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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...