'Cover up': girls, gender and dress codes in a boarding house.
In this paper, we ask how the dress code comes to matter for black teenage girls, aged 12–15 years in the junior phase of a private boarding house in South Africa. The study draws on elements of an ethnography to illustrate how the dress code upholds gender binaries based on heteropatriarchal norms....
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 930 - 946 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2026
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