Nadia Sanger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Sanger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanger |
| SIGNATURE | SANGER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Human Sciences Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3556-8221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘What? You Don’t Want the Baby Anymore? Well, I’m Not Sure if I Do Either’
What do fairy tale representations that trouble normative configurations of identities offer feminist imaginings of love about and for people of colour ? How does the re-writing of conventional fairy tales, framed within decolonial epistemologies that open up space for marginalised knowledges, allow us to think differently about selfhood and our relations to others? This article considers these questions through paying attention to what love look…
Bending Bodies, Signing Words
This essay is about the author’s father, a man magnanimous in his relations to others and damage-doing to himself. This essay is also about the author and her father, and his influence on her becoming. Among the familiar discursive noise of black men as damaged and black masculinity as destructive, this essay is about tracing the faint marks of another narrative line—one that offers a potentially more nuanced language of reciprocity about men as|…
A matter of race and class
This perspective is a short reflection on the South African #MenAreTrash campaign. The movement arose within the context of deep inequalities, shaped by colonial racism and mediated by ideas of gender, and where structures and systems of racism and classism continue to exist in various formations. The essay critiques the campaign in its prioritising of gender and camouflaging of race and class in ways that invisibilise the impact of structures an…
You have to bow right here’
Intimate partner violence is increasingly recognised as occurring not only between heterosexual partners but also in same-sex relationships. Heterogendered relationship norms have been identified as intersecting with other social inequalities to create and sustain power differentials between partners - and fuel violence - yet remain largely unexplored in relation to women's same-sex relationships. Building on existing feminist research we explore…
Imagining possibilities
This article considers specific cultural productions by South Africa-based artists Nandipha Mntambo and Shelley Barry, and discusses how their representations subvert hegemonic identity constructions, providing an alternative language about personhood and identity. Using a feminist intersectional analysis that connects gender, race, ability, sexuality and species, the article discusses moments of cultural production that imagine non-violent possi…
Living Ancestors
Matters of Age
This introductory essay to this special issue of Agenda draws together a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary literature on ageing, intergenerationality and gender, and locates the significance of writing from Africa within this context. The first half of the essay provides a critical and comprehensive review of available literature in the field, highlighting the significance of research and writing on the ways in which gender mediates ageing and int…
New women, old messages? Constructions of femininities, race and hypersexualised bodies in selected South African magazines, 2003-2006
This article discusses the ways in which racialised femininities are differently presented as hyper(hetero)sexual in three South African magazines targeting female readers – Femina, Fair Lady and True Love – between Citation2003 and 2006. I argue that the bodily work women are expected to perform is determined by constructs of race, where women are advised to regulate and control their physical bodies as a means of maintaining (hetero)sexual desi…
There's got to be a man in there
The aim of this article is to interrogate the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation as hyper(hetero)sexual in a select group of South African mainstream magazines. In men's magazines targeting both black and white male readers, women are depicted as objects for an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly, masculine audience. In contrast, women's magazines with a dominant white female readership, sexualize black feminin…
New women, old messages? Constructions of femininities, race and hypersexualised bodies in selected South African magazines, 2003-2006
This article discusses the ways in which racialised femininities are differently presented as hyper(hetero)sexual in three South African magazines targeting female readers – Femina, Fair Lady and True Love – between Citation2003 and 2006. I argue that the bodily work women are expected to perform is determined by constructs of race, where women are advised to regulate and control their physical bodies as a means of maintaining (hetero)sexual desi…
There's got to be a man in there
The aim of this article is to interrogate the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation as hyper(hetero)sexual in a select group of South African mainstream magazines. In men's magazines targeting both black and white male readers, women are depicted as objects for an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly, masculine audience. In contrast, women's magazines with a dominant white female readership, sexualize black feminin…
A matter of race and class
This perspective is a short reflection on the South African #MenAreTrash campaign. The movement arose within the context of deep inequalities, shaped by colonial racism and mediated by ideas of gender, and where structures and systems of racism and classism continue to exist in various formations. The essay critiques the campaign in its prioritising of gender and camouflaging of race and class in ways that invisibilise the impact of structures an…
Living Ancestors
There's got to be a man in there
The aim of this article is to interrogate the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation as hyper(hetero)sexual in a select group of South African mainstream magazines. In men's magazines targeting both black and white male readers, women are depicted as objects for an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly, masculine audience. In contrast, women's magazines with a dominant white female readership, sexualize black feminin…
New women, old messages? Constructions of femininities, race and hypersexualised bodies in selected South African magazines, 2003-2006
This article discusses the ways in which racialised femininities are differently presented as hyper(hetero)sexual in three South African magazines targeting female readers – Femina, Fair Lady and True Love – between Citation2003 and 2006. I argue that the bodily work women are expected to perform is determined by constructs of race, where women are advised to regulate and control their physical bodies as a means of maintaining (hetero)sexual desi…
Living Ancestors
Matters of Age
This introductory essay to this special issue of Agenda draws together a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary literature on ageing, intergenerationality and gender, and locates the significance of writing from Africa within this context. The first half of the essay provides a critical and comprehensive review of available literature in the field, highlighting the significance of research and writing on the ways in which gender mediates ageing and int…
Imagining possibilities
This article considers specific cultural productions by South Africa-based artists Nandipha Mntambo and Shelley Barry, and discusses how their representations subvert hegemonic identity constructions, providing an alternative language about personhood and identity. Using a feminist intersectional analysis that connects gender, race, ability, sexuality and species, the article discusses moments of cultural production that imagine non-violent possi…
You have to bow right here’
Intimate partner violence is increasingly recognised as occurring not only between heterosexual partners but also in same-sex relationships. Heterogendered relationship norms have been identified as intersecting with other social inequalities to create and sustain power differentials between partners - and fuel violence - yet remain largely unexplored in relation to women's same-sex relationships. Building on existing feminist research we explore…
A matter of race and class
This perspective is a short reflection on the South African #MenAreTrash campaign. The movement arose within the context of deep inequalities, shaped by colonial racism and mediated by ideas of gender, and where structures and systems of racism and classism continue to exist in various formations. The essay critiques the campaign in its prioritising of gender and camouflaging of race and class in ways that invisibilise the impact of structures an…
Bending Bodies, Signing Words
This essay is about the author’s father, a man magnanimous in his relations to others and damage-doing to himself. This essay is also about the author and her father, and his influence on her becoming. Among the familiar discursive noise of black men as damaged and black masculinity as destructive, this essay is about tracing the faint marks of another narrative line—one that offers a potentially more nuanced language of reciprocity about men as|…
‘What? You Don’t Want the Baby Anymore? Well, I’m Not Sure if I Do Either’
What do fairy tale representations that trouble normative configurations of identities offer feminist imaginings of love about and for people of colour ? How does the re-writing of conventional fairy tales, framed within decolonial epistemologies that open up space for marginalised knowledges, allow us to think differently about selfhood and our relations to others? This article considers these questions through paying attention to what love look…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)