- Title
- The Women of SunLand: Narratives of Non-Compliant Women in the Daily Sun Tabloid Newspaper, South Africa
- Creator
- Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455534
- Identifier
- vital:75437
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2021.1987284
- Description
- Post-apartheid, patriarchal gender relations and the violence they gen-erate continue to contradict the promise of the Bill of Rights contained in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, which guarantees women a range of rights. How these contradictions are represented within popular media has implications for the achieve-ment of gender justice, for they offer ways of imagining the forms that such justice might take. One popular local publication is the Daily Sun, a tabloid newspaper. Rather than simply aligning itself with the gender status quo, as tabloids in other spaces are sometimes accused of do-ing, the Daily Sun attempts both to critique and to form its readers’ so-cial and gender identities as members of “SunLand”, the tabloid's imag-ined community. Using Connell's constructive model of the gender or-der, and interpretive methods in line with critical discourse analysis, in-cluding lexicalisation and narrative analysis, the author analyses the tabloid's 2011 coverage of women whose non-conforming and resistant femininities challenge patriarchal gender relations in township spaces. The findings suggest that while certain forms of non-compliant feminini-ties are condemned, others are validated and the violent masculinities they resist censored. That non-compliant femininities can be also vio-lent is a troubling feature of SunLand's gender order.
- Format
- 20 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research
- Relation
- Boshoff, P., 2021. The Women of SunLand: Narratives of Non-Compliant Women in the Daily Sun Tabloid Newspaper, South Africa. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, 47(3), pp.50-69
- Relation
- Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research volume 47 number 3 50 69 2021 1753-5379
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Boshoff, Priscilla A (Associate Prof)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU School of Journalism and Media Studies
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