T Shefer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 10904 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Shefer |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Shefer |
| ASSINATURA | SHEFER T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1201-8043 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 175 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Decolonial Feminisms, Decolonising Feminisms
Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication
Our oceanic swimming practice began as part of the project of doing scholarship differently in contemporary South African post-apartheid contexts. Swimming-writing-reading not only enables different ways of doing inquiry but also prompts new ways of communicating environmental injustices as we face them in/with/through the ocean. We argue the value of this practice, and the writings we generate and share, for a rethinking and reframing of environ…
Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius
This paper is written in memory of our friend and colleague, Elmarie Costandius, a visual artist and academic, whose untimely and unexpected death deeply affected us. While we had worked with Elmarie in various research projects, short courses, and workshops, over a period of ten years or so, in this article we refer to a series of encounters, in which we came together to explore a decolonial and post qualitative inquiry practice as part of a Sou…
Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene
Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies
This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women’s studies seen in a global perspective. It tackles current developments in the area by examining their multiple configurations in different countries across the world and taking stock of the tensions and controversies that have recently emerged against and within the field. The volume brings together essays from renowned fem…
Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy
Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one of the few ways in which we, as three academics from different higher education institutions, found respite in a practice of care for ourselves and others. Curious as to whether swimming and free writing could ma…
South African critical masculinities studies
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Thinking with affect, embodiment, care and relationality to do and teach critical research differently
Drawing on experiences of research, and teaching research, and other current scholarship within local critical, decolonial and feminist research, I argue the importance of a more nuanced application of reflexive practices in research. Located in the larger project of social justice in higher education and critical feminist psychology, the paper reflects on the continued dominance of extractive and representational practices in the humanities and …
Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship
This article thinks with oceans and swimming, in dialogue with decolonial feminist materialist approaches and other current novel methodologies which foreground embodiment and relational ontologies, in order to consider the conceptual potential of such diffractions for the project of alternative scholarly practices. We focus on swimming in the sea as one form of wild methodology and Slow scholarship that draws on hauntology to think about the pos…
Intimacy and Injury
This fresh-off-the-press volume, Intimacy and Injury, is not only an attempt to think with and through #MeToo in the geopolitical contexts of India and South Africa; it also serves as a vital and energetic exchange of ideas between feminist activisms in these two global Southern spaces. It is also of course a dialogue between feminist activism and feminist scholarship. Perhaps even further it may be seen as part of a larger conversation about wha…
‘Troubling’ Politics of Research on Young Sexual Practices in South African Contexts
In this article, I reflect on the last few decades of research on young sexual practices in the post-apartheid context of South Africa. I am concerned here to critically interrogate this body of work and its political effects, much of it spurred on by a global industry of reproductive health and HIV that has proliferated in the context of the HIV pandemic and high rates of gender-based violence. Drawing on a postcolonial, transnational feminist l…
Sexuality education in South African schools
South African schools are tasked with providing sexuality education through the Life Orientation curriculum as a means of challenging continued high rates of HIV, unwanted pregnancy and gender-based violence. While in theory schools are well positioned to provide appropriate knowledge for reproductive health and navigating sexual challenges within a gender justice framework, research on sexuality education in South African schools indicates that …
A feminist politics of shame
This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and specifically feminist psychological emphases, and contextualises the foregrounding of the productive possibilities of shame for feminist social justice projects. The introductory piece overviews the contributions to the special issue through a thematic lens
"Troubling" stories
Reflecting on narratives collected as part of the Apartheid Archive Project, a memory project of “ordinary” experiences of living under apartheid, this paper engages with stories that articulate white South Africans’ shame/ful relationships with Black female domestic workers. It is increasingly of concern that the dominant response to apartheid abuses are to consider them “in the past” in order to avoid discomforting reminders. Shame and its sile…
Activist performance and performative activism towards intersectional gender and sexual justice in contemporary South Africa
Democratic South Africa post-1994 boasts an impressive constitutional and legal commitment to human rights, including the enshrinement of sexual and gender rights. Notwithstanding, a growing body of work documents continued widespread homophobia, heterosexism and violence against gender and sexual non-conforming people that intersect with other inequalities. However, there is also a rich terrain of resistance to intersectional gender and sexual i…
