Body Politics and Citizenship

Our contributors focus on the gendered meanings of the everyday lived spaces – of homes and neighbourhoods in townships and peri-urban peripheries of Cape Town and Lusaka. The individual author…

Feminist Africa Issue 13. 2009: Body Politics and Citizenship

ISBN/ISSN

1726-4596

Number of Pages

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Increasing Obesity in Treated Female HIV Patients from Sub-Saharan Africa: Po…

Objectives: To investigate changing nutritional demographics of treated HIV-1-infected patients and explore causes of obesity, particularly in women of African origin. Methods: We prospectively r…

Why Don 't I Look Like Her? The Impact of Social Media on Female Body Image

The purpose of this paper is to understand and criticize the role of social media in the development and/or encouragement of eating disorders, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction in colle…

The Politics and Economics of Body Image and Sexuality in Africa: Thoughts fr…

Body image is internal and external. It is seen by ourselves and by others. Social body image constructs seem to be built on what is deemed to be beautiful within our cultural contexts, which in …

The Process of Becoming a Woman’s Body: Menstruation and the Containment of…

Most girls begin puberty somewhere between the ages of eight and twelve, going through the most significant mandatory body change of their lives until menopause.1 Puberty is, for both sexes, confus…

Nudity, Protest and the Law in Uganda

Naked protests may seem like the most unlikely topic imaginable for a professorial inaugural lecture in law. But, as you well know, the law touches on literally every aspect of our day-to-day lives…

Resisting Body Oppression: An Aesthetic Approach

This article argues for an aesthetic approach to resisting oppression based on judgments of bodily unattractiveness. Philosophical theories have often suggested that appropriate aesthetic judgments…