Sökning: "Double consciousness"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 26 uppsatser innehållade orden Double consciousness.

  1. 16. Framing Domestic Violence Armenian Women’s rights organisations participating in the process of constructing domestic violence against women as a social problem

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Författare :Hanna Mächs; [2015-04-27]
    Nyckelord :Domestic violence; Violence against women; Armenia; Social constructionism; Social problems;

    Sammanfattning : The notion of domestic violence as a public issue, calling for official response, is relatively new in Armenian society. Since the late 1990s, a movement of making domestic violence visible as a societal matter has arisen and expanded, with support from an international women’s rights movement. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Unhomely Lives : Double Consciousness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Nasser Abulwassie; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Postcolonialism; colonial discourse; double consciousness; unhomed; hybridity;

    Sammanfattning : This essay argues that Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother depicts how the indigenous colonized in Dominica are living ‘unhomely lives’ and that their experience is one of the double consciousness. i.e. when a person see the world through different "lenses. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Cultural Trauma and Cultural Identity : A Study of Pilate in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

    Kandidat-uppsats, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Författare :Ulrika Persson; [2014]
    Nyckelord :African-American; cultural trauma; cultural identity; identity formation; double consciousness; unhomeliness; the Other ;

    Sammanfattning : This essay is a study of the character Pilate in Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon. It employs a postcolonial theoretical perspective in order to explore the cultural trauma that Pilate experiences in the aftermath of slavery. Furthermore, it analyses the impact of that trauma on the formation of Pilate’s own cultural identity. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Shattered Dreams : An essay analyzing Chanu's assimilation process in Brick Lane

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Författare :Caroline Harmon; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Post colonial theory; double consciousness; unhomeliness; cultural hybridity; mimicry;

    Sammanfattning : Brick Lane has stimulated a wide range of debates regarding Monica Ali's portrayal of the inhabitants of the area from which the novel has taken its title. This essay claims that assimilation is the key theme of the novel, and that the desire to achieve it is represented most strongly in the character of Chanu. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Kroppsideal hos unga kvinnor i åldern 15-25 år : En kvalitativ studie av unga kvinnors syn på kroppsideal

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Författare :Cansu Ünlü-Akyol; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Keywords: Body ideals; eating disorders; young women; media; ethnical differences.; Kroppsideal; massmedia; sociala medier; unga kvinnor;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay, I have interviewed six young women about their views on body image and how their views are affected by their surroundings, massmedia and social media. Also the relationship between body image and eating disorders is relevant in this context and has a part in the study. LÄS MER