Productive faces of shame
Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience. Elspeth Probyn's approach to shame departs significantly from these tropes. As interviewers, we share a common interest in feminist ethics and productive affects in teaching and scholarship. Hence, our specific interest in Probyn's Blush: Faces of Shame. Blush is an excellent example of viewing t…
Student accounts of space and safety at a South African university
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 presents data from a participatory photovoice study in which a group of students reflect on their experiences of feeling safe and unsafe at an urban-based historically disadvantaged university. Findings highlight the way in wh…
“Because They Are Me”
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 of certain identities and positionalities alongside the disavowal of others. Dress – clothes, accessories and body styling – is one of the key components through which, within specific social conditions, people perform these ident…
A politics of shame
Girls need to behave like girls you know
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 own health and that of others. Key to the programme are outcomes relating to power, power relations and gender. In this paper, we apply a critical gender lens to explore the ways in which the teaching of sexuality education engag…
Masculinity, sexuality and vulnerability in ‘working’ with young men in South African contexts
South Africa has seen a rapid increase in scholarship and programmatic interventions focusing on gender and sexuality, and more recently on boys, men and masculinities. In this paper, we argue that a deterministic discourse on men's sexuality and masculinity in general is inherent in many current understandings of adolescent male sexuality, which tend to assume that young women are vulnerable and powerless and young men are sexually powerful and …
Gendering disability and disabling gender
Discourses of normalcy are deeply imbricated \nin the construction of the social world and \norganise relations between persons, persons \nand the State, persons and institutions and \nintra-psychic relations. Conversely, discourses \nabout pathology and the abnormal underpin \nthe regulation and disciplining of subjectivities \nintersected with ideas about race, gender, \nsexuality, class, ethnicities, nationalisms, \nand other identity vectors
Resisting the binarism of victim and agent
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 has focused on how poverty, age and gender within specific cultural contexts shape sexual agency and provide a context for unequal, coercive and violent practices for young women. This paper takes stock of what we currently 'know…
North-South dialogues
Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North-South centres and \nmargins has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies \nand engagement with men and masculinities. This article draws on narratives \ngenerated by a group of researchers in South Africa and Finland who have been \nengaged in a transnational research project that included a strong focus on young men, \nmasculinities and gender and …
Care in context
"Care in context is a thought-provoking book that looks at gender inequalities in the context of care. Drawing in part from unique transnational perspectives and gripping interviews, this book focuses on key questions that intellectuals, policy makers and all of us who care and need care have to ask, such as: What is good care? Who should be involved in providing it? And how should care be arranged and organized so that that the interests of both…
Resisting the binarism of victim and agent
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 has focused on how poverty, age and gender within specific cultural contexts shape sexual agency and provide a context for unequal, coercive and violent practices for young women. This paper takes stock of what we currently 'know…
Talking South African Fathers
The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, female-headed households. Fathers are constructed as either absent or ‘bad’. Thus it has become important to explore more closely how male care-givers have been experienced by groups of men in South Africa. This article examines disco…
A feminist politics of shame
This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and specifically feminist psychological emphases, and contextualises the foregrounding of the productive possibilities of shame for feminist social justice projects. The introductory piece overviews the contributions to the special issue through a thematic lens
Gender, Power and Resistance to Change among Two Communities in the Western Cape, South Africa
This study investigates how women and men in the Western Cape, South Africa, construct their gender identities and roles. As part of the development of an HIV prevention intervention for men, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted. Several themes regarding the construction of gender were identified. First, participants reported that traditional gender relations of male dominance and female subservience were still in e…
Pathways to Gender Equitable Men
This article reflects on the findings of the International Men and Gender Equality survey through the lens of contemporary South African contexts of change. While huge strides have been made toward gender justice in South Africa since 1994, there are many indications, including high rates of gender-based violence, that inequalities on the basis of gender intersected with other forms of inequality persist. Further, some research illustrates a grow…
Who needs a father? South African men reflect on being fathered
The legacy of apartheid and continued social and economic change have meant that many South African men and women have grown up in families from which biological fathers are missing. In both popular and professional knowledge and practice this has been posed as inherently a problem particularly for boys who are assumed to lack a positive male role model. In drawing on qualitative interviews with a group of South African men in which they speak ab…
Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/Aids in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa
The links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS risk are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated how women and men in two black communities in the Western Cape, South Africa, constructed their gender identities and roles, how they understood gender-based violence, and what they believed about the links between gender relations and HIV risk. First we conducted 16 key informant interviews with m…
Racist sexualisation and sexualised racism in narratives on apartheid
The Social Construction of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in South African Communities
Since the medical link between sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS was established, there has been an increased focus on the spread of STIs in South Africa. The aim of this study was to provide an in-depth picture of the dynamics involved in sexuality and the spread of STIs and HIV/AIDS. The authors present the findings of a focus group study, which was a part of a larger, national project addressing the broad question of health-c…
Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship
This article thinks with oceans and swimming, in dialogue with decolonial feminist materialist approaches and other current novel methodologies which foreground embodiment and relational ontologies, in order to consider the conceptual potential of such diffractions for the project of alternative scholarly practices. We focus on swimming in the sea as one form of wild methodology and Slow scholarship that draws on hauntology to think about the pos…
Fraught tenderness
The Masculine Construct in Heterosex
Productive faces of shame
Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience. Elspeth Probyn's approach to shame departs significantly from these tropes. As interviewers, we share a common interest in feminist ethics and productive affects in teaching and scholarship. Hence, our specific interest in Probyn's Blush: Faces of Shame. Blush is an excellent example of viewing t…
Student accounts of space and safety at a South African university
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 presents data from a participatory photovoice study in which a group of students reflect on their experiences of feeling safe and unsafe at an urban-based historically disadvantaged university. Findings highlight the way in wh…
Gendering disability and disabling gender
Discourses of normalcy are deeply imbricated \nin the construction of the social world and \norganise relations between persons, persons \nand the State, persons and institutions and \nintra-psychic relations. Conversely, discourses \nabout pathology and the abnormal underpin \nthe regulation and disciplining of subjectivities \nintersected with ideas about race, gender, \nsexuality, class, ethnicities, nationalisms, \nand other identity vectors
North-South dialogues
Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North-South centres and \nmargins has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies \nand engagement with men and masculinities. This article draws on narratives \ngenerated by a group of researchers in South Africa and Finland who have been \nengaged in a transnational research project that included a strong focus on young men, \nmasculinities and gender and …
Taxi 'sugar daddies' and taxi queens
Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships might facilitate unsafe sexual practices and increased risks for both the men and the young women, often referred to as taxi queens, remains an important question in the light of the current challenges of HIV/AIDS in sub-Sah…
Women and Authorship in Post-Apartheid Psychology
This article addresses the issue of women's authorship in psychology. It reflects on the contributions of women authors to psychological knowledge production over the last 10 years through a quantitative assessment of authorship in the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP). Key variables utilised include ‘race’, gender, university (i.e., historically black universities versus historically white universities), sole versus collective authorshi…
Narrating Gender and Sex in and through Apartheid Divides
In this article I reflect on the way in which racist practices intersect with gender as this emerges in narratives on living through apartheid, from a group of academics in contemporary South Africa. A wide range of literature has explored the complex intersections of ‘race’, gender, class and other forms of difference and power inequality through the history of South Africa before, during and after apartheid. The continued intersection of gender…
Coercive sexual practices and gender-based violence on a university campus
When a 22-year-old University of the Western Cape (UWC) female student was stabbed to death by her boyfriend (another \nstudent) in her room in the university residence on 25 August 2008, the entire campus was left reeling. Bringing the stark reality \nof gender-based violence (GBV) so close to home, the tragedy was a powerful reminder of the limits of more than a decade \nof legislative change, concerted activism, education, consciousness-raisin…
Practices of Power and Abuse in Gay Male Relationships
This article constitutes a single case study of snapshots of the life of a young, gay isiXhosa-speaking man, and his narrative on relationships. The case study is a part of a broader study exploring gay male relationships with a particular focus on the dynamics of control, power, and abuse. The broader literature on gay relationships, both internationally and locally, highlights the pervasiveness of heteropatriarchal stereotypical constructions i…
Activist performance and performative activism towards intersectional gender and sexual justice in contemporary South Africa
