Marielle L J Le Mat
Biographic Data
| ID | 6329576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marielle L J Le Mat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marielle L J |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Mat |
| SIGNATURE | LE MAT M L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8050-7834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“They looked at our vaginas but didn’t tell us why”
The frictional politics of comprehensive sexuality education
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has been shown to improve health outcomes, increase condom use and more respectful relationships, delay sexual initiation and reduce teenage pregnancy. Yet opposition to CSE remains strong. Oppositional actions or resistance to CSE can take many forms - from a teacher skipping a lesson deemed sensitive to social media reaction, to sustained anti-CSE lobbying during United Nations deliberations. To come to a…
Entering civic space
Young people are increasingly involved in advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), but research documenting their experiences remains limited. This article explores how young people advocate for SRHR in Ethiopia, Mali and Mozambique, what motivates them, what barriers they face, and how they overcome them. Building on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, the findings show that across the three countries, youth are…
Community bylaws concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights in Machinga District, Malawi
The study revealed that community bylaws were accepted but not owned by young people, and had different effects on the rich versus the poor, and girls versus young men. Bylaws were associated with punishment in terms of money, which seemed to overpower their potential to promote rights and address social norms underlying SRHR issues of the youth
But is it Comprehensive ? Unpacking the ‘comprehensive’ in comprehensive sexuality education
Background: Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is increasingly gaining traction within the international community. CSE is regarded as an important means of informing young people about their rights and sexual health, improving public health outcomes and contributing to sustainable development. Context and objective: Considerable variation exists in understandings regarding what makes sexuality education ‘comprehensive’. To gain greater clar…
Mechanisms of adopting and reformulating comprehensive sexuality education policy in Ethiopia
Over the past few years, international organisations have advanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) as a global policy to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and address gender-based violence in schools. This paper analyses policy adoption, transfer mechanisms, and reformulation of CSE in Ethiopia, a late adopter of the policy. To do this, we identify education policy transfer mechanisms and apply a gender analysis by …
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
This book explores the influence of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ capabilities, focusing on the nexus between young women’s access to education and their decision-making abilitie
Schools as change agents? Education and individual political agency in Uganda
Moulding the teacher
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is promoted around the world to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to address gender-based violence. Teachers play crucial roles in enacting CSE, yet only few studies have placed them centrally to understand CSE re-contextualisation in schools. Hence, drawing on interviews, focus group discussions, and classroom observations with 56 participants, this paper presents how CS…
Discussing culture and gender-based violence in comprehensive sexuality education in Ethiopia
(S)exclusion in the sexuality education classroom
Comprehensive sexuality education which includes discussion about gender and power is increasingly seen as an effective way of promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. Yet all too often the potential of good quality sexuality education is not realised. This study engages with young peoples’ evaluation of a sexuality education programme in Ethiopia. Using data from ethnographic field notes, focus group discussions and interviews with s…
Just add women and stir
Sexual violence, schooling and silence
Sexual violence is recognised as a public health and human rights problem worldwide. Although schools are expected to be safe places for young people and are envisaged as institutions that challenge social injustices, they are increasingly identified as sites where disproportionately high levels of sexual violence occurs. This study seeks to understand how sexual violence in schooling contexts is conceptualised and interrogated by teachers with a…
Sexual violence is not good for our country's development’. Students’ interpretations of sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
It has been increasingly recognised that sexual violence in schools is one of the major concerns with regard to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. This paper examines how boys and girls define, experience, and interpret sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and considers from their perspectives, how sexual violence can be addressed effectively in formal educational settings. Fifteen in-depth interviews …
Sexual violence, schooling and silence
Sexual violence is recognised as a public health and human rights problem worldwide. Although schools are expected to be safe places for young people and are envisaged as institutions that challenge social injustices, they are increasingly identified as sites where disproportionately high levels of sexual violence occurs. This study seeks to understand how sexual violence in schooling contexts is conceptualised and interrogated by teachers with a…
Just add women and stir
Discussing culture and gender-based violence in comprehensive sexuality education in Ethiopia
Moulding the teacher
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is promoted around the world to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to address gender-based violence. Teachers play crucial roles in enacting CSE, yet only few studies have placed them centrally to understand CSE re-contextualisation in schools. Hence, drawing on interviews, focus group discussions, and classroom observations with 56 participants, this paper presents how CS…
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
