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This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded
within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South
including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. In
this book, the contributors explore how gender, culture, religion,
masculinity, sport, and conservative politics intersect to
perpetuate and resist gendered and sexual norms. The book presents
a range of possibilities for disrupting and challenging these norms
within early childhood educational contexts. Grounded in colonial
and postcolonial discourses, the book emphasizes the entanglement
of gender and sexuality in early childhood education with legacies
of colonization and surrounding social and cultural dynamics,
highlighting our responsibility to address gender inequalities and
injustices. The book will appeal to researchers, faculty, and
teacher educators with interests in gender and sexuality in
education, international and comparative education, and early
childhood education.
Primary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on
sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect
their innocence. In countries like South Africa, where AIDS is
particularly widespread, it is especially important to address
prevention with younger boys and girls as active social agents with
the capacity to engage with AIDS as gendered and sexual beings.
This volume addresses the question of children's understanding of
AIDS, not simply in terms of their dependence but as active
participants in the interpretation of their social worlds. The
volume draws on an interview and ethnographic based study of young
children in two socially diverse South African primary schools, as
well as interviews conducted with teachers and mothers of young
children. It shows how adults sustain the production of childhood
sexual innocence, and the importance of scaling up programs in AIDS
intervention, gender and sexuality. It makes significant
contributions to the global debate around childhood sexualities,
gender and AIDS education.
Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care draws together unique
and compelling essays about the contexts of early childbearing, a
topic that is now taken for granted. It draws on empirical data,
multi-level approaches and inter-disciplinary perspectives on the
dynamics that underpin young people's experiences of being
pregnant, having a child and caring for the child. The book
explores the contexts in which young families are constituted and
shaped along with the kinds of social relationships and communities
of care that early childbearing creates (or in some instances
destroys). It shows the entanglement of gender, sexuality, race,
age and class in the formation of young families and its effects on
caring practices. This book draws together unique and compelling
accounts that address a gap in the existing literature on families
in South Africa while also providing an understanding of the
diversity of young South African families. Young Families will be
of interest and of benefit to those in the fields of Women and
Gender studies, Anthropology, Education, Sociology, History and
Demography.
This book-Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa-is
structured around four major themes: gender and sexuality
diversity; love, pleasure and respect; gender, sexual violence and
health; and sexuality, gender and sexual justice. Chapters in this
book analyse sexuality in relation to recent developments in the
Southern African region and what this might mean for contemporary
theory, policy and practice. Sex, sexuality and sexual health are
often viewed through a narrow biomedical lens, ignoring the fact
that they are profoundly social and historical in character. The
contributors in this book bring to light the entanglements of
sexuality with respect, recognition, rights and mutual respectful
pleasure. Authors draw attention to partnerships, allyships and
feminist, queer and trans coalitions in the pursuit of sexual
health and justice in the region. The book will be of interest to
final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and
activists as well as those working in Women and Gender Studies,
Critical Sexuality Studies, Sexual and Reproductive Health,
Development Studies, Public Health, Psychology, Education,
Sociology and Anthropology.
The book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter
and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider
sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on
girls' online playful and pleasurable pursuits as they explore and
expand upon their sexual curiosities. In this digital moment, the
book directs us to the multi-layered meanings around porn, as an
everyday normative experience. The book takes on an
interdisciplinary approach drawing from and inspired by new
feminist materialism and assemblage theorising. For teenage girls
porn is freely available to see in billboards, magazines, books, on
television, music videos, games, online streaming and social media
sites. Girls do not have to view hardcore porn to see porn: it is
everywhere. It argues that girls' online playful adventures are a
critical site for learning, developing, and negotiating gender and
sexuality. These meanings are constitutive of pleasure and the
pursuit of learning sexually, but they also provide a launchpad for
girls to contest race, gender, and heterosexual domination while
opening up online porn to broader interrogation and critique. The
book will be of interest to researchers across African studies,
sociology, psychology, anthropology, youth, gender and sexuality
studies, porn studies, and childhood studies.
The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised
systems of power are produced in educational settings that are
framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which
shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact
with each other. All these nuanced features of gender and sexuality
are vital if we are to understand inequalities and violence, and
fundamental to our three-ply yarn approach in this book. Focusing
on the South African context, but with international relevance, the
authors adopt the metaphor of the three-ply yarn (Jordan-Young,
2010): these being the cross-cutting themes of gender, sexuality
and violence. Subsequently, the book illustrates the intimate ties
that bind gender and sexuality with the social and cultural
dimensions of violence, as experienced in educational settings.
The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised
systems of power are produced in educational settings that are
framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which
shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact
with each other. All these nuanced features of gender and sexuality
are vital if we are to understand inequalities and violence, and
fundamental to our three-ply yarn approach in this book. Focusing
on the South African context, but with international relevance, the
authors adopt the metaphor of the three-ply yarn (Jordan-Young,
2010): these being the cross-cutting themes of gender, sexuality
and violence. Subsequently, the book illustrates the intimate ties
that bind gender and sexuality with the social and cultural
dimensions of violence, as experienced in educational settings.
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts
the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South
Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and
violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and
romance within the wider social and cultural context underwritten
by the histories of apartheid, chronic unemployment, poverty, and
the endless struggle to survive. By drawing on focus group
discussions with African teenage men and women, the book addresses
teenage Africans as active agents, providing a more nuanced picture
of their desires and their dilemmas through which sexuality and
love are experienced. The chapters in the book conceptualise
desiring love, material love, pure love, forced love and fearing
love. It argues that love is intrinsically linked to cultural
practices and material realities which mold particular formations
of teenage masculinities and femininities. This book will be of
interest to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and
researchers in sociology, HIV, health and gender studies,
development and postcolonial studies and African studies.
