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Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Femininity in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Couverture souple

Haanyama, Mazuba

 
9783844307078: Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Femininity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Synopsis

Untangling the Knots. This work is a product of my Masters Thesis Research. I was involved in a South African Netherlands Program for Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) research project. This project aimed to critically engage the role of popular culture in influencing youth cultures. Within this framework, I chose to do research on constructions of beauty as they are articulated through the politics of hair. I wanted to use the politics of hair as a lens into reading bodily performances, which negotiate political constructions of class, race and gender. By using hair and the constructions of beauty, as a lens, I intended on critically addressing contemporary cultural constructions of femininity as embedded in discourses of popular culture. I focused on young black middle class women located in a post-Apartheid context. I argue that their post- Apartheid locations position these women in critical relationship to the dynamic meanings of class and race in which I am interested, providing nuanced ways of deconstructing understandings of gendered subjectivities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mazuba N. Haanyama, MA in Social Science, Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. Bachelor of Social Science, Majors Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Cape Town. Current Position: Program Associate in the HIV and AIDS Program, OSISA (Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa)

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