Bachelor Student Prize Winner

Eighteen students completed their bachelor's degree in 2020 with a thesis that was labelled ‘excellent’ by their faculty. Here you will find a short introduction to these excellent theses in the form of an "elevator pitch" from each student, plus a video in which the supervisor briefly addresses the lucky winner.

Greta Magnani

 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Bachelor Arts and Culture

"Female Anger. You ask: why give anger a gender?"

Greta's elevator pitch 
After some research within the feminist literature in relation to the #MeToo movement has revealed, female anger is an emotion which plays a significant role within the workings of this social movement. However, due to its societal pre-conceptions and historical suppression it has not yet gained the focus of attention it deserves. In this Thesis, I investigate what type of anger is being supported by feminists in practice. Is it a productive and future-oriented anger, or one that remains stuck in the past holding
retributive wishes? By relying on Nussbaum’s three types of anger, using a re-adaptation of feminist CDA, and analysing a sample of the voices of #MeToo, the complexity of the matter, but also the potency and revolutionary force female anger holds, if used consciously, is underlined.