Browsing by Subject "GEMMA: Master degree in Women's and Gender studies"
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7792662 - Gómez Recinos - Thesis: Ladina Mestiza as a Political Identity in Guatemala
(2022)This research aims to explore the possibility of collectively building a new ladina-mestiza political identity within the Guatemalan context and women’s movement, mainly based in two decolonial feminist perspectives. First, ... -
A critical approach to the concept of reciprocity in heterosexual sex: from subjective meanings to personal experiences
(2019)This thesis analyses the meanings and experiences of reciprocity in heterosexual sexual encounters. Reciprocity, synonymous with mutuality and ‘giving and taking’, is a moral norm that traditionally refers to a concept of ... -
A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF FEMICIDE/FEMINICIDE
(2015)The concept of “femicide” was first formulated in 1992 by Jill Radford and Diana Russell; nonetheless, it has not been widely discussed in feminist philosophical arenas, and this situation has led to a narrow understanding ... -
'Acting like 13 year old boys?': Exploring the discourse of online harassment and the diversity of harassers
(2016)This thesis investigates the users behind online harassment of women, and broad patterns of behaviour online. The impetus behind this was to investigate taken-for-granted assumptions about who harassers are, what they do ... -
Anti-terrorism as a Governing Device and Social Control Mechanism: Political Dissidence and Sexual Politics in a Permanent State of Exception in the Italian Context
(2016)This thesis focuses on the political use of violence and specifically on notions, narratives and discourses that construct and defining “terrorism” in contemporary neoliberal capitalist societies. The author looks at the ... -
Between (in)visibilities: Experiences of race and migration among Brazilians in the Netherlands
(2020)This research investigates how Brazilians experience race in the Netherlands. Race is socially constructed and historically and contextually dependent, so this thesis looks at the ways in which race is lived by Brazilians ... -
Beyond punitive opposition: cancel culture in relation to queer storytelling
(2022)Abstract Cancelling has become an increasingly resonant word in the past years, and it has adopted particular modes in the field of pop culture and media. This research aims to explore the ways in which cancel culture ... -
Bio-cartography: Towards a New Theory of Portraying
(2012)The project of bio-cartography interconnected the metamorphoses of subjectivity with the progress of representational thought, having drawn on the different fields of reflections concerned with the changing self: ... -
Bomb the Archive! A Critical Feminist Approach to Alternative Historicizing
(2013)With the recent slew of efforts to reform museums and construct alternative H/histories and archives of/for traditionally unacknowledged groups, anti-oppression activists and workers have often forgotten to trouble the ... -
Born Girl in Macondo: Stolen Childhood
(2016)This research is focused on the case of the study of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) to girls between 8-12 years old in the context of a Centro American island. Through this, I pretend to assume the women and girls´ s voices, who ... -
Contemporary Urban Parteiras Tradicionais in Brazil and Discourses on ‘Knowledge’ and ‘Modernity’
(2017)In Brazil, parteiras tradicionais are usually portrayed as women who live in rural areas, very much attached to religion, and part of a group on the verge of disappearing, especially because they are only ‘allowed’ to ... -
Countering homonationalism: a case study with ACT UP, Paris
(2012)This thesis is an exploration of the recent phenomenon called homonationalism, through the angle of activism. By doing fieldwork with the association ACT UP, Paris, I intended to understand how activists have perceived ... -
De los No Espacios a los Espacios de Resistencia: Aproximación Etnográfica a las Arquitecturas de poder en la ciudad de Granada (From Non-Spaces to Spaces of Resistance: Ethnographic aproximation to Power Architectures in the city of Granada)
(2013)Este trabajo pretende lanzar una mirada crítica a los dispositivos de poder que están incrustados en los procesos de producción del espacio. A partir de un proceso autoetnográfico en diálogo con otros “cuerpos fuera de ... -
Decolonial-Feminist Account of Yagé
(2018)This research aims to explore, expose and problematize the Western scholarly discourse produced about yagé, an indigenous medicine used in the Amazon region of Colombia. Drawing upon what has been said in scholarly literature ... -
Deconstructing "Non-spaces". Inquiries into Contemporary Public Art in Budapest from a Feminist Point of View.
(2013)This paper examines different public art interventions developed in Budapest, Hungary. My approach embraces a transdisciplinarity between aesthetics, activism, identity and history. Focusing on the social and spatial ... -
Displaced Affects: Emotional Embodied Experiences of Displaced Women in Colombia
(2016)This research aims to contribute to Colombia’s historical memory regarding the knowledges, experiences, and embodied subjectivities of displaced women, as active members of a society determined by more than fifty years of ... -
Diversity Matters - Canadian Pedagogy and the Problem with Being Different
(2010)Over the last three decades policy makers in Ontario, Canada have sought to integrate the feminist and antiracist discourses into public education policies through a gradual process of mainstreaming. These reformulated ... -
DRAGGING ANTIGONE: FEMINISTQUEER READING TO MOVE BEYOND THE (GENDER) BINARY. Queering education and transgression in reading Anne Carson’s Antigonick
(2016)Institutional readings of classical myths have been essential to the repetition of the gender binary within the heteronormative frame. Moving from my ‘local knowledge’, I reflect on critical and engaged education and the ... -
Estudiar para que el cuerpo no duela. Las emociones en la construcción de subjetividades de clase y género Studying to release the body from pain. Addressing emotions in the construction of class and gender subjectivities
(2019)From my “situated” and “embodied” knowledge (Haraway, 1988), I commence from the memory of my own experience as a working woman from the rural context. Together with the stories of other colleagues, I shape an emotional, ...