Essays about: "sisterhood"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 essays containing the word sisterhood.

  1. 6. Birds of a feather flock together : a case study of Chinese Guangchangwu dama in a super-diverse city

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Miaoer Chen; [2021]
    Keywords : Chinese Square dance; Guangchangwu Dama; sense of belonging; friendship; Conviviality; conviviality microspaces; Diversity; super diverse; music participation; empowerment; social media; senior adults; older women; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to critically examine how older women interact, perform to their heart's content, learn music, and communicate across cultures around square dancing in a Chinese context. The paper explores how retired Chinese grandmothers use square dancing to build social interactions, find friendships and integrate into diverse group life. READ MORE

  3. 7. From a hashtag to a movement : From MeToo to being rightless in 2020's Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Klara Fröberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Rape script; MeToo; sexual violence; Rättslösa; radical feminism; Sweden; Feminism; political engagement; feminist organization; collective action; rightlessness; movement; patriarchy; collective identity; feminist separatism; discourse theory;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the continuance of the MeToo movement in the Swedish context via the digitalplatform Instagram, collective action and feminist organizations that are engaged to end sexual violence.It illuminates how the sisterhood impacted by the practice of challenging the rape script a conceptused to describe the discourse on how sexual violence should be like, and how victim-survivors should behave, how the engagement is made among the activists that engage to challenge the rape script and lastly, how since the MeToo movement started a discourse of rightlessness have been exposed through the sharing of experiences that the MeToo movement initiated. READ MORE

  4. 8. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Mårten Wahlström; [2021]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; Alice Walker; literature; feminism; feminist analysis; womanism; psychoanalysis;

    Abstract : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. READ MORE

  5. 9. Feminism and media, opportunities and limitations of digital practices

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

    Author : Jéromine O. Boizot; [2019]
    Keywords : Feminism; media; Digital Practice; Digital Sisterhoods; Feminist media; Intersectionality;

    Abstract : Researches done on social movements and media are often conducted at a micro-level, focusing on the individual activity (Klandermans 1997), or the macro level, excluding the meso level, linking the two first levels together. Furthermore, studies focusing on the relation between feminism as a social movement and media often neglect to identify the opportunities and the limitations of such an intersection. READ MORE

  6. 10. Problematic Men and Restricted Women: A Discourse Analysis on Swedish Feminism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anna Blixt; [2018]
    Keywords : social construction; social media; feminism; discourse theory; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Feminism is everywhere: in all sorts of media, in fashion, in entertainment, and in politics. By focusing on social media, this thesis examines how self-identified feminists construct feminism in Sweden. READ MORE