In our consumption-and-media-orient society, alcohol advertisements in contemporary women's magazines become ripe for analysis. The text in women's magazines often have influence as agents of socialization, regularizing ...

This article discusses the ways in which racialised femininities are differently presented as hyper(hetero)sexual in three South African magazines targeting female readers - Femina, Fair Lady and True Love - between 2003 ...

Little is known about food advertising in the print media in South Africa or other developing countries. We investigated the extent to which different ethnic population groups of South Africa are exposed to magazine ...

The aim of this presentation is to reflect on the linkages between the popular, the personal and the political. I do this through interrogating the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation ...