Essays about: "heterosexuality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the word heterosexuality.
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1. Gender Performativity and Compulsory Heterosexuality in L.M. Montgomery´s Anne of Green Gables
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : This essay will demonstrate how the character Anne from Anne of Green Gables is open to multiple interpretations. I specifically look at the character Anne from the perspective of gender and queer theory. Anne can be read as someone who has both feminine and masculine traits. READ MORE
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2. Gender, Sexuality, Race, Nationality, and Religion in Greek Education. : A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Political Education Schoolbook.
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : Feminist and Educational research on schoolbooks in the Greek educational context has discussed the ways in which gender or nationality or religion are being portrayed but has failed to touch upon sexuality and race (and other categories) and deploy an intersectional feminist perspective in their approaches, focusing only on one category. This thesis aims to fill the gap identified in the literature and investigate the portrayal and intersection of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and religion in the discourses of selected texts of the Political Education schoolbook used in the first grade of highschool and the ways in which this portrayal and intersection challenges or reinforces hegemonic exclusionary discourses, power dynamics and hierarchies. READ MORE
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3. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. READ MORE
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4. “(…) we’re treated like children when it comes to external matters, while, inwardly, we’re much older than other girls our age”. : – A generational and queer reading of the diary of Anne Frank.
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema BarnAbstract : In this thesis, a generational and a queer reading were conducted on Anne Frank’s diary latest edition, containing substantial parts that were omitted in earlier editions. The aim was to contextualize the negotiation of discourses in relation to Anne’s nonconformity to the time in which she lived as a child (generational) and her girlhood (gender). READ MORE
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5. Do Homophobic Slurs Reinforce Heteronormativity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Homophobic Slurs and Epithets in Film
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Homophobic slurs can reinforce the hegemonic view of heteronormativity, namelythat heterosexuality is the preferable sexuality (Peake, 2013). The aim of this study was toexamine whether a societal heteronormative ideal is strengthened or created by the presenceof homophobic slurs in film scenes, and also whether or not this has changed over time. READ MORE
