Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Lewis, Desiree"

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    • A conversation with Anne Phillips on multiculturalism 

      Phillips, Anne; Byrne, Deirdre; Gouws, Amanda; Lewis, Desiree; du Toit, Louise; Viljoen, Stella (Unisa Press, 2015)
      During March 2015, Professor Anne Phillips of the London School of Economics was a visiting fellow at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). On 13 March a group of nine gender scholars from different disciplines ...

    • Exploring new media technologies among young South African women 

      Lewis, Desiree; Tigist, Shewarega Hussen; van Vuuren, Monique (African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, 2013)
      This article reflects on how the use of digitised communication and social media among young black South African women can be situated and assessed within the current context. The authors focus especially on nuanced ...

    • Gender, feminism and food studies 

      Lewis, Desiree (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      Policy research and scholarship on food has rapidly increased in recent decades. The attention to 'gender' within this work appears to signal important practical and academic efforts to mainstream gendered understandings ...

    • Politics, freedoms and spirituality in Alaa Al Aswany's Yacouian Building 

      Lewis, Desiree (University of Cape Town, 2013)
      Although set in the 1990s and published in 2002, Alaa Al Aswany’s novel The Yacoubian Building conveys the corruption and brutality that led to explosive revolutions in Egypt from 2011. Moreover, his depiction of ...