Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Women and Gender Studies)
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Exploring the journey to maternal death: gender and human rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape province, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)In this thesis, I use gender and human rights approaches to examine and analyse the major causes of maternal mortality, which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. ... -
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 encounter with the structural and spiritual violence of coloniality: Intersectional understanding of black students’ experiences of exclusion in higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Since the fall of Apartheid, the new mandate of the democratic South African government has been to provide equal quality education for all and to desegregate the education system. However, the national government’s ... -
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 ... -
Exploring the Journey to Maternal Death: Gender and Human Rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)In this thesis, I use gender and human rights approaches to examine and analyse the major causes of maternal mortality, which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. ... -
Representations of gender, race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)In this thesis, I explore representations of gender, race and sexuality in a select group of South African magazines - Men's Health, FHM, Blink, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady - between 2003 and 2005. From a ... -
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 ... -
"Yes madam, I can speak!'': A study of the recovered voice of the domestic worker
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Events in the last few years on the global stage have heralded a new era for domestic workers, which may afford them the voice as subaltern that has been silent until now. Despite being constructed as silent and as ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Soccer stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of gender equity practices in soccer at four Western Cape universities in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This study presents an exploration of a group of soccer stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of gender equity practices at four Western Cape universities in South Africa. It discusses female soccer players’ experiences ... -
Narratives of constructing as gay and having relationships in contemporary South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This study examined how gay men construct a gay identity and have relationships within a heteronormative (Kritzinger, 2005) society in South Africa. The impact of this study is that homophobia continues to persist within ... -
An exploratory study of experiences of parenting among a group of school-going adolescent mothers in a South African township
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This study explored adolescent girls' subjective experiences of being young mothers in school, focusing on their personal and interpersonal relationships within their social contexts. Participants included 15 young black ... -
Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)In this study an attempt was made to explore the challenges with regard to publications experienced by academic women at three selected Historically Black Universities (HBUs). Although based predominantly within a feminist ...
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