Browsing by Subject "Feminism"
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Alternative Miss Ireland : contesting gender hierarchies through performative acts
(Dublin Business School, 1998)"Throughout the final decades of .the 20th century, sexuality has taken something of a quantum leap, which contemporary cultures tries to ignore and deny" stated Fr. Diarmud 0 Murchu in The Irish Times of 10th March, 1998. ... -
Experiences of career and family from a working mothers perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2014)The research strived to gain a deeper and better understanding of women’s perception’s and experiences as mothers and professionals from their point of view. The research was qualitative in nature and the data was gathered ... -
The female role in the horror genre
(Dublin Business School, 2013)The female role in the horror genre is something that can be explored throughout the years. With the emergence of a new kind of female heroine since the 1970s and even 1980s, the role of the feminine within the horror genre ... -
Henrik Ibsen in the search for women's identity
(Dublin Business School, 2003)Henrik Ibsen's drama is famous for its concentration of the social lives of bourgeois people. These dramas are said to be naturalist as they take place in one setting, and in short space of time. Any events that happen ... -
Making the collar and cuffs match : women in pre-code cinema
(Dublin Business School, 2013)The main objective of my Final Year Project is to unveil the impact of women and sexuality in cinema during the Pre-code era of film, from 1930 to 1934. The freedom that women in American society were allowed in the 1920‘s ... -
The mass media influence on young men's sexual objectification of women
(Dublin Business School, 2015)The aim of this study was to investigate if there was a correlation between the mass Medias influence and men’s views on sexual objectification of women, as well as correlations between the Medias influence on men’s views ... -
'Nietzsche's Pregnant Bitch'. An exploration of what lurks beneath the masks of patriarchy in the works of August Strindberg
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This thesis is an investigation into the plays and life of August Strindberg in an attempt to unravel the following curious questions they may provoke in regards to how a die-hard misogynist captured and portrayed with ... -
No man's land. An investigation of the profile, experiences and aspirations of female workers in a leading urban advertising company in contemporary Irish society
(Dublin Business School, 2001)Seidler (1989), proposes that at least since Kant and the Reformation, rationality has been the dominant western mode available for construing experience, and rationality and masculinity have been conflated so that each ... -
The power of the gaze : a Lacanian interpretation of Barbara Kruguer's photographs
(Dublin Business School, 2001)The main objective of this theoretical paper is to show the relationship between certain Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts (the gaze, sexual difference, signifier and masquerade) and the representation of women in postmodern ... -
Rattling the 'Iron Lady'
(Dublin Business School, 2014)“The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison”. Margaret Thatcher. This thesis will discuss how the neoliberal discourse and policies of the first and only British female ... -
Riot Grrrl : a postmodern feminist initiative
(Dublin Business School, 2005)This dissertation is primarily concerned with riot grrrl as a postmodern, feminist initiative. In this introduction I present two interpretations of postmodernity and situate riot grrrl as an exemplar of Cixous' 'feminine' ... -
Speaking of sex .... an investigation into sexuality and language as oppressing patriarchal organisations
(Dublin Business School, 2005)The aim of this Final Year Project is the investigation of the feminist conception that women are oppressed sexually and linguistically. The text treats both everyday actions as patriarchal organisations. The continued ... -
What happens when a woman becomes a mother?
(Dublin Business School, 2011)This thesis explores the question ‘What happens when a woman becomes a mother?’ Many women find themselves in crisis following pregnancy. The question of this thesis is important to an understanding of what may be involved ... -
The woman's perspective : representations of female desire in Nichol's The Graduate, Working Girls, and Closer
(Dublin Business School, 2010)The aim of this Final Year Project is to show how director Mike Nichols documents the changing role of women in western society over three successive generations through representations of female desire in the films The ...