The band Chastity Belt’s visual image is consistent with its lyrical content in that they challenge feminine stereotypes through a satirical approach not commonly seen in popular music. I employ a visual social semiotic analysis to investigate the meaning potentials that emerge …
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Historically, being accused of witchcraft meant death (Baker, 2015; Demos, 2008; Ehrenreich & English, 2010). More recently, identifying as a witch means living with a stigmatized and often concealed identity (Reece, 2016; Tejeda, 2015). Despite the injurious effects of stigmati…
The New Woman cyclist of the 1890s has become an important symbol of feminist liberation. At the turn of the 20th century, she emerged as a figure that resisted traditional gender expectations, and, when paired with the new technology of the bicycle, gained unprecedented mobilit…
The proliferation of academic studies of men and 'masculinity' in the last twenty years has mirrored the growth of feminist studies of women and gender relations. This thesis reflects upon these theoretical developments and examines the expression of 'masculinity' amongst employ…
How did cinema influence the many writers who also constituted the first generation of moviegoers? In Spectatrices , I argue that early moviegoing was a rich imaginative reservoir for anglophone writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Coming to cinema from the vantage of the audi…
Thania Petersen’s 2015 photographic series I AM ROYAL bears witness to the history of Malay people forcibly brought to South Africa from Southeast Asia, which begins from the time of enslavement to the contemporary politics of Islam in South Africa. In this thesis, I reconceptua…