Democratic South Africa post-1994 boasts an impressive constitutional and legal commitment to human rights, including the enshrinement of sexual and gender rights. Notwithstanding, a growing body of work documents continued widespread homophobia, heterosexism and violence against gender and sexual non-conforming people that intersect with other inequalities. However, there is also a rich terrain of resistance to intersectional gender and sexual i…
Girls need to behave like girls you know
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 own health and that of others. Key to the programme are outcomes relating to power, power relations and gender. In this paper, we apply a critical gender lens to explore the ways in which the teaching of sexuality education engag…
I. Teaching Gender in Psychology at a South African University
Gender courses and women’s studies departments have proliferated in South African tertiary institutions over the past decade (Bonnin, 1995). These developments tie in with changes in the constitution of the country as well as the ‘almost worldwide emergence of women’s studies as a field of research, teaching and study’ (Mama, 1996: 2). A focus on gender and the inclusion of such debates in the curriculum is relatively new in South African psychol…
Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy
Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one of the few ways in which we, as three academics from different higher education institutions, found respite in a practice of care for ourselves and others. Curious as to whether swimming and free writing could ma…
The Masculine Construct in Heterosex
I. Teaching Gender in Psychology at a South African University
Gender courses and women’s studies departments have proliferated in South African tertiary institutions over the past decade (Bonnin, 1995). These developments tie in with changes in the constitution of the country as well as the ‘almost worldwide emergence of women’s studies as a field of research, teaching and study’ (Mama, 1996: 2). A focus on gender and the inclusion of such debates in the curriculum is relatively new in South African psychol…
“So Women Have to Submit to That…” Discourses of Power and Violence in Student's Talk on Heterosexual Negotiation
Heterosexual sexuality (heterosex) has been criticised for its central role in the reproduction of gender inequality and violence against women. This paper explores the way in which students draw on discourses of power and violence in their discussion of heterosexual relationships. The paper is based on a larger discourse analytic study of 17 focus groups and a free-association exercise carried out with psychology students at the University of th…
Discourses on women's (hetero)sexuality and desire in a South African local context
Feminist analyses of gender power inequalities in the negotiation of heterosexual sexuality (heterosex) have exposed heterosexuality as a key site for the reproduction of patriarchy. Empirical studies have highlighted women's lack of negotiation and men's dominance in heterosex. This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring the negotiation of heterosex among young men and women students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. A…
The Social Construction of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in South African Communities
Since the medical link between sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS was established, there has been an increased focus on the spread of STIs in South Africa. The aim of this study was to provide an in-depth picture of the dynamics involved in sexuality and the spread of STIs and HIV/AIDS. The authors present the findings of a focus group study, which was a part of a larger, national project addressing the broad question of health-c…
Women and Authorship in Post-Apartheid Psychology
This article addresses the issue of women's authorship in psychology. It reflects on the contributions of women authors to psychological knowledge production over the last 10 years through a quantitative assessment of authorship in the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP). Key variables utilised include ‘race’, gender, university (i.e., historically black universities versus historically white universities), sole versus collective authorshi…
The evaluation of immediate behavioural outcomes of the syndromic case management approach for the treatment of patients with sexually transmitted infections at PHC centres in South Africa
This study aimed to determine the immediate behavioural outcomes of the WHO syndromic case management model for STIs in the public health sector in South Africa, on the levels of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, and behavioural practices (KABPs) concerning STIs. An outcomes evaluation was conducted using KABP methodology. Exit interviews were conducted with 126 STI and non-STI patients at 24 primary health care (PHC) centres in four provinces. B…
Masculinities, militarisation and unsafe sexual practices
While there is growing concern about, and focus on, the role of dominant constructions of masculinity and male sexuality, this remains a marginalised area of research in the broader terrain of HIV research and intervention. Men are known to dominate women's sexual lives as they dictate the terms of the relationship and negotiate, for example, whether or not a condom will be used. Yet the focus of South African research has been predominantly on w…
Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/Aids in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa
The links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS risk are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated how women and men in two black communities in the Western Cape, South Africa, constructed their gender identities and roles, how they understood gender-based violence, and what they believed about the links between gender relations and HIV risk. First we conducted 16 key informant interviews with m…
The (Hetero)Sexualization of the Military and the Militarization of (Hetero)Sex
