Browsing by Author "Clowes, Lindsay"
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Accidental feminists? Recent histories of South African women
van der Spuy, Patricia; Clowes, Lindsay (History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2007)This article reviews Helen Scanlon's book, "Representation and reality", and Nombonisa Gasa's "Women in South African history", and locates each against the historiography of South African women's history -
“Because they are me”: Dress and the making of gender
Shefer, Tamara; Ratele, Kopano; Clowes, Lindsay (Taylor & Francis, 2018)Young people in contemporary South Africa inhabit a multiplicity of diverse, often contradictory, economic and socio-cultural contexts. These contexts offer a range of possibilities and opportunities for the affirmation ... -
Coercive sexual practices and gender-based violence on a university campus
Clowes, Lindsay; Shefer, Tamara; Fouten, Elron; Vergnani, Tania; Jacobs, Joachim (Taylor & Francis, co-published with Unisa Press, 2009)When a 22-year-old University of the Western Cape (UWC) female student was stabbed to death by her boyfriend (another student) in her room in the university residence on 25 August 2008, the entire campus was left reeling. ... -
'Family comes in all forms, blood or not': disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family
Gachago, Daniela; Clowes, Lindsay; Condy, Janet (Taylor & Francis, 2016)After nearly 25 years of democracy, lives of young South Africans are still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper considers how these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an ... -
Gender equality is a human problem’ Teaching men and masculinities in a South African undergraduate classroom’
Clowes, Lindsay (SUN press, 2018)What is transformation in contemporary South African higher education? How can it be facilitated through research and pedagogic practices? These questions are addressed in this edited collection by established academics ... -
'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities
Clowes, Lindsay (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 ... -
“It’s not a simple thing, co-publishing”: challenges of co-authorship between supervisors and students in South African higher educational contexts
Clowes, Lindsay; Shefer, Tamara (UNISA Press, 2013)Knowledge production in South Africa remains framed by the legacies of apartheid. Developing emerging authors and local knowledges through co-authorship between supervisors and post graduate students is an important ... -
The limits of discourse: masculinity as vulnerability
Clowes, Lindsay (UNISA PressRoutledge, 2013)For many, gender equity being fair to women and men is a zero sum game in which men should be willing to give up their privileges for the creation of a more equitable and just society. The idea that men might benefit from ... -
'A living testimony of the heights to which a woman can rise’: Sarojini Naidu, Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women’s Leadership in South Africa in the 1920s
van der Spuy, Patricia; Clowes, Lindsay (Taylor & Francis, 2012)A leading force in the Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of February 1924 after receiving an invitation to support South African Indian political organisations in ... -
Masculinity, matrimony and generation: Reconfiguring patriarchy in Drum 1951-1983
Clowes, Lindsay (Routledge, 2008)In this article I discuss some of the ways in which Drum tended to ascribe ‘modernity’ to particular practices and processes in opposition to other practices and processes portrayed as ‘traditional’. In mid-twentieth-century ... -
Men and children: Changing constructions of fatherhood in Drum magazine, 1951-1965
Clowes, Lindsay (HSRC Press, 2006)This chapter explores changing representations of fatherhood and masculinity in Drum magazine over the course of the 1950s. In the early 1950s men were portrayed in close proximity to their children and adult masculinities ... -
Men in Africa: masculinities, materiality and meaning
Shefer, Tamara; Stevens, Garth; Clowes, Lindsay (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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions of staffriding in Post-Apartheid South Africa: the lethal thrill of speed or the masculine performance of a painful past?
Sedite, Dimakatso; Bowman, Brett; Clowes, Lindsay (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 ... -
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 ... -
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: views of some male university students
Clowes, Lindsay; Lazarus, Sandy; Ratele, Kopano (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 ... -
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: Views of some male university students
Clowes, Lindsay; Lazarus, Sandy; Ratele, Kopano (Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, 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 in ... -
School principals and their responses to the rights and needs of pregnant and parenting learners
Clowes, Lindsay; D’Amant, Toni; Nkani, Vuyo (HSRC Press, 2012) -
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 ...