Essays about: "masculinization"

Found 5 essays containing the word masculinization.

  1. 1. Women in leadership and sexual violence : A case study of the role of women in FARC

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Julia Eriksson; [2017]
    Keywords : Peace; conflict; gender; sexual violence; FARC; Colombia; rape; masculinization; militarization;

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  3. 2. Democratic Strength and Cowardly Barbarism? : a discourse-theoretic study on the gendering of terrorism in the Swedish political discourse

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Emelie Svensson; [2016]
    Keywords : gender; masculinity; femininity; terrorism; terrorists; Daesh; Sweden; EU; discourse; nationalism; self; other;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to map out the gendered constructions of terrorism and terrorists within the Swedish political discourse. The starting point of the research are the recent terror attacks in Paris 2015 and in Brussels 2016, a time at which the Swedish government presented a number of new and more aggressive counterterrorism strategies for combating terrorism and Daesh. READ MORE

  4. 3. Spineless Men and Irrepressible Women? : Gender Norm Destabilizing Performances in The Scarlet Letter and My Ántonia

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Sandra Johansson; [2015]
    Keywords : Gender performances; gender role norms; expectations; masculinization; feminization; feminism;

    Abstract : Both The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and My Ántonia by Willa Cather depict characters that perform non-traditional gender roles. In these novels, there are expectations about how women and men should act. READ MORE

  5. 4. (Re)situating Women in Irish Revolutionary History by (Re)Doing Undone Gender : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sean O'Faolain's Biography "Constance Markievicz".

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : John Woodlock; [2014]
    Keywords : patriarchy; objectivity; participation; allegory; visibility; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The production of knowledge and claims of objectivity in Irish revolutionary historical narratives are discursively gendered processes which maintain a power-differentiation between the sexes through the assignment of a hierarchy of significance to the participation of men and women in the Irish struggles for independence. The partial visibility of women in such historical accounts is discursively maintained by the masculinization of Irish historical knowledge production where nationalist revolutionary discourses have been articulated by men as male-only spaces, preserving a hegemonic male-hero image. READ MORE

  6. 5. Gender and Sexuality Construction in Korean Idol Fan Fiction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Rywon An; [2010]
    Keywords : Fan fiction; Anal Sex; Binary; Gender Performance; Fantasy; Materialization; Gender Parody; Homoeroticism; Idol; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : My research analysis constitutes the construction of gender and sexuality specifically in the category of Top/Bottom in Korean idol fan fictions. Most of the previous researches focus on the feminization of Bottom that women follow the heterosexual norms through the feminized Bottom although they read and write homoerotic fan fictions. READ MORE