Theo Sonnekus

“Jock and the Great Outdoors”: White American Masculinities, Gay Reader-Tourists, and Fantasies of Africa in Postwar Physique Magazines

This article draws from critical discourse analysis to explore motifs in editorial information produced on images by the South African photographer Jock in postwar physique magazines aimed at (mostly white) gay readerships. The research shows that these recurrent narratives turne...