Images Of Women In The Media And The Arts Question Paper
Images Of Women In The Media And The Arts
Course:Master Of Arts In Gender And Development Studies
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2009
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMME
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
(GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES)
AGD 508: IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIA AND THE ARTS
DATE: FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2009
TIME: 9.00 A.M. ? 12.00 NOON
INSTRUCTIONS:
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Answer FOUR questions only.
1. Discuss the diverse images of women and girls in the Oral Literature of a given
community in Kenya.
2. To what extent does Tinka of John Ruganda?s Burdens conform to the image of
women in East Africa.
3.
Discuss the emergence of the female prostitute character in Africa Literature.
Give ample illustrations.
4.
Basing your arguments on appropriate examples, discuss the following images of
women in arts and media;
? The nurturant
? The foolish virgins
? The femme? fatale?
5.
To what extent does the portrait of Wangu wa Makeri in Gikuyu Orature
correspond to the patriarchal content.
6.
Discuss the key areas of narration in the ABC on gender analysis that would assist
a research on the portrayal of women in the arts and the media.
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