Dependent Empowerment: Gender and Race in Images of African Development Open Access

[摘要] 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.

[发布机构] University of Alberta

[效力级别] Intersectionality