'A pair of buttocks' that everybody hates. (23rd December 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A pair of buttocks' that everybody hates. (23rd December 2021)
- Main Title:
- 'A pair of buttocks' that everybody hates
- Authors:
- Makoni, Busi
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This article explores radical rudeness, a resistance strategy of deliberate rudeness to disrupt normative structures. Using the Uganda activist Dr Stella Nyanzi as a case study, I examine how women experiencing extreme structural marginalisation and systemic violence use radical rudeness in a nonlinguistic form (defiant disrobing) to speak back to power. Drawing from Black feminist theories of rage, I argue that radical rudeness is an instance of rage, not as a pernicious emotion, but as a legitimate strategy against patriarchy and dictatorial authoritarianism. I argue that Dr Stella Nyanzi's naked protest utilises three intersecting forms of power – biopower, symbolic power and cosmological power – to resist the authoritarian Ugandan regime, turning her naked body into a powerful weapon of resistance.
- Is Part Of:
- Gender and language. Volume 15:Number 4(2021)
- Journal:
- Gender and language
- Issue:
- Volume 15:Number 4(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 15, Issue 4 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0015-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 21522
- Page End:
- 21522
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-23
- Subjects:
- Language and languages -- Sex differences -- Periodicals
Sociolinguistics -- Periodicals
306.44081 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/GL ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1558/genl.21522 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1747-6321
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- 24593.xml