Dependent Empowerment: Gender and Race in Images of African Development

• Author / Creator

  Kamphuis, Melissa

• 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
  external development projects.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Media
  • International Development
  • Narratives
  • Intersectionality
  • Visual Imagery

• Graduation date

  Spring 2014

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Arts

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3TH8BW28

• 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.