Browsing Women & Gender Studies by Author "Shefer, Tamara"
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'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
Shefer, Tamara; Ngabaza, Sisa (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 ... -
“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. ... -
Deconstructing the 'sugar daddy': A critical review of the constructions of men in intergenerational sexual relationships in South Africa
Shefer, Tamara; Strebel, Anna (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 ... -
Disrupting the Colonial Gaze Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People in South Africa
Shefer, Tamara (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 ... -
Editorial: reflections on men, masculinities and meaning in South Africa
Shefer, Tamara; Bowman, Brett; Duncan, Norman (Psychology in Society, 2008)This special issue embodies a contribution to what we consider to be a critical academic and political debate on the contours and expressions of masculinities in South Africa and how these intersect with the lived realities ... -
Embodied pedagogies: performative activism and transgressive pedagogies in the sexual and gender justice project in higher education in contemporary South Africa
Shefer, Tamara (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)In this chapter, responding to the call to rethink "the fundamental concepts that support such binary thinking" and to recognise "the agential possibilities and responsibilities for reconfiguring the material-social ... -
Experiences of mentorship with academic staff doctoral candidates at a South African university
Strebel, Anna; Shefer, Tamara (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 ... -
Gendering disability and disabling gender: Critical reflections on intersections of gender and disability
Mohamed, Kharnita; Shefer, Tamara (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, ... -
“Girls need to behave like girls you know”: the complexities of applying a gender justice goal within sexuality education in South African schools
Ngabaza, Sisa; Shefer, Tamara; Catriona, Ida Macleod (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Sexuality education, as a component within the Life Orientation (LO) programme in South African schools, is intended to provide young people with knowledge and skills to make informed choices about their sexuality, their ... -
'... a huge monster that should be feared and not done': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa
Shefer, Tamara; Kruger, Lou-Marie; Macleod, Catriona; Baxen, Jean; Vincent, Louise (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 ... -
‘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
Kruger, Lou-Marie; Shefer, Tamara; Oakes, Antoinette (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 ... -
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Zimbabwe: across-sectional study of prevalence, predictors and associations with HIV
Shamu, Simukai; Abrahams, Naeemah; Zarowsky, Christina; Shefer, Tamara; Temmerman, Marleen (Public Library of Science, 2013)objective To describe the occurrence, dynamics and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy, including links with HIV, in urban Zimbabwe. methods A cross-sectional survey of 2042 post-natal women ... -
“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 ... -
Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa: Gendered norms, justice and transformation
Shefer, Tamara; Macleod, Catriona (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 ... -
Masculinity, sexuality and vulnerability in 'working' with young men in South African contexts: 'you feel like a fool and an idiot...a loser'
Shefer, Tamara; Kruger, Lou-Marie; Schepers, Yeshe (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 ... -
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 ... -
Men, masculinities and young people: north-south dialogues
Shefer, Tamara; Hearn, Jeff; Ratele, Kopano (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 ... -
Men, masculinities, peace, and violence: A multi-level overview on justice and conflict
Shefer, Tamara; Hearn, J; Ratele, K (Routledge, 2021)The relations between men, masculinities and violence, peace, justice, and conflict are of clear importance, yet often remain unaddressed explicitly in analysis, policy, and practice. This chapter overviews the large body ... -
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 ...