What it means to have 'personhood': women's visual productions and identities in South Africa: in discussion with Nadia Sanger
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Sanger
KEYWORDS: IDENTITY, WOMEN
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/march-2012/nadia-sanger
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7237
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3443
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3443
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Sanger
KEYWORDS: IDENTITY, WOMEN
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/march-2012/nadia-sanger
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7237
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3443
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3443
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Abstract
As part of a post-doctoral Fulbright scholarship in the United States, I focused my project on the cultural productions of South African women of colour, and what they had to say about identity through their work. I moved from the premise that all identities are formed by the social context in which we find ourselves. As different components of our identities, gender, 'race', sexuality, culture, and ability, can therefore never be stable, or fixed. Instead, as feminist Judith Butler has noted, we are always changing; always in a process of becoming.-
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