This book explores the influence of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ capabilities, focusing on the nexus between young women’s access to education and their decision-making abilitie
Mechanisms of adopting and reformulating comprehensive sexuality education policy in Ethiopia
Over the past few years, international organisations have advanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) as a global policy to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and address gender-based violence in schools. This paper analyses policy adoption, transfer mechanisms, and reformulation of CSE in Ethiopia, a late adopter of the policy. To do this, we identify education policy transfer mechanisms and apply a gender analysis by …
Sexual violence is not good for our country's development’. Students’ interpretations of sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
It has been increasingly recognised that sexual violence in schools is one of the major concerns with regard to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. This paper examines how boys and girls define, experience, and interpret sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and considers from their perspectives, how sexual violence can be addressed effectively in formal educational settings. Fifteen in-depth interviews …
Sexual violence is not good for our country's development’. Students’ interpretations of sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
It has been increasingly recognised that sexual violence in schools is one of the major concerns with regard to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. This paper examines how boys and girls define, experience, and interpret sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and considers from their perspectives, how sexual violence can be addressed effectively in formal educational settings. Fifteen in-depth interviews …
(S)exclusion in the sexuality education classroom
Comprehensive sexuality education which includes discussion about gender and power is increasingly seen as an effective way of promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. Yet all too often the potential of good quality sexuality education is not realised. This study engages with young peoples’ evaluation of a sexuality education programme in Ethiopia. Using data from ethnographic field notes, focus group discussions and interviews with s…
Just add women and stir
Sexual violence, schooling and silence
Sexual violence is recognised as a public health and human rights problem worldwide. Although schools are expected to be safe places for young people and are envisaged as institutions that challenge social injustices, they are increasingly identified as sites where disproportionately high levels of sexual violence occurs. This study seeks to understand how sexual violence in schooling contexts is conceptualised and interrogated by teachers with a…
Discussing culture and gender-based violence in comprehensive sexuality education in Ethiopia
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
This book explores the influence of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ capabilities, focusing on the nexus between young women’s access to education and their decision-making abilitie
Schools as change agents? Education and individual political agency in Uganda
Moulding the teacher
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is promoted around the world to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to address gender-based violence. Teachers play crucial roles in enacting CSE, yet only few studies have placed them centrally to understand CSE re-contextualisation in schools. Hence, drawing on interviews, focus group discussions, and classroom observations with 56 participants, this paper presents how CS…
But is it Comprehensive ? Unpacking the ‘comprehensive’ in comprehensive sexuality education
Background: Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is increasingly gaining traction within the international community. CSE is regarded as an important means of informing young people about their rights and sexual health, improving public health outcomes and contributing to sustainable development. Context and objective: Considerable variation exists in understandings regarding what makes sexuality education ‘comprehensive’. To gain greater clar…
Mechanisms of adopting and reformulating comprehensive sexuality education policy in Ethiopia
Over the past few years, international organisations have advanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) as a global policy to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and address gender-based violence in schools. This paper analyses policy adoption, transfer mechanisms, and reformulation of CSE in Ethiopia, a late adopter of the policy. To do this, we identify education policy transfer mechanisms and apply a gender analysis by …
Community bylaws concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights in Machinga District, Malawi
The study revealed that community bylaws were accepted but not owned by young people, and had different effects on the rich versus the poor, and girls versus young men. Bylaws were associated with punishment in terms of money, which seemed to overpower their potential to promote rights and address social norms underlying SRHR issues of the youth
Entering civic space
Young people are increasingly involved in advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), but research documenting their experiences remains limited. This article explores how young people advocate for SRHR in Ethiopia, Mali and Mozambique, what motivates them, what barriers they face, and how they overcome them. Building on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, the findings show that across the three countries, youth are…
“They looked at our vaginas but didn’t tell us why”
The frictional politics of comprehensive sexuality education
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has been shown to improve health outcomes, increase condom use and more respectful relationships, delay sexual initiation and reduce teenage pregnancy. Yet opposition to CSE remains strong. Oppositional actions or resistance to CSE can take many forms - from a teacher skipping a lesson deemed sensitive to social media reaction, to sustained anti-CSE lobbying during United Nations deliberations. To come to a…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · Reproductive health (7 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (6 works) · Focus group (6 works)