- Title
- Expurgating the Monstrous: an analysis of the South African Daily Sun's coverage of gang rape
- Creator
- Boshoff, Priscilla A, Prinsloo, Jeanne
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143436
- Identifier
- vital:38246
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2014.903286
- Description
- The most widely read South African tabloid, the Daily Sun, covered the “Soweto gang rape” in 2012. These acts were recorded by the perpetrators on mobile phones and “went viral” as the media continuously noted. We draw on the concept of provider love that informs relations of intimacy in certain South African spaces, central to which is its materiality and the assumption that a “real” man is able to command material resources, a prerequisite for having both a girlfriend and sex. For working class and township youth these possibilities are constrained and their sense of being left behind is lived in gendered ways with violent masculinities becoming a marker of tough sexual masculinity. Informed by Foucauldian understandings of discourse, the paper undertakes a close reading of this coverage, including the reporting, editorials, and letters. If those arrested for rape are constituted as monstrous, the analysis indicates how the responses are similarly vengeful. These responses deny the forms of masculinity produced within these marginalised spaces and foreclose on other possibilities for understanding these violent acts.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Feminist Media Studies, Boshoff, P. and Prinsloo, J., 2015. Expurgating the Monstrous: An analysis of the South African Daily Sun's coverage of gang rape. Feminist Media Studies, 15(2), pp.208-222., Feminist Media Studies volume 15 number 2 208 222 May 2014 1471-5902
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Prinsloo, Jeanne (Prof)
Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Boshoff, Priscilla A (Dr)
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SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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