Representations of Gender and Sexuality
The role of the media in creating knowledge about and shaping responses to gender and sexuality is the focus of this work. Drawing on diverse approaches, the project explores how the media in South Africa represents the ‘problem’ of gender and HIV and in turn how forms of media can be used to create alternative representations.
Media Representations
The media has a powerful impact on shaping understandings of the drivers of HIV and gender inequality. From newspapers to television, the media provides us with information about HIV, but also constructs knowledge about how to respond appropriately.
Current research explores how gender based violence is represented in newspapers. Previous work includes representations of masculinity in the Daily Sun, and the representations of gender and HIV in the South African media.
A full list of publications and presentations from this on going project is available below:
Gibbs, A. (2010). Understandings of gender and HIV in the South African media. AIDS Care, special supplement on Community Mobilisation
Gibbs, A. (2009, oral presentation). Mediated Understandings of Gender Inequality and HIV in South Africa: Implications for female participation and mobilisation. Creating Contexts for Community-Led Health Interventions: Learning from participatory HIV/AIDS programmes. LSE, London, UK. 21 September 2009 to 22 September 2009.
Gibbs, A. and Jobson, G. , (2009). Masculinities in the South African Media: An exploratory study. Rhetoric and AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa. 1 July 2009 to 3 July 2009.
Campbell, C. and Gibbs, A., (2009). The Role of the Media in Creating an Enabling Environment for Scaling Up. 4th Southern African AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa. 31 March 2009 to 3 April 2009.
Angela Buckland
Angela Buckland’s diverse portfolio tackles the complexities of gender and sexuality in the context of HIV and AIDS in southern Africa. Buckland’s work is used to highlight and juxtapose the written work of the Programme and provides graphical representations for the Programme’s publications and website.
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