Browsing by Author "Samaai, Shirmeez"

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    Body positive �healthy� women: Representations of health and femininities in women�s health magazine South Africa, 2013-2018
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Samaai, Shirmeez; Clowes, Lindsay
    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 how the magazine romanticises certain bodies and subtly pathologises others. By conducting a thematic analysis, I focus on the magazine�s presentation of women�s bodies and how these representations are linked to femininities, health, and sexuality. From a Body Positive lens, I argue that the magazine represents certain bodies as normative and �healthy� and other bodies as unhealthy and undesirable.