done by The Swedish National Agency for Education shows students being treated and assessed differently. Various demands and expectations are placed on them based on their gender. Schools thus have a responsibility and a duty to counterbalance conventional and stereotypical gender patterns. READ MORE