Browsing Research Publications (Women & Gender Studies) by Issue Date
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North-South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice
(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 ... -
'... 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 ... -
‘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 ... -
Experiences of mentorship with academic staff doctoral candidates at a South African university
(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 ... -
'Family comes in all forms, blood or not': disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)After nearly 25 years of democracy, lives of young South Africans are still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper considers how these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an ... -
Resisting the binarism of victim and agent: Critical reflections on 20 years of scholarship on young women and heterosexual practices in South African contexts
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The last 20 years have seen a proliferation of research, spurred by the imperatives of the HIV epidemic and reportedly high rates of gender-based violence, on heterosexual practices in the South African context. Research ... -
“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 ... -
A qualitative meta-synthesis of interpersonal violence prevention programs focused on males
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Exceptionally high levels of interpersonal violence have triggered a call by many experts for the need to determine effective ways to address the onset and effects of exposure to interpersonal violence. The specific aim ... -
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 ... -
Student accounts of space and safety at a South African university: implications for social identities and diversity
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Transformation efforts in South African higher education have been under increased scrutiny in recent years, especially following the last years of student activism and calls for decolonization of universities. This article ... -
Embodied pedagogies: performative activism and transgressive pedagogies in the sexual and gender justice project in higher education in contemporary South Africa
(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 ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Student protests in South Africa flag the well-documented lack of progress in transforming universities which mirror deeply entrenched inequalities. The imperative to challenge a system of higher education that continues ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2018)Student protests in South Africa over the last few years have re-energized the project of social justice in higher education. While emphasis has been on decolonizing the curriculum and the university spaces, there has also ... -
“Because they are me”: Dress and the making of gender
(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 ... -
“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 ... -
Be a little careful: Women, violence, and performance in India
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)In this article Swati Arora analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and exploring its engagement with ... -
Touching matters: Affective entanglements in Corona time
(SAGE Publications, 2021)This article troubles touch as requiring embodied proximity, through an affective account of virtual touch during coronatime. Interested in doing academia differently, we started an online Barad readingwriting group from ... -
Men, masculinities, peace, and violence: A multi-level overview on justice and conflict
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...