Browsing Linguistics by Subject "Gender"

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    • Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online 

      Shaikjee, Mooniq (University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
      The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ...

    • Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics? 

      Shaikjee, Mooniq; Stroud, Christopher (Wiley, 2017)
      In focus in this paper is the genre of drag, and the uses to which it is put by its proponents in subverting conventional and repressive (Western) models of gender, sexuality and race. We raise the question of to what ...

    • Fighting HIV/AIDS through popular Zambian music 

      Banda, Felix; Mambwe, Kelvin (Routledge, 2013)
      This paper explores how HIV/AIDS education messages are transmitted through popular Zambian music lyrics. The focus is on the recontextualisation of lived experiences and Zambian cultural practices in the fight against ...