Essays about: "life of a girl"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words life of a girl.
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1. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. READ MORE
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2. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE
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3. "Life is better when you girlboss together" : Building a Safe Space Within the Digital Sphere, a Case Study
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The study is located in feminist studies through the lens of cultural theory, more specifically in the area of "Girlhood studies", developed in the 1990s. The development of the field correlates with the rise of cultural goods targeted at girls: movies, music, and magazines as well as the development of teenagehood as an identity of its own right. READ MORE
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4. Man(ners) Maketh Woman : An Analysis of Dutch Male-Authored Women’s Advice Literature
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis analyses Adriaan Loosjes’ De Vrouw in de Vier Tijdperken Haars Levens (’The Woman inthe Four Stages of her Life’) and Gozewijn de Greuve’s Wilhelmina, een Handboek voor het VrouwelijkeGeslacht (‘Wilhelmina, a Guide for the Female Sex’). These two works of male-authored adviceliterature for women in the early nineteenth-century Netherlands are analysed in order to researchthe construction of gender. READ MORE
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5. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE
