Uneasy bodies,femininity and death: Representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
Journal: UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)
Year: 2016

This mini-dissertation serves as a framework for my own creative practice. In this&#13;\nresearch paper my intention is to explore, within a feminist reading, representations of&#13;\nthe female corpse in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's&#13;\ntheories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and&#13;\ninterogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female corpse&#13;\nin an idealised way. Such idealisation manifests