Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Feminism"
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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 ... -
Artistic Interventions in the Historical Remembering of Cape slavery, c.1800s
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This mini-thesis thesis intends to grapple with silences by looking the possibilities of reconceptualising archives through notions of “traces,” “absence,” and “fragments.” Examining archives as bodies of knowledge, a ... -
Bearing one’s cross: a critical analysis of Mary Grey’s view on atonement
(2008)The aim of this research project was to seek a reinterpretation of the Christian motif of 'bearing one's cross'. This motif has been widely criticized by feminist theologians as an instrument that exacerbates the oppression ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Decentering nationalism: Representing and contesting Chimurenga in Zimbabwean popular culture
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This study seeks to uncover the non-coercive, intricate and insidious ways which have generated both the 'willing' acceptance of and resistance to the rule of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe. I consider how popular ... -
Experiences of rural girls in a historically dominated organisation: scouts in Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Eastern Cape
(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 exploratory study of experiences of parenting among female students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Advancement in education has ensured that there is parity in terms of enrolment for both females and males at tertiary institutions. However, women students continue to face challenges to advancing in education. Given that ... -
Family dynamics in home-based care settings of Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands in Mutasa North rural district
(2011)Ever since United Nations’ declaration of 1994 as the Year of the Family, the study and understanding of families has taken center stage, albeit with constant references to ‘normal’ versus ‘deviant’ families based on ... -
Gender and landscape in the works of Olive Schreiner
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)My research will focus on the relationship between gender and landscape as portrayed in Olive Schreiner’s first published novel, The Story of an African Farm, and her much later novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, ... -
Gender equality and happiness among South African women
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Have South African women's lives become happier since the transition to democracy? If they are, could this be linked to gender equality? This is the central question of this study. This study explored a group of ... -
Perceptions of empowerment: a study of muslim women living in the greater Cape Town Metropole
(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 ... -
Place, space and patriarchal femininities in selected contemporary novels by African women writers
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In much feminist literature, women’s spaces are analysed as constructive and supportive sites that may offer respite from patriarchy. However, women’s spaces are not inherently emancipatory. Through the socio-spatial ... -
The representation of women in four of Naguib Mahfouz's realist novels: Palace walk, Palace of desire, Sugar street and Midaq alley
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis involved the various discourses around Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz's representation of women in four of his most well-known novels, which were originally written in Arabic. At the one extreme, he is described ... -
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 ... -
Theorising women: the intellectual contributions of Charlotte Maxeke to the struggle for liberation in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)The study outlines five areas of intervention in the development of women studies and politics on the continent. Firstly, it examines the problematic construction and the inclusion of women in the narratives of the liberation ...