Essays about: "portrayals"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 142 essays containing the word portrayals.

  1. 21. Private Women with Public Opinions : Negotiating Gender in Early Modern Fashion Magazines

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Nele Popp; [2023]
    Keywords : gender perceptions; fashion magazines; public and private spheres; Habermas; female authors; late eighteenth century; early nineteenth century; gender roles;

    Abstract : This thesis researches the construction of gender ideals for the new Middle Class and women’s involvement in the same by analysing fashion magazines published in Germany and Sweden between 1786 to 1827 and 1818 to 1844, respectively. The analysis consists of two parts: first, the share of women’s involvement in the public sphere as defined by Habermas as well as the justification of the inclusion of female-written texts and second, the nature of gender ideals in relation to the separate spheres’ framework. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Killing Agent : A comparative transitivity analysis of US news headlines regarding killings of and by the civilian and the police officer

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Wendela Rikardsdotter; [2023]
    Keywords : Agency; America; Authority; News; Critical Discourse Analysis; CDA; Media; USA; Police Brutality;

    Abstract : Due to its status and reach, media discourse can shape its reader's perspective on social actors and events, for good and for worse. This thesis investigates 100 headlines retrieved via searches in the NOW corpus, of which 50 portray killings of police officers by civilians and 50 portray the opposite, killings of civilians by police officers. READ MORE

  4. 23. Color-Blindness in Swedish Media? : A Comparative Study of Media's Portrayal of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Hugo Lindqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Migration; Media; Race; Racism; Syria; Ukraine;

    Abstract : A comparative study on how Swedish media portrayed Syrian refugees in 2015 compared to how the same media portrayed Ukrainian refugees in 2022. This paper presents a thematic analysis of seventynine newspaper articles published in 2015 and 2022 by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. READ MORE

  5. 24. In Bondage at the Bottom of Hierarchy : A Study of Female Victimisation and the Exploitation of the Poor in Crime and Punishment

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Josefin Lann; [2023]
    Keywords : Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Crime and Punishment; Marxism; feminism; class struggle; female victimisation; double oppression;

    Abstract : This study investigates the societal tribulations of impoverished men and women in nineteenth-century St Petersburg in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The analysis is centred around the novel’s portrayals of class struggle, female victimisation, and double oppression in capitalist and patriarchal society. READ MORE

  6. 25. Sexy Women and Unmanly Men : Representations of Librarians Onscreen

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Camille Nampetch; [2023]
    Keywords : librarian representation; hegemonic masculinity; the male gaze;

    Abstract : This study investigates the representations of librarians in movies spanning from the years 2012 to 2022 from a gender perspective using thematic analysis. Being a female-dominated profession with an increasing use of technology, the goal is to see how librarians are being portrayed today and how that might affect the perceptions of librarianship. READ MORE