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Contestations of the meanings of love and gender in a university students' discussion
(UNISA PressRoutledge, 2013)
Love is a fluid and complex concept that is difficult to define comprehensively. Its expressions, however, show
that love is not only gendered but also influenced by one's social and economic positioning. Family ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness
(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, ...
Perceptions of staffriding in Post-Apartheid South Africa: the lethal thrill of speed or the masculine performance of a painful past?
(Elliot & Fitzpatrick Inc., 2010)
Staffriding, or train surfing, involves taking life threatening physical risks by moving around the outside of moving trains. In aiming to better understand this risky practice, this small scale qualitative study used three ...
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 ...
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 ...
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: views of some male university students
(Medical Research Council, 2010)
This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and
protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students
who participated ...