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“Girls need to behave like girls you know”: the complexities of applying a gender justice goal within sexuality education in South African schools
(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 ...
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 ...
Editorial: reflections on men, masculinities and meaning in South Africa
(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 ...
Exploring new media technologies among young South African women
(African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, 2013)
This article reflects on how the use of digitised communication and
social media among young black South African women can be situated and
assessed within the current context. The authors focus especially on nuanced ...
Accidental feminists? Recent histories of South African women
(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
Men and children: Changing constructions of fatherhood in Drum magazine, 1951-1965
(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 ...
‘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 ...
Parents resist sexuality education through digital activism
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
South Africa has high rates of HIV infection among its young population, high rates of unintended pregnancy
among the youth, and extremely high rates of gender-based violence. Given all this, it is essential that young
people ...
Greener on the other side: Tracing stories of amaranth and moringa through indenture
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
My research, with its focus on women and food seed through the lens of indenture, has led me into the world ofleafy green vegetables and their intimate connection to women who had been brought to South Africa to servicecolonial ...