Representations of gender, race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005

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dc.contributor.advisorClowes, Lindsay
dc.contributor.authorSange, Nadia
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-31T14:08:56Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-02T07:49:51Z
dc.date.available2020-08-31T14:08:56Z
dc.date.available2024-04-02T07:49:51Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractIn 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 feminist poststructuralist perspective, I argue that these magazines present particular subjectivities as normative; privileging and centering one pole within dichotomies of gender, race and sexuality. The exploration considers ideas of social responsibility in the discourses of magazine editors, and how these are linked to subjective representations of gender, race and sexuality. I focus on the magazines' presentations of racialised heteromasculinities, and its connections to presentations of women as particular kinds of sex objects. I explore the hyper(hetero)sexual presentation of black and white femininities in women's magazines, attempting to illustrate how these presentations translate into efforts to remain or become heterosexually desirable to an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly masculine audience.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/10231
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectHeteromasculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectHeterofemininitiesen_US
dc.subjectSouth-African magazinesen_US
dc.subjectBinariesen_US
dc.subjectIdentitiesen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationsen_US
dc.subjectSexualityen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.titleRepresentations of gender, race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005en_US

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