Interrogating the notion of ownership of the female body : embodiment and self-representation in my artistic practice and selected works by Nandipha Mntambo

Sanelisiwe Hermione Nkonyane

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Interrogating the notion of ownership of the female body : embodiment and self-representation in my artistic practice and selected works by Nandipha Mntambo

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Interrogating the notion of ownership of the female body : embodiment and self-representation in my artistic practice and selected works by Nandipha Mntambo

Sanelisiwe Hermione Nkonyane

MTech, University of Johannesburg

2020

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Mntambo, Nandipha

Artists - South Africa

Women in art

M.Tech. (Fine Art) Abstract : This study examines the complex paradoxes of the Nguni custom of kuhlonipha, through concepts of embodiment, self-representation and cultural disobedience’ as strategies for interrogating patriarchal views of women within this particular practice.1 Kuhlonipha is a Nguni custom that requires women to display submissive behaviour of ‘respect through avoidance’ Robert Herbert (1990:455) and it is my contention in this study that this custom disempowers women and contributes to gender inequality...

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Title: Interrogating the notion of ownership of the female body : embodiment and self-representation in my artistic practice and selected works by Nandipha Mntambo
Creators - without role: Sanelisiwe Hermione Nkonyane
Contributors - without role: L. Raubenheimer
K. Kim Berman
Awarding Institution: University of Johannesburg; MTech
Theses and Dissertations: MTech, University of Johannesburg
Identifiers: 9910989207691
Copyright: University of Johannesburg
Academic Unit: Department of Visual Art
Resource Type: Thesis