This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1
and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and
childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African
primary schooling. Taking issue with dominant discourses which
assumes children's lack of agency, the book questions the
epistemological foundations of childhood discourses that produce
innocence. It examines the paradox between teachers' dominant
narratives of childhood innocence and children's own
conceptualisation of gender and sexuality inside the classroom,
with peers, in heterosexual games, in the playground and through
boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. It examines the nuances and
finely situated experiences which draw attention to hegemonic
masculinity and femininity where boys and girls challenge and
contest relations of power. The book focuses on the early makings
of gender and sexual harassment and shows how violent gender
relations are manifest even amongst very young boys and girls.
Attention is given to the interconnections with race, class,
structural inequalities, as well as the actions of boys and girls
as navigate gender and sexuality at school. The book argues that
the early years of primary schooling are a key site for the
production and reproduction of gender and sexuality. Gender reform
strategies are vital in this sector of schooling.
This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1
and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and
childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African
primary schooling. Taking issue with dominant discourses which
assumes children's lack of agency, the book questions the
epistemological foundations of childhood discourses that produce
innocence. It examines the paradox between teachers' dominant
narratives of childhood innocence and children's own
conceptualisation of gender and sexuality inside the classroom,
with peers, in heterosexual games, in the playground and through
boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. It examines the nuances and
finely situated experiences which draw attention to hegemonic
masculinity and femininity where boys and girls challenge and
contest relations of power. The book focuses on the early makings
of gender and sexual harassment and shows how violent gender
relations are manifest even amongst very young boys and girls.
Attention is given to the interconnections with race, class,
structural inequalities, as well as the actions of boys and girls
as navigate gender and sexuality at school. The book argues that
the early years of primary schooling are a key site for the
production and reproduction of gender and sexuality. Gender reform
strategies are vital in this sector of schooling.
Primary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on
sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect
their innocence. In countries like South Africa, where AIDS is
particularly widespread, it is especially important to address
prevention with younger boys and girls as active social agents with
the capacity to engage with AIDS as gendered and sexual beings.
This volume addresses the question of children's understanding of
AIDS, not simply in terms of their dependence but as active
participants in the interpretation of their social worlds. The
volume draws on an interview and ethnographic based study of young
children in two socially diverse South African primary schools, as
well as interviews conducted with teachers and mothers of young
children. It shows how adults sustain the production of childhood
sexual innocence, and the importance of scaling up programs in AIDS
intervention, gender and sexuality. It makes significant
contributions to the global debate around childhood sexualities,
gender and AIDS education.
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts
the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South
Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and
violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and
romance within the wider social and cultural context underwritten
by the histories of apartheid, chronic unemployment, poverty, and
the endless struggle to survive. By drawing on focus group
discussions with African teenage men and women, the book addresses
teenage Africans as active agents, providing a more nuanced picture
of their desires and their dilemmas through which sexuality and
love are experienced. The chapters in the book conceptualise
desiring love, material love, pure love, forced love and fearing
love. It argues that love is intrinsically linked to cultural
practices and material realities which mold particular formations
of teenage masculinities and femininities. This book will be of
interest to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and
researchers in sociology, HIV, health and gender studies,
development and postcolonial studies and African studies.
The challenges and difficulties of being pregnant and a young
parent in South African schools are brought to light in this
valuable examination. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative
research conducted in secondary schools in Durban and Cape Town,
the book explores how teachers and principals respond to the
presence of pregnant learners and young parents and surveys the
attitudes of fellow learners towards them. Interviews with the
young parents themselves yield rich narratives which, accompanied
by a visual essay, delve into their lives as they confront the
overwhelming demands of pregnancy, parenting, and education.
Providing a finely textured analysis of these demands, this
reference demonstrates the ongoing need to challenge the unequal
and gendered load of pregnancy and parenting--both in schools and
the broader social context.
Changing Narratives of Sexuality engages with women's sexuality
exploring marginal as well as dominant stories in which sexuality
may figure overtly or covertly as the subject. This impressive
collection brings together a broad range of arenas in which
sexuality is embedded. From storytelling to women's engagement
within institutions in the state, the narratives of unmarried women
and stories of religious influence on women's subjectivities and
sexualities, stories on television and in print media. Sexuality is
explored in a wide range of national contexts in the global South -
Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Palestine, South Africa.
Exploring these different narratives of sexuality, told by and
about women, the book examines tensions and contradictions in the
constructions of gender, sexuality, and women's empowerment, and
analyses what scope exists for women to subvert repressive norms
and conceptions of heterosexuality, in varying disciplinary and
geopolitical contexts.
Changing Narratives of Sexuality engages with women's sexuality
exploring marginal as well as dominant stories in which sexuality
may figure overtly or covertly as the subject. This impressive
collection brings together a broad range of arenas in which
sexuality is embedded. From storytelling to women's engagement
within institutions in the state, the narratives of unmarried women
and stories of religious influence on women's subjectivities and
sexualities, stories on television and in print media. Sexuality is
explored in a wide range of national contexts in the global South -
Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Palestine, South Africa.
Exploring these different narratives of sexuality, told by and
about women, the book examines tensions and contradictions in the
constructions of gender, sexuality, and women's empowerment, and
analyses what scope exists for women to subvert repressive norms
and conceptions of heterosexuality, in varying disciplinary and
geopolitical contexts.
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