Essays about: "normativities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word normativities.

  1. 1. To protect and serve… …everyone, including their own or the Norm? : - An exploration of gender normativities in testimonies of sexual harassment inside the Swedish police force.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Emma Pilevång Bergqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Gender equality; gender normativities; heteronormativity; stereotyping; gender binary; sexuality; heterosexual matrix; Swedish Police.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyze and trace gender normativities and stereotypes in the testimoniesfrom the #metoo call #nödvärn (2017) and #nödvärn 2.0 (n.d) in Sweden within the policedepartment. This thesis includes a qualitative thematic analysis of the material combined witha positioning theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. Undoing Gender Interpellations in Role-Playing Videogame Spaces : The case of Cyberpunk 2077 as a case of resistance from a feminist post-constructionist perspective

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Anna Militsi; [2021]
    Keywords : posthuman cyborg; autoethnography; video games; cyberculture;

    Abstract : This Thesis is pertinent to the negotiations of sex, gender, and sexuality in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 and the narratives the gamer traverses while on the game, and aimed to add to the literature regarding the entanglements of gender and technology within the virtual world of the video games.This Thesis focused on investigating the potential of technocultural assemblages to undo gender (and racial) interpellations, and more specifically in regard to the assemblages that are formed between (post)human and avatar in first-person video games that allow the user to create their character with a great deal of freedom. READ MORE

  4. 3. Bodies out/in Place? Unmapping Trans People’s Experience in Outdoor Activities

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Bart Bloem Herraiz; [2019-08-26]
    Keywords : Trans; Outdoor; Body Experience; Counter-geographies; Queering Methodology;

    Abstract : Scrutiny over trans people's bodies in urban contexts is continuous. This thesis develops the idea that the outdoors offers a less-gendered space for trans people, enabling and empowering them to escape self-surveillance processes and to feel freer in their gender expression/identity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Weight(,) trouble and intersectional subjectivities : Capturing children´s corporeal experiences with body normativities in Austrian schools

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Forum för genusvetenskap och jämställdhet

    Author : Claudia Koller; [2019]
    Keywords : Body weight; normativities; intersectionality; troubled subject positions; juvenile health promotion;

    Abstract : This study looks at school children´s intersectional experience with weight norms and tries to give insights on the issue of body normativities, from a feminist sport scientist point of view. Its purpose is to inform good practice in juvenile health education on the one hand and to contribute with intersectional feminist insights to the interdisciplinary dialogue on body weight and health on the other. READ MORE

  6. 5. Placing Heteronormativity : A micro-geographical approach to the school as a space of heteronormative (re)production

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Matthew Smith; [2016]
    Keywords : heteronormativity; children s geographies; non-heterosexual; sexualities; LGBTQ; masculinities; youth; micro-geographies; school; social re production; normativities; embodiment; performativity;

    Abstract : Within children's geographies there has been an absence concerning sexuality and in particular how this can lead to the discimination and marginalisation of individuals. Similarly, within geographies of sexualities the demographic of non-heterosexual children and youth has been under researched, with studies concerning the space of the school being very limited. READ MORE