Essays about: "post colonial feminism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words post colonial feminism.

1. 1. Feminist Revolutionary Advocacy in the Afghanistan Conflict Context : A Qualitative Content Analysis of a Political Feminist Organization RAWA’s Documents and Statements

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Pinja Suorsa; [2023]
   Keywords : Afghanistan s conflicts; Post-colonial feminism; Third World Women; Orientalism; Qualitative content analysis;

   Abstract : This study explores how feminism and women’s rights as concepts can look in Afghanistan and how a political organization RAWA interprets them. This study focuses on specific armed conflict contexts in Afghanistan, and it was chosen because women’s rights have been violated by many actors in the conflicts. READ MORE

3. 2. The Meaning of Gender Issues as Narrated and Negotiated by Activists in Mozambique

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Karina Squiassi; [2022]
   Keywords : Civil society in Mozambique; Civil society in Africa; post-colonial feminism; feminist participatory democracy; gender relations; women’s human rights; rights communication.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Feminist activism in Mozambique has suffered dramatic changes throughout the many socio-political processes the country has encountered. Consequently, the activists in civil society still struggle to fight against patriarchal oppression, political repression, and socio-cultural norms that hinder women's full realization of their rights. READ MORE

4. 3. The neoliberal dream of RUT : An analysis of constructions of equality within the Swedish parliamentary debate

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

   Author : Hanna Ljungberg; [2022]
   Keywords : RUT; equality; social exclusion; neo liberalism; parliamentary debates; WPR-analysis;

   Abstract : The buying of domestic services in Sweden has become an increasingly privatized practice, something that correlates with the global feminization and racialisation of domestic labour. Although RUT deductions within the domestic sector historically have been a criticised phenomenon, it is today representing a politically normalised labour market measure. READ MORE

5. 4. Mobilising for gender equality in (post)conflict Democratic Republic of Congo: The case of the Rien Sans Les Femmes Movement

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

   Author : Yvonne Jila; [2021]
   Keywords : DRC; post-colonial feminism; social movement; RSLF; mobilizing.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of different kinds of movements across the globe as citizens agitate for economic, socio-political and environmental change. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the country has been involved in a series of wars, attention has rather been eschewed towards the rape and sexual violence of women and girls. READ MORE

6. 5. "A mother never stops waiting" : Exploring Motherhood as an Identity Marker in Social Movements

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Miriam Steinbach; Victoria Särnhult; [2021]
   Keywords : communication for development; feminism; gender equality; Latin America; migration; motherhood; private and public spheres; social movements;

   Abstract : The movement Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos; a transnational social movement uniting Central American mothers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua whose children have disappeared in Mexico while migrating to the US, is part of a Latin American tradition where a mother-centered kinship system is at the center. The movement has managed to reunite more than 300 families. READ MORE