Essays about: "feminist framing"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 27 essays containing the words feminist framing.

  1. 21. Home Sweet Instagram; Images of home and interior framing an online community

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Johanna Willstedt Buchholtz; [2016]
    Keywords : Social Media; Instagram; Feminine culture; Personal Photography; Social Photography; Photography; Material Culture; Communication; Interior;

    Abstract : This thesis is focusing on a visual culture within Instagram where women display traditional western femininity through aesthetically pleasing images of homes and interiors. When observing this culture from a critical perspective, questions on normativity, gender and home representation together with the complexity of personal narratives comes up. READ MORE

  3. 22. Political Violence in Media: A case study of the media framing of the Kurdish female fighters in Northern Iraq and Syria

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Therése Lundmark; [2016]
    Keywords : Kurdish female fighters; YPJ; Peshmerga; critical discourse analysis; media framing; political violence;

    Abstract : The aim and purpose of this study is to explore how the Western media, more precisely six British newspapers, portrays the Kurdish female fighters of the Women’s Protection Units and the Peshmerga, who today are fighting against Deash in Northern Iraq and Syria. There have been a growing media interest in the Kurdish female fighters since the rise of Daesh, and they were an often recurring subject in newspapers and other media platforms during 2014 and 2015. READ MORE

  4. 23. 'Suddenly you are told that you are leaders.' The framing of leadership among members of feminist NGOs in New Delhi.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Inga Marie List; [2015]
    Keywords : Buzzword; Feminism; Feminist leadership; Feminist NGOs; Framing; India; Leadership; New Delhi; NGOisation; WPR; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Leadership is often proposed as a key solution for social change, although the actual meaning remains unclear. By studying leadership in the context of Indian feminist NGOs’ hybridity, situated in-between Western structures and the values of the Indian Women’s Movement, I intended to deepen our understanding of the lived meaning of leadership and followership, beyond its buzzword character. READ MORE

  5. 24. Constructions of Gender Equality in Swedish Family Policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Lovisa Lang; [2015]
    Keywords : Gender Equality; Parental Leave; Cash-for-Childcare; Family Policy; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Exploring problem representations in the policy discourses on the parental leave insurance and cash-for-childcare (CFC) allowance in Swedish parliamentary debates, this study aims to look into different meanings and problematizations attached to the concept of gender equality in Swedish family policy. Comparing the framing of problematizations in these policies, the objective is to uncover underlying normative assumptions, silences and contradictions relating to the concept of gender equality. READ MORE

  6. 25. Giving Birth : Debating Surrogate Motherhood in Sweden, A Question of Equality

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Malin Witkowsky; [2014]
    Keywords : surrogate motherhood; public debate; social problems; national context; women s rights; children s rights; equality; human value; family; separate spheres and hostile worlds;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study has been to identify, analyze and interpret the framing and meaning of the surrogacy debate in Sweden. The study is built on a textual analysis of statements produced within the political sphere on the topic (2001-2012), as well as within other public contexts by actors such as interest groups, different debaters and newspaper editorials (2010-2014). READ MORE