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Women and Law in Malawi: The experiences of women seeking child maintenance at Lilongwe Child Justice Court
(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 ...
Call centres: Anonymous ‘safe spaces’ for women’s experiences of abortion stigma
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
In South Africa, abortion became a right in 1996 in terms of the Choice on Termination of
Pregnancy Act, 92 of 1996 (CTOP). However, despite this legal dispensation, debates between
pro-life (those against abortion) and ...
Complicating “tradition” and “modernity”: Young South African Women‟s Perceptions of Lobola
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
An indigenous cultural practice among the many ethnic groups of South Africa, lobola has changed immensely, especially in highly urbanised towns. It has also been the subject of several interpretations in academia, the ...
Socially just pedagogies: Towards participatory parity in higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
South Africa remains challenged by persistent poverty and inequality, the ramifications of
which are felt across the higher education (HE) sector. Many students enter universities already
hindered by socio-economic ...
Radical possibilities at the crossroads of African feminism and digital activism
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Studies abound that deal with digital activism and social movements worldwide. Many African
scholars continue to dwell on how the effects of technological advancement and access to social
media are ingrained in class and ...
Protesting death-disability-debility imaginaries: Ontological erasure and the endemic violences of settler colonialism
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
White supremacist rule socially engineered impoverishment dispossession and fomented brutality that black people in South Africa were made to endure through centuries at the settler colonial history , which was intensified ...
Rebellious Black femininities: Embodiments of freedom, desire and agency in South African popular culture from 1980 to present
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In this thesis, I explore the notion of rebellious Black femininities and how they are articulated through and within popular culture in South Africa. I focus on the biographies of some women who have occupied the South ...
An exploratory study of the representation of lesbian subjectivities in the contemporary Kenyan film Rafiki
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This research analyzes the depiction of black Kenyan lesbians in contemporary Kenyan films. In order to do so, I focus on the film Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu, a 2018 Kenyan drama film that documents the story of romance that ...
Art as accessible knowledge for challenging intersectional gender binarisms
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Arts-based research struggles to find validation within the norms of rigid Eurocentric and
androcentric academic norms. The Rhodes Must Fall movement, that started at the University
of Cape Town in 2015, and the creative ...
Body positive ‘healthy’ women: Representations of health and femininities in women’s health magazine South Africa, 2013-2018
(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 ...