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Violence against lesbians and (IM) possibilities for identity and politics
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In 2006 South Africa extended marriage rights to gay and lesbian citizens, further signposting their legal inclusion in the post-apartheid order. This inclusion is marked by homophobic murder, signifying the continued ...
Migration and body politics: a study of migrant women workers in Bellville, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Migration has become very prominent in South Africa, and unlike most countries on the continent, it is an extremely prominent destinations for migrants. The country attracts migrants because there is a common perception ...
Representations of fatherhood and paternal narrative power in South African English literature
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This study explores the different ways that South African novels have represented fatherhood across historical periods, from the dawn of apartheid to the post-transitional moment. It is argued that there is a link between ...
Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
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 ...
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) ...
Drag kings in Cape Town: space and the performance of gendered subjectivities
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ...
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. ...
Telling tales of identity: an interpretation of women's narratives
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This paper examines selected discourses found in the journals kept by 21 working-class women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal aim of the paper is to examine how emotion, voice ...
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 ...