I don’t want to catch it’. Boys, girls and sexualities in an HIV/Aids environment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12232125
AutoresD Bhana (0000-0002-8504-041X, University of KwaZulu-Natal, autor correspondente), Debbie Epstein (Cardiff University)
Ano2007
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas109-125
Data de publicação2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGender and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540250601087835
OpenAlexW2002750704
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas15

This paper examines young South African school children’s understanding of HIV/AIDS. Based on ethnographic work in two schools in Greater Durban, it explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on the ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated against the backdrop of race and class specific contexts. The first part of the paper examines the children’s discourses of sex, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. We show that young children’s meanings of sex, sexuality and are not straightforward and are actively produced and defined through a range of social processes. These processes shape the extent to which young children experience sexuality within discourses of fear and pleasure. Young children’s meanings of HIV/AIDS are explored in the second part of the paper. Here we show how their knowledge of HIV/AIDS is socially structured through class/race and gender and these forms of social relations provide the framing and reference points for children’s constructions of meanings around HIV/AIDS. We finish the paper by raising some theoretical and practical/political questions about the implications of what we have found for HIV/AIDS education in South Africa

Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Framing (construction · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human sexuality · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sex education · Sexuality education · Social class · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology