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Jessie Cohen
Reading Naked Girls Reading: Are we dismantling or reinforcing gendered expression?
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Jessie Cohen
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22 Jul 2016
Adhering to normative aesthetics should be avoided when attempting to empower the natural.
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Sex exhibition is fair on representation but short on alternative heterosexual sex
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Jessie Cohen
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26 May 2016
The Sex exhibition, at Stevenson Gallery in Braamfontein, doesn’t go far enough to explain the problems specific to our generation.
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European Film Festival: The gender catch-22
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Jessie Cohen
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7 May 2015
Can the mostly male-directed films in the 'A Woman's World' film festival truly capture the female voice?
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Do not pass Van Gogh
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Jessie Cohen
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23 Apr 2015
A new film shows the artist’s work in incredible detail, but fails to explore new paths into his turbulent mind.
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Stories that push the boundaries of the female experience
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Jessie Cohen
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7 Apr 2015
A no-holds-barred insight into what it is like to be a woman in present-day South Africa, fraught as it is with taboos and dangers.
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The bokkie stops here: Let’s make feminism fashionable again
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Jessie Cohen
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27 Mar 2015
The fight for women's rights has too often been stigmatised and ignored in favour of race politics.
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Face the fro and say hello, gorgeous
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Jessie Cohen
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12 Mar 2015
Frizz is fine for men, but women must iron out or wig up? That sheitel ain't funny, girl.
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Fifty shades of sexual ambiguity
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Jessie Cohen
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19 Feb 2015
Fifty Shades of Grey takes a nuanced approach to sex and power, but it is far too pedestrian to be called truly provocative feminist cinema.
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To wax lyrical for a lad – or not
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Jessie Cohen
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19 Feb 2015
In the best possible scenario he'd pay attention to the process I'd undergo for him and he'd get a shiver down his spine at how unnatural it all is.
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Sexual healing: An African sex safari
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Jessie Cohen
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12 Feb 2015
The African Sexual Healing Tour is empowering, but bruised by its bland approach to heterosexual cliché.
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This is where the bodice is buried
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Jessie Cohen
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5 Feb 2015
A headmaster's memoir dips into risqué territory, but what principles lie behind the lurid prose?
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When cinema casts gay desire as deviant behaviour
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Jessie Cohen
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23 Jan 2015
A former wrestler's furious response to his portrayal in the Oscar-nominated film underscores society’s resistance to sexual difference.
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