Essays about: "women s magazines"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the words women s magazines.
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1. Private Women with Public Opinions : Negotiating Gender in Early Modern Fashion Magazines
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis researches the construction of gender ideals for the new Middle Class and women’s involvement in the same by analysing fashion magazines published in Germany and Sweden between 1786 to 1827 and 1818 to 1844, respectively. The analysis consists of two parts: first, the share of women’s involvement in the public sphere as defined by Habermas as well as the justification of the inclusion of female-written texts and second, the nature of gender ideals in relation to the separate spheres’ framework. READ MORE
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2. The Power of the Power Suit : How do the representations of women’s work in American Vogue reflect the changes in the female labour force participation rate from 1900 to 2020?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The increase in female labour force participation rate can be considered as the most significant labour market trend taken place over the last 120 years in the United States. However, despite the drastic increase, women’s labour participation has stagnated since the mid-1990s. READ MORE
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3. Female representations on Greek media and Greek women’s (un)employment before and after the Covid-19 pandemic : Examining whether and how media gender stereotypes can affect Greek women’s development in light of a crisis.
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : Women around the world face various kinds of discrimination, which vary from country to country and from culture to culture. Socio-economic crises and global emergencies can accentuate such gender inequalities being particularly detrimental to women. READ MORE
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4. A Jihad on Love : A study on the phenomenon of love jihad in relation to Hindu nationalist constructs of identities in India
University essay fromAbstract : The aim of this paper is to investigate the Indian Hindu nationalist concept of “love jihad”, an idea based upon the alleged fact that Muslim men actively seeks out non-Muslim women for conversion to Islam by various methods including, false promises of love and abductions. While the accusation that Muslims are conducting love jihad currently is being propagated by several active Hindu nationalist groups, the focus of this paper lies on the Viśva Hindū Pariṣad (VHP) and the Rāṣṭrīya Svayaṃsevak Saṃgh (RSS), two major branches within the so-called family of Hindu nationalist organisations, or the Saṃgh Parivār. READ MORE
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5. When girls read : A study about women and lifestyle media in the Nordic region
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärdAbstract : This study sought for the importance and influence of visual text in Lifestyle magazines. The aim was to see the importance of visual text for middle-aged women as well as for the magazines. It also aimed to understand how the reading of these magazines can affect women´s daily life. READ MORE
