Browsing by Subject "Gender and Ethnicity"
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Agents of Revolution: Young women and men in Cairo: gender religion and change
(2012)This research discusses the participation and experiences of the young generation of Egypt in the 25 of January Revolution. It focusses on their daily life and the changes therein, particularly the gendered and religious ... -
As Through a Glass, Darkly: Abjection and Masculinity in Narrative
(2010)This thesis works with theories of abjection put forward by Julia Kristeva in "Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection," and uses this theory to explore the construction and maintenance of the normative white male in two ... -
Belgrade, 1978. Remembering the conference «Drugarica Zena. Zensko Pitanje – Novi Pristup?»/ «Comrade Woman.The Women’s Question: A New Approach?» thirty years after
(2008)Between the 27th and the 29th of October 1978 the international conference “Drugarica Zena. Zensko Pitanje: Novi Pristup?” - “Comrade Woman. Women’s question: a new approach?” - took place in Belgrade, at the Students ... -
Cooking Up Gender: A Critical Perspective on Gender and Food in Reader's Digest Advertising
(2014)This research is located at a crossroad of media studies, gender studies and food studies and is set up to explore a supposedly ‘natural’ relation between gender and food. Through a media content analysis of Reader's Digest ... -
Daughters of migration: An autoethnographic journey through a matrilineal history of migration between Brazil and Italy
(2017)This project starts out as an inquiry of my experience as a migrant in Italy, where I partially grew up. But this only occurred because the women in my family decided to move away from Brazil. Thus, I needed to include ... -
(DES)HACIENDO FRONTERAS Experiences of Latin American LGBTI* asylum seekers in Spain during the process of credibility assessment
(2017)Inscribed in queer migration scholarship, this research aims to explore the experiences of Latin Americans seeking asylum in Spain on the grounds of gender identity and/or sexual orientation. The analysis focuses on ... -
From Fashion Models to Fashion Workers: Towards a Double-Edged Feminist, New-Materialist Vision on Fashion.
(2013)This thesis presents a feminist new materialist analysis of fashion. Fashion has historically developed into a major player in late-capitalist, postmodern society. In academia, cultural theories of fashion have produced ... -
Gender Equality and Radical Right Wing Populist Parties A comparative study between the Netherlands and Sweden
(2015)Sweden has been known for its gender equality policies, and has been presented as an example within Europe (Borchorst and Siim, 2008; Hübinette and Lundström, 2011). They take part in the discourse on ‘women-friendliness’, ... -
'I can now thank God when I come': Religion and Sexuality in the Lives of Non-Heterosexual Protestant Women in the Netherlands
(2014)This research explores the intersections of religion, gender and sexuality in daily life experiences of non-heterosexual Protestant women in the Netherlands, the PKN. This thesis is based on a six month research project ... -
Lost in Motion: Towards a Materialist Account of Anorexia
(2016)This thesis explores the condition of anorexia from a materialist, Spinozist angle. In response to the linguistic-poststructuralist paradigm on anorexia within feminist scholarship, this thesis suggests an understanding ... -
Maternal Loss
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Matter Weighs: Weight Matters! A Feminist Phenomenology of Body Weight
(2012)If the body is indeed our way of being in the world, as the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty first claimed, then how is it different to be a fat body compared to a thin body? In which ways does weight affect embodied ...