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Empowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campus
(UNISA, 2015)
Globally and locally, research conducted with young people about safety on university campuses
focuses primarily on risk and danger, particularly sexual danger. In this body of scholarship, the
voices of young people are ...
Teaching Masculinities in a South African Classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In terms of gender equity the first two decades of South African democracy have seen
substantial change - at least where legislation is concerned. In terms of daily lived realities
however, such change seems to have had ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities
(Scandinavian University Press, 2015)
This article begins by outlining some of the prior knowledges brought by
undergraduate students to an introduction to gender studies class in the Women's
and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western ...
Gender, feminism and food studies
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
Policy research and scholarship on food has rapidly increased in recent decades. The
attention to 'gender' within this work appears to signal important practical and academic
efforts to mainstream gendered understandings ...
Men, masculinities and young people: north-south dialogues
(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 ...
A conversation with Anne Phillips on multiculturalism
(Unisa Press, 2015)
During March 2015, Professor Anne Phillips of the London School of Economics was
a visiting fellow at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). On 13 March
a group of nine gender scholars from different disciplines ...
Masculinity, sexuality and vulnerability in 'working' with young men in South African contexts: 'you feel like a fool and an idiot...a loser'
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
South Africa has seen a rapid increase in scholarship and programmatic interventions
focusing on gender and sexuality, and more recently on boys, men and masculinities.
In this paper, we argue that a deterministic discourse ...