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Experiences of mentorship with academic staff doctoral candidates at a South African university
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Given the growing emphasis on academic research output and the challenges encountered in expediting completion of doctoral studies especially, mentorship is increasingly being utilised as a capacity development strategy ...
'And I have been told that there is nothing fun about having sex while you are still in high school': Dominant discourses on women's sexual practices and desires in Life Orientation programmes at school
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Young women's sexuality is a contested terrain in multiple ways in contemporary
South Africa. A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based
violence illustrates how young women find it challenging to ...
Policy commitments vs. lived realities of young pregnant women and mothers in school, Western Cape, South Africa
(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 ...
Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa: Gendered norms, justice and transformation
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Research on sexual practices among young South Africans has proliferated in light of
the national imperatives to challenge the spread of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence
and unwanted early pregnancies. It has been widely ...
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
(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 ...
Gendering disability and disabling gender: Critical reflections on intersections of gender and disability
(UNISA Press, 2015)
Discourses of normalcy are deeply imbricated
in the construction of the social world and
organise relations between persons, persons
and the State, persons and institutions and
intra-psychic relations. Conversely, ...
Men in Africa: masculinities, materiality and meaning
(Elliot & Fitzpatrick Inc., 2010)
At a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor
Sandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author,
spoke to the question ‘Can men be subjects of feminist
thought?’ (1 March 2010, District Six ...
Who needs a father? South African men reflect on being fathered
(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 ...
Deconstructing the 'sugar daddy': A critical review of the constructions of men in intergenerational sexual relationships in South Africa
(Routledge, 2013)
Since a recent Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) prevalence study highlighted the relationship between
intergenerational sex and risk of HIV infection, a range of studies in Southern Africa have documented the
commonality ...
Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
(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 ...