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Jessie Cohen

Reading Naked Girls Reading: Are we dismantling or reinforcing gendered expression?

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Adhering to normative aesthetics should be avoided when attempting to empower the natural.

Sex exhibition is fair on representation but short on alternative heterosexual sex

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The Sex exhibition, at Stevenson Gallery in Braamfontein, doesn’t go far enough to explain the problems specific to our generation.

European Film Festival: The gender catch-22

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Can the mostly male-directed films in the 'A Woman's World' film festival truly capture the female voice?

Do not pass Van Gogh

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A new film shows the artist’s work in incredible detail, but fails to explore new paths into his turbulent mind.

Stories that push the boundaries of the female experience

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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.

The bokkie stops here: Let’s make feminism fashionable again

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The fight for women's rights has too often been stigmatised and ignored in favour of race politics.

Face the fro and say hello, gorgeous

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Frizz is fine for men, but women must iron out or wig up? That sheitel ain't funny, girl.

Fifty shades of sexual ambiguity

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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.

To wax lyrical for a lad – or not

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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.

Sexual healing: An African sex safari

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The African Sexual Healing Tour is empowering, but bruised by its bland approach to heterosexual cliché.

This is where the bodice is buried

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A headmaster's memoir dips into risqué territory, but what principles lie behind the lurid prose?

When cinema casts gay desire as deviant behaviour

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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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