http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11650 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:16:15 GMT 2018-01-23T17:16:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14523 How does media exposure influence young girls’ sexuality? Sargayoos, Monika This literature review highlights the link between media exposure and young girls’ sexuality. The review will discuss different views that how girls’ sexuality can and cannot be influenced by western values circulated within the western media. I will argue that even though media play a critical role in shaping girls’ sexuality its not the case always rather social, cultural and economic factors are an important determinant linked with influencing women’s sexuality. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14523 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14522 Slam Poetry- A link between black feminism and oral poetry traditions George, Anna Slam poetry is a recently emerged genre in the West that has gained critical and popular attention during the last three decades. Today, universities and poetry groups across the world have slam poetry competitions. Africa and African black population has a rich tradition, especially in oral poetry though it was shunned away as a less evolved and less sophisticated genre by modern literary circles. When slam poetry, a performance oriented oral poetry gathers momentum, it is worthwhile investigating, how this new style of poetry, that is far different to canonical forms, connects the contemporary literature back to oral poetry tradition among Blacks. The project investigates and establishes such connections of slam poetry to oral poetry. Black females were the doubly oppressed minorities whose voices were strangled in throats by the colonial patriarchal society for ages since they were not given the freedom to speak out their minds first because they were women and they were Blacks. Yet, they found spaces for the ideas in performance poetry through others who spoke for them and the poets they inspired and later through genres like slam they are successful in voicing the centuries old sufferings of Black women. The Black poets who got international critical attention were mostly from America and it was only towards twentieth century that we have Africans writing about Africa. The project probes the published Black women’s literature and how much justice they could give and compares it with the slam poetry of young Black women. Books, journals, YouTube videos and lectures are used as material for the paper. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14522 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14521 Editorial Collective Report Editorial Collective This is the first second issue, that we have published and are glad to see the growth of our journal. In this issue, we publish three papers which are a mixture of an article, social commentary, and a literature review. It has been a long journey and we have received different papers, all across the globe, touching on different aspects of gender. In this issue, three papers have been published. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14521 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14520 Semiotic Study of Sindoor Dasgupta, Sharonee This social commentary aims to examine a semiotic study of Sindoor or Vermilion (a red colour powder) which is applied between hair partings by married Hindu Indian women. Sindoor is applied by the groom to the bride on the day of the marriage. By applying Sindoor, she is then considered to be his wife and enters the matrimonial life. The social commentary intends to shed light on the feminist and sociological aspect of Sindoor in Indian society and how it is celebrated by Hindu married women, yet it place the women lower in the social gender hierarchy as they are often socially expected to wear such symbols to mark a new beginning. On the other hand, married Hindu men wear no such markings to show their married status. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14520 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z