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Dependent Empowerment: Gender and Race in Images of African Development
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- Author / Creator
- Kamphuis, Melissa
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This thesis examines the way gender and race intersect to produce a narrative of
Africa as a place in need of development. Combining a theory of intersectionality
as the interaction between race, gender, and class with the power relationships
represented in and constituted by visual imagery, this thesis discusses the ways
videos produced by the Because I Am A Girl Campaign and CARE USA
represent women and girl children in Africa. It finds that while these
organisations outwardly support the empowerment of women and girl children in Africa, each (unintentionally) reproduces gendered and race-based stereotypes
that contribute to a narrative of Africa as a place in need of and dependent upon
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- Graduation date
- Spring 2014
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Arts
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.