Browsing Theses by Subject "Comparative Women's Studies in Culture and Politics"
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A Feminist and Postcolonial analysis of how and why peacekeeping missions are involved in the very horrors they seek to address
(2013)The purpose of this research is to unfold how and why UN peacekeeping missions are involved in the horrors they seek to address. This research is based on an in-depth literature review of already existing publications as ... -
A “transsexual daily life”: Possibility for Transsexual Empowerment
(2011)It is a close image reading of the most recent award-winning photographs Willeke Duijvekam. He did a portrait series to a transsexual teenage girl in Netherlands. Not surprisingly, it is still a conventional medical discourse ... -
Becoming Undetermined
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Bisexual women and their relationship(s): A case study on the negotiation of sexual orientation and relational wishes in the public and private sphere.
(2012)Bisexual women and their partners are interviewed about how they speak about the bisexual orientation of one partner in the public and private sphere, and about polyamory in the private sphere. Their responses are connected ... -
Calling All Women: Exploring the Frames of Women in Relation to Economic Self-Sufficiency in Dutch Emancipation Policy
(2014)In the Dutch Emancipation Policy presented in 2013 by Minister Bussemaker, a new attitude towards women's responsibilities with regards to their economic self-sufficiency was presented. The Minister urged Dutch women to ... -
Clearing the Glass Ceiling: Implementing the Male View for Transparency in the Dutch Glass Ceiling Debate
(2011)This thesis concentrates on the current popular scientific glass ceiling debate in the Netherlands. And starts out with a discourse analysis of the current debate by researching three Dutch popular scientific books, namely ... -
Dismantling Evolutionary Psychology and the presumed 'natural' differences between men and women
(2012)When equality between the sexes is discussed, stereotypical ideas and double standards are often not talked about. A lot of qualities are seen to be natural to men and women and thus do not need to be addressed. In this ... -
Disruption of Desire by Religion
(2012)In the process of understanding the social dynamics of intersecting identities within the field of social work in order to optimize the socio-psychological assistance to queer Muslim adolescents in the Netherlands, this ... -
Diversity Management and Otherness-Politics: Organising (with) Difference
(2008)How a theoretical thinking about diversity can make a difference in adressing policies and actions. -
Doing Drag: From Subordinate Queers to Fabulous Queens Drag as an Empowerment Strategy for Gay Men
(2014)This thesis explores and illustrates how drag can be empowering for homosexual men. It does so by drawing on theories of masculinities and performativity and through interviews with four Dutch drag queens. -
Eating the other - The Animal Question in Contemporary Art
(2014)Two questions guide this thesis. (1) how does ‘eating the other’ become problematic within the framework of posthumanism, and (2) how does contemporary art engage with the animal problem? Starting from the conviction ... -
Evolutionary Story Telling
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Footbinding, Sexuality and Transnational Feminism
(2009)Footbinding was a Chinese custom where women bound their feet with cloth to make them smaller. As a special culture, it has spread its influence deeply into various fields in Chinese social life (both female and male) ... -
From Wrapped Differences towards Diversity Sensitive Social Work? An intersectional discourse analysis of the Protective Wraps-model
(2012)An intersectional discourse analysis of the Protective Wraps-model; a social work methodology focused on the inclusion of migrant families with their collective strenghts and possible vulnerabilities related to migration.