Drawing on social constructivism, and Stuart Hall’s representation theories, the purpose of this article is to examine themes of black femininity presented on the cover lines on the 12 front covers of South African True ...
The literature about race and gender includes extensive research on the representation of black women. However, most of these studies have been conducted in the West; only a few have been done in Africa in general and in ...
This article focuses on how the black body, particularly black women’s hair, is represented
in advertisements for hair relaxers published in True Love, a South African magazine
directed at black women. Using qualitative ...
