Essays about: "normative femininity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words normative femininity.

  1. 1. The Mother’S Complex Character In Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tove Welander; [2023]
    Keywords : feminist fiction; characterisation; Jeanette Winterson; gender norms; heterosexual norms; patriarchal structures.;

    Abstract : Jeanette Winterson’s debut novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is regarded as an epitome of feminist fiction. The novel centres around Jeanette, a young homosexual girl, and her mother Louie who does not accept her daughter’s sexuality. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gender and mental illness

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Katrine Senneby; [2020]
    Keywords : Gender; mental illness; gender differences; therapy;

    Abstract : AbstractThe following work is driven foremost by the confounding fact that so few men are seekinghelp concerning mental illness, even though men, by far, are the dominating gender instatistics regarding suicide. Upon reflection a line of questions arose mainly regardingwhether gender based differences could play a role in the way men and women expressmental illness and especially whether, and to what extent, gender affects treatment thereof. READ MORE

  4. 3. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Christina Tente; [2020]
    Keywords : voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

    Abstract : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Tjejer går inte i skogen och krigar – Klart man kan det" - En kvalitativ studie om kvinnors upplevelser och villkor under grundläggande militär utbildning i Sverige

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Lisa Eriksson; [2017]
    Keywords : swedish armed forces; military training; womens strategies in male-dominated arenas;

    Abstract : For a long time the military arena has been a context that is male-dominated and which even has been described as the arena that produces ideal forms of masculinity. This study examines the conditions for the women who choose to join the male-dominated military arena. READ MORE

  6. 5. The ‘Self-enterprising Care Taker’ on ‘Home Deployment’: Contesting Constructions of Femininity in Extended Military Family Deployment Support in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Fredrik Eklund; [2017]
    Keywords : Militarization; Sweden; Feminism; Gender; Military Family Deloyment Support; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study takes a critical feminist anti-militarist perspective on the function and purpose of the support that families of soldiers are provided by militaries during deployment. The context in focus is Swedish deployment support of extended families of soldiers, the material selected is from the website and the forum of the voluntary peer and mentor based support organization Invidzonen. READ MORE