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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
'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 ...
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 ...
Governmentality and South Africa’s edifice of gender and sexual rights
(SAGE, 2021)
Leading feminist scholars and activists have critiqued the current impact of South Africa’s provisions for
gender equality and sexual rights. The country boasts one of the most progressive constitutions in the
world, and ...
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 ...
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: Views of some male university students
(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 ...
‘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 ...
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
(UNISA Press, 2021)
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be
considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics ...
Participatory relationships matter: Doctoral students traversing the academy
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
In this article, we take our thoughts for a walk through our three different doctoral journeys and experiences with the Post
Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry Webinar Series (2020–2021). The webinars presented an ...