Essays about: "sisterhood"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the word sisterhood.

  1. 1. Ethnographic case study on Feminist commodity networks and sisterhood building in Melbourne, Australia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Stella Saaresaho; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist commodity networks; value; ethics of care; sustainability; attachment; sisterhood;

    Abstract : This thesis examines feminist commodity networks through an ethnographic case study of QVWC SHOP in Melbourne, Australia. The work is built through an emic perspective on the understanding of selling, producing, and buying through the QVWC SHOP. READ MORE

  3. 2. The sisterhood saving the world through shopping

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Filippa Kjellberg; Amanda Nordlander; [2022]
    Keywords : Fast fashion; Sustainability; Ethical consumption; Authenticity; Femvertising; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to understand how young females navigate as consumers of fashion with reference to ethical concerns and further, to understand and analyse how these consumers experience a responsibility for sustainability matters in the context of fashion.... READ MORE

  4. 3. Sisterhood : An examination of women’s relationships in Maggie O’Farrell’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

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

    Author : Gabriella Varini Viotto; [2022]
    Keywords : feminism; sisterhood; O’Farrell; gender roles; women solidarity; feminist literature; feminist theory;

    Abstract : This essay explores how the novel The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell depicts and criticises behaviours derived from deeply rooted patriarchal ideologies, traditional gender roles and sexist oppression. It aims to determine whether the novel encourages feminist values by examining the three main characters, Kitty, Esme and Iris, and how they relate to each other as well as to patriarchal structures and sexist oppression. READ MORE

  5. 4. ‘The Gaps Between Stories’ : Examining the Gray Area of Sexual Consent in The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Paulina Sundqvist; [2022]
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    Abstract : This project’s aim was to examine how the institutionalization of rape and sexual violence becomes problematic if analyzed through the conceptual lens of consent and complicity. After this close reading of consent and sexual violence, the answers are still not clear or easily discerned. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Appropriation of Feminist Values in Multi-Level-Marketing Distribution Networks

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    Author : Angelica Ferneborg; Marie Amminger; [2021]
    Keywords : Multi-Level Marketing; MLM-Networks; Femvertising; Feminist Media Theory; Relational Agency; Feminist Values; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the communicative and discursive practices used by Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) networks when marketing their network to women as both a business opportunity and as a sisterhood, in order to start and contribute to the conversation regarding the relatively unsupervised communicative practices and their potential effects of MLM distribution networks. By conducting an extensive qualitative analysis on eighteen group call videos posted publicly on YouTube by affiliates of six different MLM networks, this thesis examines the marketing practices used to appropriate feminist values in order to recruit women and sell products. READ MORE