Communications Handbook: Developing Good Practice for Women's Rights Organisa…

Whilst more women's rights organisations recognise the need to strengthen their communications capacities, it is still a relatively low priority for most. The inability to prioritise communic…

Reclaiming Popular Culture to Promote Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment

In order to further promote gender equality and women's empowerment, there is a need for women's rights organisations to adopt strategies that can target a mass base of the population if perception…

Reconstructing Gendered Narratives Online: Nudity for Popularity on Digital P…

The focus of this paper is on how young female internet users in Africa, with emphasis on Kenya, are constructing their own gendered narratives online. The emphasis is on how they are appropriating…

A Communication Handbook: A Handbook for Women's Rights Organisations by the …

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978-9988-1-4419-7

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1. Introduction: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media

Social media platforms have grown by leaps and bounds over the past eight years, as has social media activism against sexual violence. The intensification of the #MeToo Movement in 2017 has spurred…

Rule-guided Expression: Gender Dissent across Mediated Literary Works

This paper is concerned with the examination of rule-guided cultural and thematic battles enacted by women writers in two historical moments—the late nineteenth- and early twenty-first centuries�…

How Peer Conversations about HIV/AIDS Media Messages affect Comprehension and…

Most existent research on the effects of interpersonal discussions about health campaign messages is based on surveys. In this study, we analysed actual conversations about an HIV/AIDS poster to fi…

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…

Monstrous Agents: Cyberfeminist Media and Activism

This paper considers two important artworks of the 1990s as markers of the cyberfeminist moment. “A CyberFeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century” (1991) by VNS Matrix and carrier (1996) by Meli…

Rape: A South African Nightmare, by Pumla Dineo Gqola. Johannesburg: MF Books…

In the two years since the publication of Pumla Gqola’s third book, Rape: A South African Nightmare, the quotation above is the one most cited in the myriad reviews of her work and in the conve…