Case Study – Page 8 – Philippine Commission on Women

‘Heroines of their own romance’: Creative Exchanges between Life-Writing and Fiction, the ‘Scandalous Memoirists’ and Charlotte Lennox

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Journal/Magazine/Review / By Ken Aliliran

This article examines the creative relationship between lives and stories and the intrinsic relationship between autobiography and fiction, with particular attention to the ‘scandalous memoirists’ of the mid-eighteenth century. By using the more flexible concept of life-writing, the article highlights the porous nature of genres at this time and the way in which strict categorisation …

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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 Ken Aliliran

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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