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Homelessness and Violence: Freud, Fanon and Foucault and the shadow of the Afrikan sex worker
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
In this thesis, I will argue that one of the ways to think about the concept of homelessness and its relationship to violence is to trace the concept as it emerges in key theoretical texts of critical intellectuals who ...
Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
(2012)
This research is a discourse analysis of a Christian ‗coloured‘ youth group, from the area of Mitchell‘s Plain, Cape Town. The aim of the analysis is to explore the ways in which the interlocutors construct their identities ...
"Passing women": gender and hybridity in the fiction of three female South African authors
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
A key aim of this study is to shed light on the representation of coloured women with reference to racial passing, using fictive characters depicted in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s (1924) God's Stepchildren, Zoë Wicomb's (2006) ...
Women’s representation in Parliament: The role of party women’s wings in Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The political participation of women in parliaments is not only important for sustainable development of every country, but it is also crucial for their voices to be heard, as they form at least half of the world’s population. ...
A 12 year review of routine data for deliveries by teenaged women in public sector health care facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, from 2000 – 2012
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Background: The factors that underlie teenage pregnancies are complex and
multifactorial. The prevailing perception is that teenage pregnancies are increasing in South Africa. However, the empirical extent and trends in ...
Whiteness and the narration of self: an exploration of whiteness in post-apartheid literary narratives by South African journalists
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Drawing on broader discussions that attempt to envision new ways of negotiating identity, nationalism and race in a post-colonial, post-apartheid South Africa, this thesis examines how whiteness is constructed and negotiated ...
Gender and perceptions of science and science education: a case study in Mitchells Plain
(2012)
The literature on the manner in which gender influences the participation and performance of
girls and boys in science and science education indicates that the disparity between the genders, in
favour of boys, persists. ...