Essays about: "poststructural feminism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words poststructural feminism.

  1. 1. Transgender and gender-diverse youth caught in the intersection of policy making, politics, gender-affirming care, and feminist discourse

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

    Author : Julia Hagstedt; [2022]
    Keywords : Transgender youth; policy making; feminism; UK; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how presuppositions and assumptions can affect policy making, by investigating if anti-trans and 'gender critical' rhetoric may have affected the now reversed NHS policy ‘Amendments to service specification for gender identity development service for children and adolescents’ which directly influenced the still in use Karolinska University Hospital policy, ‘Policyförändring gällande hormonell behandling till minderåriga patienter med könsdysfori inom Tema Barn’. By using the Foucauldian inspired poststructural WPR policy analysis method by Bacchi and Goodwin, it was uncovered that the underlying assumptions and presuppositions of the hegemonic ‘truths’ the representation of the problem relied on, assumed dominance through an increase of anti-transgender and anti-gender-diverse rhetoric in political and public debates, and in media. READ MORE

  2. 2. High Demands and Even Higher Ambitions : An Analysis of Swedish Development Policy

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

    Author : Måns Frenning; [2021]
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    Abstract : This study is a poststructural policy analysis of the Swedish governmental writing called Politics for Global Development in the Implementation of Agenda 2030. The writing is the most recent Swedish development policy and is built upon agenda 2030. The method that is used in this thesis is described by Carol Bacchi and called WPR. READ MORE

  3. 3. Why is human trafficking excluded from the EU’s cybersecurity? : An explorative study about cybersecurity and human trafficking in the European Union

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Linda Nieminen; [2021]
    Keywords : human trafficking; cybersecurity; the European Union; security; feminist theory; hegemonic masculinity;

    Abstract : Combatting human trafficking is one of the top priorities in the European Union and Europol. Nonetheless, Europe is one of worlds’ leading regions for most trafficked human beings. Human trafficking is often connected to organised crime such as drug trafficking, cybercrime and child pornography and occurs across borders. READ MORE

  4. 4. EU Gender Equality for Export? A discourse analysis and postcolonial feminist critique of the construction of ‘gender equality’ in the EU Gender Action Plan II

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hanna Lindqvist; [2019]
    Keywords : gender equality; European Union EU ; Gender Action Plan II; discourse analysis; Bacchi; WPR; postcolonial feminism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study employs an approach to policy as discourse and examines the construction of gender equality in the EU Gender Action Plan II. Drawing from the poststructural premise that discourses affect how issues are being thought about and acted upon, the study seeks to scrutinize how gender equality is attributed with meaning by applying Carol Bacchi’s analytical methodology What’s the problem represented to be?. READ MORE

  5. 5. Practice what you preach- A Critical Discourse Analysis on Gender Implementation Issues of the UN

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sofia Rubertsson; [2014]
    Keywords : United Nations; Force Intervention Brigade; Feminist Security Studies; Gender Stereotypes; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This Bachelor thesis critically studies how women’s identities are constructed in resolutions put together by the United Nations. The thesis focuses on three Resolutions on Democratic Republic of the Congo, (RES/2053(2012))(RES/2098(2013) and (RES/2147(2014) in order to highlight how women are being portrayed in new mandates given to intervention forces. READ MORE