Her research primarily focuses on how images and space communicate messages in public culture through perceptions of beauty and critical theory.
McAlister's research focuses primarily on how images and space communicate messages in public culture through perceptions of beauty and critical theory.
McAlister focuses on analyzing topics including Congressional hearings, popular films, national news coverage, magazine advertisements, reality television, urban planning, and architecture.
[9] The Women's Jail is now a site that rests on the grounds of a former racially segregated prison that was in use from 1910[10] to 1983, during which apartheid laws sought to assure the dominance of white people.
The Women's Jail holds visible memories of former inmates, directing the tourists' gaze through haunting collections of personal items such as newspaper clippings.
[9] McAlister then discusses how feminist critics of visual and public memories have concerns about the use of the gaze and the ability it has to change subjects into objects that then create a uniform story.
This includes exhibits detailing how inmates were not allowed to wear undergarments and were forced to push their thighs together or utilize shoelaces to hold pads in place while working.
The article says that, if women pay too much attention to their biological clocks in order to begin a family, they will seemingly struggle to stay at the same pace as their male colleagues.
McAlister discusses her fear that bringing children into her life would cause her to be viewed as feminine and motherly which would contradict her outward professional persona as a scholar.