Essays about: "women’s experiences"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 101 essays containing the words women’s experiences.

  1. 21. Women's fear of violence in public spaces

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Frehiwot Gebremedhin; [2022]
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    Abstract : Women have historically feared public violence. Although many studies have been undertaken to find solutions, non-western women's experiences have been overlooked. This thesis studies how women's fear of public violence inhibits their movement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. READ MORE

  3. 22. Lived Hybridity : The Embodied Experiences of Daughters of Immigrants in Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Lina Kröger; [2022]
    Keywords : Othering; Second Generation; Lived Hybridity; Non-Whiteness; Socio-Spatial Segregation;

    Abstract : Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between space, non-whiteness, embodied experiences and related perceptions, establishing reality connections for the participants in this matter. One notion that collides with the unrestricted individuality of these subjects, who are perceived as being outsiders to the Swedish norm, is the concept of Othering. READ MORE

  4. 23. A Knight(mare) in Shining Armour: A Foucauldian-Feminist Analysis of Sexsomnia Defence in Swedish Courts

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Elin Persmo; [2022]
    Keywords : Sexsomnia; Sexual behaviour during sleep; Foucault; Swedish court system; Sexual violence; Medico-legal field; and Feminist socio-legal theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, several men in Sweden have been acquitted of different sexual offences because the courts deemed that it could have occurred in their sleep. According to a leading expert, several of the Swedish acquitting cases are based on incorrect or irrelevant arguments and reasoning regarding sexsomnia. READ MORE

  5. 24. Combating feminicidal violence in Mexico: A qualitative study of women’s active subjectivity vis a vis institutional violence.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Rosa Gonzalez Mondragon; [2022]
    Keywords : feminicidal violence; institutional violence; women; active subjectivity.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study focuses on both the institutional violence against women and women’s (facing direct forms of extreme violence) resistance by highlighting their voices and experiences, from a decolonial feminist approach. It examines the tension between oppression and active subjectivity, concluding that women experiencing extreme forms of feminicidal violence, through the resignifications of themselves are active subjects whose actions work towards the denormalization of violence socially and in front of governmental institutions. READ MORE

  6. 25. Uncovering the Hidden Disease - Endometriosis Experiences Through the Documentary Lens

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Jana Raschdorf; [2022]
    Keywords : Endometriosis; troubling design; documentary film; co-design; health care;

    Abstract : This paper explores the use of documentary-style video to support and explore Troubling Design in the field of the gender biased health care system. Women have been neglected within the health care system for centuries and their physical concerns are often not taken seriously by a respective doctor. READ MORE