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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 ...
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 ...