Sökning: "White Gaze"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 uppsatser innehållade orden White Gaze.
1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. LÄS MER
2. Resisting from within : Analysis of intersectional narratives in the "burkini" case in France
Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusSammanfattning : Since summer 2016 France has experienced several episodes of “moral panic” about a three-pieces swimsuit worn by Muslim women, the “burkini”, whether on the occasion of attempts to ban it from beaches, or on the opposite to allow it in the swimming pools. These Islamophobic expressions are part of a French history of shaping the figure of “Muslim women”, controlling their bodies through their clothing, from “veil” to “burkini”, and silencing them. LÄS MER
3. Skildringar av kvinnliga migrantarbetare i kinesisk film : Id-kortet, oskuldsfullheten och temaparken i The world och Angels wear white
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiSammanfattning : This thesis examines how themes about migrant workers, especially women migrant workers are depicted in the two films The world, Shijie 世界 (2004), directed by Jia Zhangke 贾樟柯 and Angels wear white, Jianianhua 嘉年华 (2017), directed by Vivian Qu, also called Wen Yan 文言. In the background of the thesis the subjects hukou 户口, the system of household registration; the floating population, liudong renkou 流动人口, the people who are not living at the place where they are registered at, according to the hukou system and black hukou, heihu 黑户, the people who lack hukou altogether are discussed. LÄS MER
4. Building Bridges Through Visual Manifestations of Statelessness : Decolonial feminism and coalitional engagement against denial of genocide in the Dominican Republic
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle; Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och SamhälleSammanfattning : The work presented aims to show the complexity, causes, and challenges of being stateless in the Dominican Republic through the medium of documentaries. This thesis will also uncoverpossibilities of resistance and coalitional engagement. LÄS MER
5. Representations of Women and Gender relations in Jamaican Tourism Promotional Marketing: An analysis of visual images on Jamaica’s national DMO website.
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SociologiSammanfattning : Tourism images and representations depict women in a stereotypical way where men and women are represented differently. Like much advertising, women in tourism promotional marketing are sexualized and exoticized. Destinations are promoted through the use of the female body. LÄS MER
