Browsing by Author "Shefer, Tamara"
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Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
Shefer, Tamara; Clowes, Lindsay; Vergnani, Tania (Taylor & Francis, 2012)Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings ... -
North-South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice
Shefer, Tamara; Hearn, Jeff; Ratele, Kopano (Scandinavian University Press, 2015)Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North-South centres and margins has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies and engagement with men and masculinities. This ... -
Participating unequally: Student experiences at UWC
Clowes, Lindsay; Shefer, Tamara; Ngabaza, Sisa (UNISA Press, 2017)This paper uses Nancy Fraser’s concept of participatory parity to reflect on data gathered by and from third year students in a final year research module in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of ... -
Pathways to gender equitable men: Reflections on findings from the International Men and Gender Equality survey in the light of twenty years of gender change in South Africa
Shefer, Tamara (SAGE Publications, 2014)This article reflects on the findings of the International Men and Gender Equality survey through the lens of contemporary South African contexts of change. While huge strides have been made toward gender justice in South ... -
Policy commitments vs. lived realities of young pregnant women and mothers in school, Western Cape, South Africa
Ngabaza, Sisa; Shefer, Tamara (Elsevier, 2013)Reproductive rights in South Africa continue to be undermined for young women who fall pregnant and become mothers while still at school. Before 1994, exclusionary practices were common and the majority of those who fell ... -
Pregnant girls and young parents in South African schools
Bhana, Deevia; Clowes, Lindsay; Morrell, Robert; Shefer, Tamara (UNISA Press, 2008)Since the promulgation of the South African Schools Act in 1 996, it has become illegal to exclude pregnant girls from school. Influenced by feminist research, policy has sought to assist pregnant girls and young parents ... -
Resisting the binarism of victim and agent: Critical reflections on 20 years of scholarship on young women and heterosexual practices in South African contexts
Shefer, Tamara (Taylor & Francis, 2016)The last 20 years have seen a proliferation of research, spurred by the imperatives of the HIV epidemic and reportedly high rates of gender-based violence, on heterosexual practices in the South African context. Research ... -
'She's a slut ... And it's wrong': Youth constructions of taxi queens in the Western Cape
Strebel, Anna; Shefer, Tamara; Potgieter, Cheryl; Wagner, Claire; Shabalala, Nokuthula (SAGE Publications, 2013)Recent research on young women’s sexuality highlights the transactional nature of relationships among young people, as well as the increase in intergenerational sexual relationships. These unequal and often coercive sexual ... -
South African schools' responses to pregnant girls and young parents: a study of some Durban and Cape Town secondary schools
Bhana, Deevia; Clowes, Lindsay; Morrell, Robert; Shefer, Tamara (Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis, 2008)Since the promulgation of the South African Schools Act in 1996 it has become illegal to exclude pregnant girls from school. Influenced by feminist research, policy has sought to assist pregnant girls and young parents to ... -
Student accounts of space and safety at a South African university: implications for social identities and diversity
Shefer, Tamara; Strebel, Anna; Ngabaza, Sisa; Clowes, Lindsay (SAGE Publications, 2018)Transformation efforts in South African higher education have been under increased scrutiny in recent years, especially following the last years of student activism and calls for decolonization of universities. This article ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
Ngabaza, Sisa; Shefer, Tamara; Clowes, Lindsay (South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Student protests in South Africa flag the well-documented lack of progress in transforming universities which mirror deeply entrenched inequalities. The imperative to challenge a system of higher education that continues ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
Ngabaza, Sisa; Shefer, Tamara; Clowes, Lindsay (Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2018)Student protests in South Africa over the last few years have re-energized the project of social justice in higher education. While emphasis has been on decolonizing the curriculum and the university spaces, there has also ... -
Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness
Ratele, Kopano; Shefer, Tamara; Clowes, Lindsay (Sage Publications, 2012)The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ... -
Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens: male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
Potgieter, Cheryl; Strebel, Anna; Shefer, Tamara; Wagner, Claire (Taylor & Francis Open, 2012)Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships ... -
Teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts: deconstructing school narratives and understanding policy implementation
Shefer, Tamara; Bhana, Deevia; Morrell, Robert (University of the Free State, 2013)South African national education policy is committed to promoting gender equality at school and to facilitating the successful completion of all young people’s schooling, including those who may become pregnant and parent ... -
Who needs a father? South African men reflect on being fathered
Clowes, Lindsay; Ratele, Kopano; Shefer, Tamara (Taylor & Francis, 2013)The legacy of apartheid and continued social and economic change have meant that many South African men and women have grown up in families from which biological fathers are missing. In both popular and professional ...