Maid to serve: 'Self-fashioning' and the domestic worker trope in contemporary South Africa

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dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-17T15:11:27Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-17T15:11:27Z
dc.date.issued 2017-03-28 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10830
dc.description.abstract This article investigates how the domestic worker sartorial trope is reflected and embodied in contemporary South African culture. Domestic work has received very little public or media attention from feminists, trade unionists, or even political activists broadly until the recent movement of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). This article observes how the South African political party, the EFF, use the domestic worker dress as a subversionary tactic in sociopolitical culture. By appropriating the archetypal domestic worker dress, the EFF demonstrate both identification with the domestic worker and a subversion of what the domestic worker dress has, for so long, inferred. In the context of post-apartheid South Africa, the author examines the domestic worker trope and the significance of dress. This article uses critical discourse analysis and Pierre Bourdieu' s theory of habitus to explicate both the personal and political significance of the domestic worker dress in contemporary South Africa. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.subject DOMESTIC WORKERS en
dc.title Maid to serve: 'Self-fashioning' and the domestic worker trope in contemporary South Africa en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 8(2) en
dc.BudgetYear 2016/17 en
dc.ResearchGroup Human and Social Development en
dc.SourceTitle Journal of African Media Studies en
dc.ArchiveNumber 9684 en
dc.PageNumber 127-143 en
dc.outputnumber 8575 en
dc.bibliographictitle Mahali, A. (2016) Maid to serve: 'Self-fashioning' and the domestic worker trope in contemporary South Africa. Journal of African Media Studies. 8(2):127-143. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10830 en
dc.publicationyear 2016 en
dc.contributor.author1 Mahali, A. en


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