Browsing Magister Artium - MA (Women and Gender Studies) by Author "Clowes, Lindsay"
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Body positive ‘healthy’ women: Representations of health and femininities in women’s health magazine South Africa, 2013-2018
Samaai, Shirmeez (University of the Western Cape, 2022)This research explores how representations of healthy femininities are constructed through narratives of Body Positivity in the South African version of Women’s Health magazine from 2013 to 2018. In my thesis, I examine ... -
Experiences of rural girls in a historically dominated organisation: scouts in Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Eastern Cape
Van Staden, Maria (University of the Western Cape, 2006)This study explores the experiences of young rural girls in scouting practices, who reside in the rural areas of Mpumalanga, Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This exploratory study draws special reference ... -
An exploration of the gendered constructions of ‘stoner’ identity on a Western Cape campus
Brown, Natasha Carmen (University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study employed a social constructionist understanding of ‘identity’ to identify key markers of gendered ‘stoner’ identity and to consider how gendered ‘stoner’ identity is performed on a Western Cape campus. The aim ... -
Lesbians and the right to equality: Perceptions of people in a local Western Cape community
Sanger, Nadia (University of the Western Cape, 2001)When lesbians, as women divert from social norms and reject the compulsory heterosexual norm, they are either punished through legal systems for transgressing patriarchial structures or not recognised at all. As women, ... -
Perceptions of empowerment: a study of muslim women living in the greater Cape Town Metropole
Abrahams, Zulfa (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is a small scale in depth exploration into the perceptions of power held by eight Muslim women residing in the Cape Town Metropole area. Using a Qualitative Feminist approach the study aimed to explore and shed ... -
Representations of gender,race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005
Sanger, Nadia (University of the Western Cape, 2007)The aim of this study was to explore representations of gender, race and sexuality in a select group of South African magazines - Men's Health, FHM, Blink, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady - between 2003 and 2005. From a ... -
Women and Law in Malawi: The experiences of women seeking child maintenance at Lilongwe Child Justice Court
Phiri, Limbani Zakeyo (University of Western Cape, 2020)Malawi is endowed with a progressive, transformative and comprehensive legal and policy framework that guarantees the promotion and protection of human rights and justice for its citizenry, including women. The country ...