Thembeka Myende
Biographic Data
| ID | 6596818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thembeka Myende |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thembeka |
| FAMILY NAME | Myende |
| SIGNATURE | MYENDE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5783-6341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘ We girls like pleasing boys’
This article examines how teenage girls in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, navigate heterosexual relationships shaped by emotional dependency, patriarchal moralities, and intersecting structural inequalities. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with 48 school-going girls, and framed through intersectional Afro-feminist perspectives, the article shows that sexual risk-taking among rural teenage girls is rooted not in ignorance but in affecti…
Breaking through the ivory ceiling
Purpose Early-career women academics (ECWAs) in South Africa face distinct challenges in higher education, particularly across four key performance areas: teaching, research, community engagement and academic citizenship. While institutional transformation initiatives have increased women's representation in higher education institutions (HEIs), the unique experiences of ECWAs remain underexplored. This study aims to examine the societal and stru…
They call you mother of the injection’
This article examines the reproductive anxieties of girls and young women in rural Mthwalume, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which is a context marked by high fertility expectations and limited access to confidential, non-judgemental, accessible, developmentally responsive, youth-friendly reproductive health care. Guided by African feminist and social constructionist frameworks, we analyse how fears surrounding contraception, fertility, and bodily …
Rural girls and porn
This article examines how rural South African adolescent girls navigate and interpret porn within their sexual and social worlds. Drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with 48 girls aged 15–18 years, and using the block porn/play porn framework, the study explores porn as a contradictory cultural resource shaped by rurality, gendered power, and digital inequality. Peer networks normalize the circulation of porn yet reproduce gendered …
Black Rural Girlhood and the Moral Economies of Transactional Sex in South Africa
This paper explores how adolescent girls in a rural KwaZulu-Natal community navigate transactional and survival sex within intersecting conditions of poverty, patriarchy, and postcolonial inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with forty-eight schoolgirls aged fifteen to eighteen, the study uses an intersectional Afro-feminist framework to examine how material scarcity, emotional neglect, and gendered expectations shape gi…
Redefining love
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious global issue that mainly affects women. Power and control are among the driving forces behind IPV, and are endorsed within conservative gender regimes that constitute the social ecologies within which women live and love. Socially constructed ideals of love contribute to women’s commitment to forming and remaining in relationships, even if they are abusive. This article draws on data from a study carri…
Redefining love
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious global issue that mainly affects women. Power and control are among the driving forces behind IPV, and are endorsed within conservative gender regimes that constitute the social ecologies within which women live and love. Socially constructed ideals of love contribute to women’s commitment to forming and remaining in relationships, even if they are abusive. This article draws on data from a study carri…
Redefining love
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious global issue that mainly affects women. Power and control are among the driving forces behind IPV, and are endorsed within conservative gender regimes that constitute the social ecologies within which women live and love. Socially constructed ideals of love contribute to women’s commitment to forming and remaining in relationships, even if they are abusive. This article draws on data from a study carri…
Black Rural Girlhood and the Moral Economies of Transactional Sex in South Africa
This paper explores how adolescent girls in a rural KwaZulu-Natal community navigate transactional and survival sex within intersecting conditions of poverty, patriarchy, and postcolonial inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with forty-eight schoolgirls aged fifteen to eighteen, the study uses an intersectional Afro-feminist framework to examine how material scarcity, emotional neglect, and gendered expectations shape gi…
‘ We girls like pleasing boys’
This article examines how teenage girls in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, navigate heterosexual relationships shaped by emotional dependency, patriarchal moralities, and intersecting structural inequalities. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with 48 school-going girls, and framed through intersectional Afro-feminist perspectives, the article shows that sexual risk-taking among rural teenage girls is rooted not in ignorance but in affecti…
Breaking through the ivory ceiling
Purpose Early-career women academics (ECWAs) in South Africa face distinct challenges in higher education, particularly across four key performance areas: teaching, research, community engagement and academic citizenship. While institutional transformation initiatives have increased women's representation in higher education institutions (HEIs), the unique experiences of ECWAs remain underexplored. This study aims to examine the societal and stru…
They call you mother of the injection’
This article examines the reproductive anxieties of girls and young women in rural Mthwalume, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which is a context marked by high fertility expectations and limited access to confidential, non-judgemental, accessible, developmentally responsive, youth-friendly reproductive health care. Guided by African feminist and social constructionist frameworks, we analyse how fears surrounding contraception, fertility, and bodily …
Rural girls and porn
This article examines how rural South African adolescent girls navigate and interpret porn within their sexual and social worlds. Drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with 48 girls aged 15–18 years, and using the block porn/play porn framework, the study explores porn as a contradictory cultural resource shaped by rurality, gendered power, and digital inequality. Peer networks normalize the circulation of porn yet reproduce gendered …
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Focus group (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works) · Abusive relationship (1 work) · adolescent girls (1 work)