Essays about: "targeting women."

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1. 21. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights : - A catalysis to combat Gender-based violence in South Africa?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Ndayambaje Sandrine; [2020]
   Keywords : Gender-based violence; Sexual and reproductive health and rights; state institutions; civil society organisations; marginalised women; HIV; wellbeing; CEDAW; South Africa;

   Abstract : The multiple components of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), promotes women’s wellbeing and rights to a life free from discrimination and violence. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a matter closely related to SRHR and affects women globally on daily basis. READ MORE

3. 22. Beauty Standards: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Makeup Advertisements by Maybelline and CoverGirl

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

   Author : Cathrine Flymén; [2020]
   Keywords : critical discourse analysis; advertisements; gender; femininity; beauty standards;

   Abstract : It could be argued that makeup are products that are almost exclusively targeting women, and the advertising of makeup could create an image of how women should look. This study investigates how two cosmetic brands, Maybelline and CoverGirl, are advertising makeup in social media and what this conveys about gender and beauty. READ MORE

4. 23. The systematic use of sexual violence in genocide : Understanding why women are being targeted using the cases of Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Viktoria Nicolaisen; [2019]
   Keywords : genocide; sexual violence; feminism; intersectionality; tactical rape; Rwanda; former Yugoslavia;

   Abstract : When describing sexual violence as a ’weapon of war’ or as systematic in the setting of a conflict, many times there is no distinction between how it is used during different types of conflicts. Moreover, they are often discussed as either a crime against the ”enemy” or a crime against women. READ MORE

5. 24. Eugenics and bodily discipline in the Scandinavian welfare state: a genealogy of gendered othering

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

   Author : Yagmur Yilmaz; [2019]
   Keywords : Scandinavian history; eugenics; gendered othering; eugenic sterilization; welfare state; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is a genealogy of the gendered othering practices that emerged through and within the implementation of eugenic policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, namely Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Between the early 1930s and 1970s, tens of thousands of people were sterilized and institutionalized in Scandinavia for various purposes, and a vast majority of these people were “feebleminded,” “immoral,” “vagrant,” “antisocial” or “weak” women whose fertility constituted a threat to the quality of the “national stock. READ MORE

6. 25. Targeting change for women’s rights. An analysis of how the women’s rights movement in Kosovo has developed its strategies for gender equality in response to political realities

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Emmanuelle Texier; [2019]
   Keywords : Women’s rights movement; gender equality; strategies; Kosovo; political opportunity structure; feminist institutionalism.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the newly founded state Kosovo, the women’s rights movement has become a strong voice on gender equality and contributes in important ways to strengthening women’s rights. At the same time, highly gendered political structures restrict the movement’s access to political influence. READ MORE