Essays about: "women struggle"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 137 essays containing the words women struggle.

1. 16. “We must be their voices!” : exploring Danish-Iranian women’s emotional engagement with the Woman Life Freedom movement on Instagram and beyond

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

   Author : Therese Thim; [2023]
   Keywords : civic engagement; diaspora; social media; emotions; affect; politics; sense of belonging; Woman Life Freedom movement; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The present study explores how Danish-Iranian Women living in Copenhagen witness and take part in the connective Woman Life Freedom movement, online and from afar. It seeks to investigate their emotional engagement with Instagram, their political participation and their sense of belonging in this process. READ MORE

3. 17. Local Entertainers in Cebu, Philippines: Entertainment and Sex Work: The Struggle for Empowerment

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Judith Loyzaga Skoglund; [2022-11-09]
   Keywords : Philippines; entertainer; empowerment; pragmatism; stigmatization; sex worker; prostitution;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine why local women in Cebu, Philippines, chose to work as entertainers and sex workers. It will examine how their occupation affect their daily lives, in regard to their economy and their social relations with their families, colleagues and customers. READ MORE

4. 18. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle

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

   Author : Lucrezia Giordano; [2022]
   Keywords : ation; reproduction; female body; collective processes; reproductive health; agency; decolonial feminism; resistance;

   Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE

5. 19. The power of Kurdish women - A discourse analysis of the Kurdish Women's Movement in Rojava

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Lavin Bahzad Ali; [2022]
   Keywords : Kurdish Women’s Movement; Women’s agency; Rojava; Kurdish women; Ro- java revolution; Discourse analysis; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The long-lasting tradition of women that tackles roles within the military in the Kurdish free- dom movement is now, in recent years, beheld for better or for worse. This thesis will im- merse into the Kurdish women's agency in the Kurdish Women's Movement and their work of change for a more democratized Rojava by examing the source material "Stateless democracy with the Kurdish movement" by Reneé In der Maur and Jonas Staal. READ MORE

6. 20. Is Hair Just Hair? : The Role of Hair in Identity Processes and Contestations of Black Women in Sweden

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

   Author : Daniel Therre; [2022]
   Keywords : social identity theory; Natural Hair Movement; labeling; Sweden; Black women;

   Abstract : This bachelor thesis provides an analysis of hair and its role for the racial and ethnic identity of Black women living in Sweden. This is achieved by analyzing interviews with five women who reside in different urban areas throughout Sweden. READ MORE