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Dancing with dangerous desires : the performance of femininity and experiences of pleasure and danger by young black women within club spaces

Author: McLaren, Mary Gugu Tizita Date: 2007 This research was carried out in Langa Township, Cape Town and worked with 7 young black women, between the ages of 19 and 26 years old. The aim was to explore the fluidity of identity, in particular gender identity, by exploring the performance ... Read more
Discourses of gendered vulnerability in the context of HIV/AIDS: An analysis of the 16 Days of Activism Against Women Abuse Campaign 2007 in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Author: Monte, Loredana Date: 2009 This thesis explores discourses on gender and gender based violence produced in the 16 Days of Activism Against Women Abuse campaign 2007 in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The public awareness campaign united a number of local, community based ... Read more
A feminist anthropology of barriers to implementing the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP)

Author: Cox, Phyllida Date: 2007 This study aims to assess barriers within communities and at the community healthcare level that impede delivery of reproductive healthcare rights- in particular it focuses on the South African Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP), ... Read more
Gugule-tois, it's the place to be! : on bodies, sex respectability and social reproduction : women' s experiences of youth on Cape Town's periphery

Author: Mupotsa, Danai S Date: 2007 Initiating this research project I reflected on the subject of popular and youth culture, gender and sexuality; which then drove me to consider an analysis of dress codes and fashion in regards to notions of female respectability. Through my ... Read more
Multiple targets, mixing strategies: Complicating feminist analysis of contemporary South African women's movements

Author: Salo, Elaine Date: 2005 In this brief commentary, I want to focus on the importance of identifying the key aspects of identity that motivate women to participate in activism for social change. In doing so, I build on the injunction, variously expressed by Basu (1995), ... Read more
Somewhere there's a silver lining : women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats

Author: Davids, Bianca Date: 2008 In the communities of the Cape Flats, it is expected that all women will bear children and become mothers. Motherhood serves as a social and cultural indicator of femininity and enables women to access social and economic networks that knit ... Read more
Women and Politics in a Plural Society: The case of Mauritius

Author: Ramtohul, Ramola Date: 2009 Read more

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