Essays about: "post-colonial feminism"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words post-colonial feminism.

  1. 6. Gender and Land Grabbing - A post-colonial feminist discussion about the consequences of land grabbing in Rift Valley Kenya

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ylva Zetterlund; [2013]
    Keywords : land grabbing; gender; post-colonialism; Rift Valley; women; land rights; capabilities; feminism;

    Abstract : This study has the aim to analyze what impacts land grabbing in Rift Valley, Kenya, has on rural poor, as it is perceived from a gendered perspective. Land acquisitions, or land grabbing, is a growing global phenomenon, where companies and states (foreign and domestic) are claiming land for investments, to secure the growing demand for food and biofuels, with neg-ative impacts on the rural population. READ MORE

  3. 7. Politics of Reproduction: A Post-Colonial Feminist Analysis of the 'Missing Girl' Phenomenon in India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Rini Fernandes; [2013]
    Keywords : missing girls; politics of reproduction; sex-selective abortion; modernity; PNDT Act 1994; New Reproductive Technologies NRTs ; population policy discourse; post-colonial feminism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract: The controversial issue of ‘missing girls’ has been a cause of concern since the time of the British rule in India. Most research studies pointed towards a demographic pattern of its occurrence, the Northwestern plains of India saw an alarming scarcity of girl children. READ MORE

  4. 8. When Silenced Voices Meet Homi. K. Bhabha’s “Megaphone”

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Linjing Liu; [2012]
    Keywords : postcolonial; subaltern studies; identity; hybridity; sati;

    Abstract : Drawing upon Homi. K. Bhabha's essay A Personal Response and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can The Subaltern Speak? I initiated my research project When the Silenced Voices Meet Homi. K. READ MORE

  5. 9. From Slave Wife of the Gods to " ke te pam tem eng". Trokosi seen through the Eyes of the Participants

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Author : Sofia Wiking; [2009]
    Keywords : Human rights; women’s rights; feminism; post colonial feminism; religious education; human right’s education; Ghana; minor field study; religious cultural traditional practice;

    Abstract : AbstractThis final essay in religious studies at Malmö Lärarutbildningen (Teacher’s education) is a minor field study (MFS) carried out in Ghana about Trokosi. Trokosi is a tradition, system and practice where young girls are given to village shrine priests as sexual and domestic slaves, or "wives of the gods", in compensation for offenses allegedly committed by a member of the girl's family. READ MORE