Essays about: "girl"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 175 essays containing the word girl.

1. 21. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes; [2022-05-20]
   Keywords : indigenous justice; indigenous women; indigenous girls; Guatemala; legal pluralism; feminism; human rights; women’s rights; indigenous peoples’ rights;

   Abstract : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. READ MORE

3. 22. She's not like other girls; she is a cool girl : A qualitative study on the portrayal of female characters as the cool girl in films

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Olivia Josefina Larsson Säberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Media; film studies; gender roles; stereotypes; representation; sexism;

   Abstract : Society's view on women is a long-debated topic, and there are several studies made to analyze where and how these attitudes toward gender roles arise. This thesis focuses on how women are portrayed and represented in media, especially as female characters in film fiction, to gain insight into what effect this can have on society's view of women. READ MORE

4. 23. Good Girl, Wife or Foreign Fighter - Danish Media Constructions of women in ISIS

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Camilla Gissel; [2022]
   Keywords : ISIS; Female foreign fighters; Social Problems Theory; Narrative Criminology; ISIS bride; Betrayal; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Women who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, have been understood as serving passive and largely supportive roles in ISIS state-building by media and, to a far extent, academia. Academia has argued that the passive role evolves into active participation in weaponed combat and planning of attacks. READ MORE

5. 24. THE BLOODY STIGMA IS STILL HERE, PERIOD.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Olha Boiko; Lien Carrez; [2022]
   Keywords : menstrual stigma; menstruation; period; menstrual concealment; knowledge; education; sex education; Sweden; high school;

   Abstract : iAbstractThis exploratory study aims to investigate the connection between menstrual perceptions,knowledge and education about menstruation as well as the period product choice. Using thefeminist approach, research data were gathered from three focus groups of girls between 14 and15 years old that went to the same high school in Visby (Sweden). READ MORE

6. 25. GENDER DISPARITY IN EDUCATION

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Oritsema Chidi; [2021-08-18]
   Keywords : Gender; School; Girl Child; Gender Inequality; Education; Gender Disparity; Gender Equality; Boys and Women;

   Abstract : Aim: This single case qualitative study addresses the girl child education, focusing on parents' perceptions of the girl child enrolment into elementary school and factors that might have contributed to gender disparity in education which remains a problem in Kano state Nigeria. Theory: In order to understand gender disparity in education, the theoretical lens has feminist epistemology as its point of departure, which focuses on understanding the oppression experienced by women to proffer solutions leading to change in all endeavours of life that leads to equal opportunities for all. READ MORE