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‘Body Politics’ and negotiating gender violence and child sexuality through Flatfoot Dance Company’s youth arts intervention programmes in KwaZulu-Natal – a case study (2003–2013)

Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Gender-Based Violence / By

This perspective offers a feminist engagement with the ‘dancing body’ and the languages which it articulates and which it inscribes, in order to examine how social, cultural and political discourse and ideology permeate the use and reading of this body. The perspective asks that in stepping into the difficult terrain of looking at childhood sexuality …

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‘Bad Mum Guilt’: the representation of ‘work-life balance’ in UK women’s magazines

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Social Development / By

The social policy climate, labour market trends and gendered arrangements for paid and family work mean that ‘work-life balance’ remains a key social issue in the UK. Media representations of ‘work-life balance’ are a key source for the construction of gender and working motherhood. Despite evidence of gendered representations in media coverage of other social …

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‘As a slave woman and as a mother’: women and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Social Development / By

This article explores how enslaved and freed women in Rio de Janeiro and Havana, the capital cities of the Americas’ last two slaveholding territories, played a crucial and specific part in helping speed and shape the gradual emancipation processes that unfolded simultaneously in each context during the 1870s and 1880s. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Foreign …

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