Browsing by Subject "Gender Studies"
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A closet full of shame
(2017)In this thesis, I argue that the gay closet is a shaping feature in the lives of many homosexual people and, most importantly, I argue that it is a place full of shame. This place only draws meaning in a heteronormative ... -
A DIFFERENT OUTLOOK ON ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP Building new active citizenship policy on the heritage of supportive practices amongst Afro- Caribbean women in Amsterdam Southeast.
(2016)Building new active citizenship policy on the heritage of supportive practices amongst Afro- Caribbean women in Amsterdam Southeast. -
A Feminist Recipe for a Greener Planet: Exploring the Environmental Vegetarian Debate from a Feminist Perspective
(2016)The animal agriculture industry causes detrimental environmental impact on a large scale (FAO, 2006). In order to curtail the damage caused by meat production, documentaries, books and campaigns have emerged from the ... -
A Feminist Reconsideration of the Story of Aileen Wuornos: Hidden in the Shadows of the Media
(2020)Aileen Carol Wuornos, a woman who confessed to killing seven white middle-aged men in 1989 and 1990, was executed in the state of Florida on the 9th of October 2002. This thesis is going to provide an in-depth case study ... -
A Feminist Study In Makeup
(2019)For a long time, the nature and use of makeup has been troubling feminists all over the globe. While for some it is considered to be a tool of oppression used to control and suppress people (mostly women or female presenting ... -
A Rethinking of Difference: Doing Inclusivity, Intersectionality & Reflexivity in Discourse and Practice in the International Development NGO Sector.
(2017)The focus of this research comparatively analyses strategies of inclusivity within a cross-cultural context of three Western development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) geographically located in the ‘global North’, ... -
A Two Front Battle - A feminist perspective on the Dutch discourse on the two folded battle of the Kurdish Women’s Movement
(2015)In this thesis it is researched how the Dutch media discourse about battling Kurdish female combatants has changed, since they are fighting the Islamic State (IS). Ever since the female Kurdish warriors are involved in the ... -
AGAINST NIHILISM: REPRESENTATIONS OF TRANS*NESS IN DUTCH MEDIA
(2019)After the national controversy regarding gender inclusivity in the Netherlands in 2017, there seem to have emerged a whole new group of individuals that actively reject the gender binary, opting instead for other modes of ... -
Agential Realism and Gender Expansiveness: Exploring Digital Mediation and the Shaping of Gender
(2022)The world is silently shaped and mediated by digital technologies, algorithms, and databased categorisations in what legal scholar Frank Pasquale terms a ‘black box society’, while the constraints of binary gender ... -
Always Ready: Bodily impact of militarization on Syrian women activists.
(2021)Feminist research has revealed a significant relationship between militarization and patriarchy. This thesis takes that research forward through a gender analysis of the bodily impact of militarization on Syrian women ... -
An analysis of Puta Dei 6: a sex worker-led platform for social and political transformation
(2020)The present work investigates the strategic role of cultural events to the Brazilian sex worker’s movement in its work to challenge stigma and discrimination. The thesis is initially set to understand the motivations why ... -
AND WHEN THE BODY ECHOES : NEGOTIATING MEMORY THROUGH THE PERFORMANCE OF NEGATIVE AFFECT IN GALINDO’S ‘LAS ESCUCHARON GRITAR Y NO ABRIERON LA PUERTA’
(2022)This thesis examines the potential of bodily performances of memory in the creation of critical countermemories. Taking a closer listen at Regina José Galindo’s sound performance ‘Las Escucharon Gritar y No Abrieron la ... -
Applying intersectionality as a method
(2018)This thesis aims to answer the question of what it means to conduct feminist and intersectional qualitative research and how to do so. My experiences during my internship at FNV Vrouw and the difficulties I encountered ... -
BECOMING RATHER THAN BEING. Identity Negotiations for Latin American Women in the Dutch Context
(2017)This thesis delves into how Latin American women negotiate their identity in the Dutch culture. The importance of this question resides in the fact that the Latin American community is quite invisible in the Netherlands. ... -
Between the Gloss and Reality - How gender representations have meaning in a play world: a case study on Grand Theft Auto V and Mirror’s Edge
(2019)This thesis explores how representations of masculinity and femininity are valued in a case study on two video games: Grand Theft Auto V and Mirror’s Edge. I will give an account on gender representations in the media, and ... -
Can Dutch Women Be Politicians? A Discourse Analysis of Parliamentary Debates on Women’s Suffrage (1887 – 1916)
(2020)Although women are since 1916 allowed to become politicians in the Netherlands, an assumed discrepancy between their maternality and the political body is still present in contemporary Dutch society. To understand this ...