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'... a huge monster that should be feared and not done': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa
(UNISA, 2015)
Research has foregrounded the way in which heterosexual practices for many young people are not
infrequently bound up with violence and unequal transactional power relations. The Life Orientation
sexuality education ...
'She's a slut ... And it's wrong': Youth constructions of taxi queens in the Western Cape
(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
(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 ...
‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ...
South African critical masculinities studies: a scan of past, current and emerging priorities
(Routledge, 2023)
Depending on the position from which it is read, and what is regarded as the beginning of the history of the field, South African critical studies on men and masculinities have a relatively estimable though comparatively ...
Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship
(University of Johannesburg, 2023)
Although often unacknowledged and unrewarded, peer reviewing is a crucial part of the process of academic scholarship. Surprisingly, not much has been written on the process and experience of peer reviewing, besides a few ...
Disrupting the Colonial Gaze Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)
This chapter unpacks the failures and embeddedness of much of the research on young sexualities in South Africa in an exploitative and epistemologically violent politics of knowledge. I argue that it is not only a lack of ...