The “Miss Curvy Uganda” pageant: representation, commodification and exploitation of women’s bodies
In early February 2019, Godfrey Kiwanda, a Uganda Junior Minister of Tourism proposed a beauty pageant dubbed, “Miss Curvy Uganda,” to publicly showcase voluptuous Ugandan women as means of attracting foreign tourists to generate more foreign currency earnings. The proposal drew sharp criticisms tha...
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Social Semiotics
2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/428 |
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