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11	On blackness: the role and positionality of Black public intellectuals in Post-94 South Africa Seti-Sonamzi, Vuyolwethu 31 January 2019 (has links) This thesis explores the role and positionality of three Black public intellectuals in post-94 South Africa, namely, Simphiwe Dana, Ntsiki Mazwai and Sisonke Msimang. For the purpose of this study, I analysed the twitter postings shared by these intellectuals on various social matters that concern the condition of the Black in post-94 South Africa. Using Fanon’s Native Intellectual Consciousness as a lens, the study seeks to capture and evaluate an emergent form of ‘cyber’ activism in the country. The main argument of this thesis is that, the concept and function of intellectualism must undergo a complete overhaul, beginning with the accommodation of more voices, particularly those of oppressed Black women. For this reason, the study is based on three Black women and seeks to dismantle the colonial lens through which Black women are studied This study not only historicises Black women as producers, users and custodians of knowledge but it also situates their lived experiences as relevant ‘knowledges’ albeit ignored in discourse. Moreover, the study is not only a form of epistemic protest against epistemic racism, but it is also a form of Black positioning in communication studies. I therefore posit that, Black Twitter is the communicative plane on which blackness performs and articulates itself, for itself. For this purpose, I conceptualise Black Solidarity within Communication studies; a field that often pretends to be only marginally affected by issues of race. This study contributes to Communication Studies, a new, raw and altruistic way of studying blackness by allowing it to think, and speak through its pain as opposed to the usual pathologising white gaze. Using the decolonial concept of a traditional Imbadu as the methodological aspect in conducting this study, I observe that even in the face of debilitating colonial hangover, blackness persists through those intellectuals whose intergenerational trauma forces them to think and speak from Blackness. The chosen intellectuals who are feminists by choice, think and speak from Blackness albeit being silenced by oppression. As such, the study itself is a pedagogical contradiction to the orthodox axiology of a detached scholar and hence written in the autobiographical form. / Communication Science / D. Phil. (Communication) Blackness Public intellectual Positionality Race and racism Black-African feminism Africana Womanism Coloniality Decoloniality Apartheid 320.5690968 Blacks -- South Africa -- Race identity South Africa -- Race relations Racism -- South Africa Liberalism -- South Africa
12	A DJ Speaks with Hands: Gender Education and Hiphop Culture Houston, D. Akil 29 December 2008 (has links) No description available. African Americans Curricula Education Multicultural Education Womens Studies Cultural Studies Hiphop gender Africana womanism feminism critical pedagogy critical theory African centered education hip hop hip pop peer mentoring autoethnography
13	Perceived oppression of women in Zulu folklore: a feminist critique Masuku, Norma 25 August 2009 (has links) In this thesis, the research focuses on the role and presentation of women in Zulu traditional literature. Employing feminism as a literary canon, the research investigates whether the perceived oppression of Zulu women is reflected in such Zulu folklore. The research aims to establish whether or not folklore was used as a corrective measure or avenue of correcting gender imbalances. This dissertation proceeds from the premise that the traditional Zulu society or culture attached to women certain stereo-typical images which projected them as witches, unfaithful people, unfit marriage partners on the other hand or brave care givers, loving mothers and upright members on the other hand. Using feminism as a scientific approach, the study investigates whether these projections were not oppressive on Zulu women. The study is scientifically organised into various chapters dealing with various subjects e.g. the feminist theory (chapter 2), portrayal of Zulu women in folktales (chapter3), in proverbs (chapter 4) and praise-poetry (chapter 5). The study concludes that the traditional Zulu woman felt depressed by this patriarchal discrimination especially in the marriage situation. In the day and age of African Renaissance, the study recommend that it is imperative for women to mould their children, especially their sons to adapt to the idea that women have changed, they have rights and priviledges which could intimidate their male ego. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African languages) Feminism Womanism Stiwanism Africana Womanism Zulu culture Folklore folktales Proverbs Praises Baby praises (izangelo) Marriage Rights Virtue Patriarchy Women Young girls Oppression Society Stereotypes 398.204963986 Zulu (African people) -- Folklore Zulu (African people) -- Attitudes Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Folklore Feminism and literature Women in literature
14	Perceived oppression of women in Zulu folklore: a feminist critique Masuku, Norma 25 August 2009 (has links) In this thesis, the research focuses on the role and presentation of women in Zulu traditional literature. Employing feminism as a literary canon, the research investigates whether the perceived oppression of Zulu women is reflected in such Zulu folklore. The research aims to establish whether or not folklore was used as a corrective measure or avenue of correcting gender imbalances. This dissertation proceeds from the premise that the traditional Zulu society or culture attached to women certain stereo-typical images which projected them as witches, unfaithful people, unfit marriage partners on the other hand or brave care givers, loving mothers and upright members on the other hand. Using feminism as a scientific approach, the study investigates whether these projections were not oppressive on Zulu women. The study is scientifically organised into various chapters dealing with various subjects e.g. the feminist theory (chapter 2), portrayal of Zulu women in folktales (chapter3), in proverbs (chapter 4) and praise-poetry (chapter 5). The study concludes that the traditional Zulu woman felt depressed by this patriarchal discrimination especially in the marriage situation. In the day and age of African Renaissance, the study recommend that it is imperative for women to mould their children, especially their sons to adapt to the idea that women have changed, they have rights and priviledges which could intimidate their male ego. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African languages) Feminism Womanism Stiwanism Africana Womanism Zulu culture Folklore folktales Proverbs Praises Baby praises (izangelo) Marriage Rights Virtue Patriarchy Women Young girls Oppression Society Stereotypes 398.204963986 Zulu (African people) -- Folklore Zulu (African people) -- Attitudes Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Folklore Feminism and literature Women in literature
15	Popular Nigerian Women's Magazines and Discourses of Femininity: A Textual Analysis of Today's Woman, Genevieve, and Exquisite Ogwude, Haadiza N. 03 June 2021 (has links) No description available. African Studies Black Studies Womens Studies Sub Saharan Africa Studies Mass Media Mass Communications Journalism Gender Studies africana womanism womanism feminism media magazines female representation in media Nigerian media African media women in media social representations theory qualitative research, textual analysis womens magazines
16	Breaking The Silence: Exploring the Narratives of Survivors of Female Genital Cutting in Kenya Chumbow, Mary-Magdalene Ngum 05 June 2023 (has links) No description available. African History African Literature African Studies Behavioral Sciences Behaviorial Sciences Black Studies Communication Cultural Anthropology Demographics Demography Ethnic Studies Families and Family Life Gender Gender Studies Geography Individual and Family Studies Mass Communications Mass Media Multimedia Communications Public Health Public Health Education Regional Studies Social Research Social Structure Social Work Womens Studies FGM Female Circumcision Female Genital Mutilation FGC Female Genital Cutting Kenya Africana Womanism Africa Alternative Rites of Passage ARPs Kenyan Women Anti-FGM Women of African Descent Traditional Practices SGBV GBV Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Gender-Based Violence

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