Essays about: "women as commodities"

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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. Human Trafficking : “The Silent Victims”

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

   Author : Ema Miseikaite; [2023]
   Keywords : Human trafficking; Male trafficking victims; Masculinity; Gender roles; Globalization;

   Abstract : Human Trafficking, also known as Trafficking in Persons, or Modern-Day Slavery, is a multibillion-dollar industry that consumes millions of individuals from diverse social, cultural, racial, national, or gender backgrounds. Human trafficking can take many forms: labor, organ, and sex trafficking. READ MORE

4. 3. Be Proud of Your Menstruation! A case study of commodity feminist discourse in mainland China.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

   Author : Yiyun Zhu; [2022]
   Keywords : Menstruation; Femvertising; Regional adaption; Orientalism; Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Adopting a critical discourse analysis approach, this study presents a case study around the “Menstruation should not be hidden” campaign launched by the Swedish brand, Libresse, in the Chinese market. With the aim to explore how does the brand strategically use female empowering discourse to construct new meanings of menstruation for a regional market, and the socio-cultural factors involved. READ MORE

5. 4. “Everything that needs to make the thing a whole” : aestheticization, exclusion and the political economy of Long Bay’s tourism landscape

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Anwen Martha Davis; [2020]
   Keywords : Jamaica; Tourism; Marxist political economy; Landscape; Exclusion; Aesthetics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Although a large volume of work has been conducted regarding tourism industries across the world, the dominant analysis in the geographies of tourism tends to draw upon post-modern discourse analysis and representational theories. This has resulted in calls to develop more materialist analyses of tourism landscapes. READ MORE

6. 5. Consumer attitudes towards environmental marketing : A study regarding consumer attitudes towards environmental marketing within the milk- industry

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

   Author : Mervenur Özalp; Malin Puschmann Maajaakkola; [2020]
   Keywords : Environmental marketing; consumer scepticism; premium price; green consumer; consumer attitudes; subjective norms; consumer behaviour; loyalty; perceived consumer efficiency; knowledge.;

   Abstract : Due to modern consumption-levels being too high, researchers claim that there is a need for sustainable marketing as well as a change in consumer attitudes towards sustainability. The purpose of this study is to examine how environmental marketing on everyday commodities such as milk affects consumer attitudes, as well as to find out which are the most influential determinants affecting these attitudes. READ MORE