Essays about: "performative gender"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 essays containing the words performative gender.

1. 1. The Many Identities of Trinidadian Women in Earl Lovelace’s Salt

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Marcelina Maria Dudys; [2023]
   Keywords : female characters; postcolonialism; the carnivalesque; polyphony; mimicry;

   Abstract : This essay aims to explore the identities of a selection of female characters in Earl Lovelace’s novel Salt. My research questions are the following: How are the selected characters’ hybrid identities constructed? What role do different circumstances play in the formation of the characters’ identities? How do polyphony, mimicry and the carnivalesque affect their identities? Although the examined women are assumed to conform to similar gender norms, I argue that there is no common female role in Salt. READ MORE

3. 2. ‘Safeguarding moral decency’: A Queer discourse analysis of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s sexualized discourses and boundary-making in the Russian-Ukraine war

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Johanna Rasmusson; [2023]
   Keywords : Putin; discourse; gender identity; sexuality; national belonging; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates discourses on sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression in national addresses performed by Russian President Vladimir Putin since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It applies an embedded approach of Critical Discourse Analysis and Queer Linguistics to disseminate how such discourses are produced by Putin in the war. READ MORE

4. 3. The Influence of the Green-Feminine Stereotype - Understanding Cis Men’s Motivational Representation and Gender Identity Performance in the Context of Pro-Environmental Consumption

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Erika Winblad von Walter; [2022-08-04]
   Keywords : sustainable consumption; pro-environmental consumption; Butlerian gender performativity; motivational representation; gender identity maintenance; masculinity; the green-feminine stereotype;

   Abstract : The role of gender in shaping attitudes toward pro-environmental consumption is understudied and an enhanced understanding of the issue is called for by multiple scholars. Previous literature point to a green-feminine stereotype in which there is a cognitive link between pro-environmental consumption and femininity. READ MORE

5. 4. Body Positive Content on TikTok : A Critical Study on How Body Positive Content on Social Media Can Reinforce Body Negative Discourses

   University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Jonna Bayliss Larsen-Ledet; [2022]
   Keywords : Body positivity; body positive movement; body negativity; Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis; TikTok;

   Abstract : This critical study examines how TikTok content from body positive trends may influence power relations and reinforce female body negative discourses. The study takes its departure primarily in Michel Foucault. However, additional researchers were brought in to expand on Foucault’s ideas by e.g. READ MORE

6. 5. The Joy of Not Fitting In – An Essay on How Non-binary People Accomplish Gender Euphoria

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Frederik Kramer Kluw; [2022]
   Keywords : Non-binary; Gender Euphoria; Masculinity Femininity; Internet-ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Doing gender; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how gender euphoria is constructed by non-binary people, and how these experiences are embedded in ideas of masculinities and femininities. The theoretical point of departure involves the theorization of “doing gender” by West and Zimmerman, concepts from ethnomethodology inspired by Liberman, and finally “performative acts” by Butler. READ MORE