This study explores the (hetero)sexualized online space that is the category “Pools, Hot Tubsand Beaches” on the streaming platform Twitch.tv. The aim of the study is to gain a further understanding of how gender and sexuality is performed under the specific conditions offered by the space. Interactions between livestreamer and chat in three livest...
Blache DuBois je glavni lik v drami Tennesseeja Williamsa Tramvaj Poželenje. Blanche zelo veliko pozornosti posveča svojemu telesu in videzu. Njeno telo je idealen primer ženskega krotkega telesa, o katerem piše Sandra Lee Bartky v navezavi na Foucaultovo prelomno delo Nadzorovanje in kaznovanje, kjer avtor piše o novem tipu oblasti, disciplinski o...
This study investigates the representations of librarians in movies spanning from the years 2012 to 2022 from a gender perspective using thematic analysis. Being a female-dominated profession with an increasing use of technology, the goal is to see how librarians are being portrayed today and how that might affect the perceptions of librarianship. ...
This thesis offers a feminist perspective on the character development on Daenerys Targaryen in the TV-series Game of Thrones and Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon. It mobilizes Laura Mulvey’s notion of the male gaze, which addresses the objectification of female character in classical Hollywood film, as well as Clarie Johnston’s critical t...
The aim for this essay is, along with the four included case studies, is to examine the social media platform, Instagram's strict guidelines when it comes to showing nudity. On the platform there is a certain double standard, artists as well as art institutions are censored, that is, they get pictures removed or their accounts blocked when they tr...
Porträtteringen av kvinnor inom manliga hiphopartisters musikvideor har varit i debatt och forskningens fokus länge. Denna studie ämnar att genom en kvalitativ forskningsstudie bidra med ett nytt perspektiv där vi analyserar kvinnliga hiphopartisters musikvideor utifrån ett genus och historiskt jämförande perspektiv med hjälp av en visuell textanal...
This essay has studied how successful women are portrayed in the reality show Swedish power women. The purpose was to examine if stereotypes and gender norms are reproduced or challenged. Theoretical perspectives such as gender, gender norms, stereotypes and the male gaze were used to investigate the portrayal of successful women. To analyze the em...
Denna uppsats handlar om den samtida konstnären Oh de Laval och utforskar med en semiotiskt förankrad analysmetod appropriering i två olika konstverk och samhörigheten mellan dem. Verken som analyseras i studien är Oh de Lavals, Luncheon on the grass, 2019 och Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863 och stöds av Pablo Picasso, Le Déjeuner sur ...
Gender and stereotypes in advertising is a critical discourse analysis aimed at studying how femininity and masculinity is portrayed in Gillette and Gillette Venus marketing on YouTube. Both brands have, after the #metoo campaign, opted to approach their marketing from different point of view since their previous advertising has been heavily critic...
The media is not only a source of entertainment, it is also a way to better understand ourselves and a means to shape our identities. The purpose of different types of communication are never neutral, there is always a discourse and an underlying meaning at work. By continually portraying women as stereotypical characters, the patriarchal discourse...
