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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 ...
Deconstructing the 'sugar daddy': A critical review of the constructions of men in intergenerational sexual relationships in South Africa
(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 ...
'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
(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 ...
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 ...
“It’s not a simple thing, co-publishing”: challenges of co-authorship between supervisors and students in South African higher educational contexts
(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 ...
“We don't really see a problem in music because that s**t makes you want to dance”: Reflections on possibilities and challenges of teaching gender through hip-hop
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Hip-hop culture has been criticised as sexist and misogynist. It is also condemned for being exploitative of black women’s identity and for perpetuating gendered and sexualised assumptions about female musicians. This ...
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 ...
Participating unequally: Student experiences at UWC
(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 ...
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 ...