The article is framed in the context of the challenge of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and recognizes that military men are particularly vulnerable to infection. This is argued on the basis of their specific contexts of mobility, isolation and being among communities where they have greater economic and political power, as well as in relation to their identities and sexualities as men, and how these are exaggerated by the institutional framework of th…
Gender attitudes, sexual power, HIV risk
The Gender Attitudes-Power-Risk (GAPR) model of HIV risk behavior was tested using survey data collected from among 309 men who were attending STI services in a primary health care clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. Results showed that negative attitudes towards women were significantly positively associated with a high level of HIV risk behavior, and that endorsement of traditional male roles was negatively associated with HIV risk behavior. End…
Gender, Power and Resistance to Change among Two Communities in the Western Cape, South Africa
This study investigates how women and men in the Western Cape, South Africa, construct their gender identities and roles. As part of the development of an HIV prevention intervention for men, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted. Several themes regarding the construction of gender were identified. First, participants reported that traditional gender relations of male dominance and female subservience were still in e…
Practices of Power and Abuse in Gay Male Relationships
This article constitutes a single case study of snapshots of the life of a young, gay isiXhosa-speaking man, and his narrative on relationships. The case study is a part of a broader study exploring gay male relationships with a particular focus on the dynamics of control, power, and abuse. The broader literature on gay relationships, both internationally and locally, highlights the pervasiveness of heteropatriarchal stereotypical constructions i…
Voices of African Traditional Healers
The healing paradigm implicit in many sub-Saharan African cultures is embedded in African cosmology, and thus the recognition of this is essential for understanding Traditional African Healing practices and implementing collaborative counselling practices. To this end, this article focuses on the cultural importance, or voice, of traditional healers in sub-Saharan Africa. The current article uses an ethnographic approach to analyse systematically…
Coercive sexual practices and gender-based violence on a university campus
When a 22-year-old University of the Western Cape (UWC) female student was stabbed to death by her boyfriend (another \nstudent) in her room in the university residence on 25 August 2008, the entire campus was left reeling. Bringing the stark reality \nof gender-based violence (GBV) so close to home, the tragedy was a powerful reminder of the limits of more than a decade \nof legislative change, concerted activism, education, consciousness-raisin…
Men in Africa
At a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor \nSandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author, \nspoke to the question ‘Can men be subjects of feminist \nthought?’ (1 March 2010, District Six Museum, Cape Town). In \nher talk, Harding called on men to elaborate critically on their \nsubjective experiences and practices of being boys and men – \nfrom childhood to adulthood, and through fatherhood to old age. \nShe arg…
We Do Not Cook, We Only Assist Them’
This article discusses how the gendering of activity by boys coincides with, contests or recreates constructions of hegemonic masculinity in the context of South Africa. The study used a qualitative methodology including a series of three focus groups with 14–16 year-old boys across six different schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. A discursive analysis in which particular attention was paid to how participants construct their masculinity …
South African teachers' responses to teenage pregnancy and teenage mothers in schools
South African law forbids excluding pregnant teenagers from school and permits young parents to continue with their schooling. However, the existence of progressive policy and law does not by itself ensure that pregnant teenagers and young parents remain in school or experience as little disruption to their studies as possible. Two of the factors influencing the experiences that pregnant girls and young parents have are the attitudes and practice…
Narrating Gender and Sex in and through Apartheid Divides
In this article I reflect on the way in which racist practices intersect with gender as this emerges in narratives on living through apartheid, from a group of academics in contemporary South Africa. A wide range of literature has explored the complex intersections of ‘race’, gender, class and other forms of difference and power inequality through the history of South Africa before, during and after apartheid. The continued intersection of gender…
Racist sexualisation and sexualised racism in narratives on apartheid
Aids fatigue and university students’ talk about HIV risk
Drawing on a qualitative study that included 20 focus group discussions with male and female students at an urban-based university in South Africa, this article reports on perceptions, attitudes and reported behaviour with respect to HIV and AIDS and safer sex in the campus setting, with an aim to better understand how young people are responding to the challenges of HIV and AIDS in contemporary South Africa. The findings demonstrate the gap betw…
Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study with a group of students at a South African university, drawing on narratives that speak to the dynamics of reportedly widespread transactional sex on campus. Since many of these relationships are inscr…
Deconstructing the ‘sugar daddy’
Since a recent Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) prevalence study highlighted the relationship between intergenerational sex and risk of HIV infection, a range of studies in southern Africa have documented the commonality of sexual relations between older men and young women. For the most part, these studies have focused on the material and status benefits for the young women, and on their vulnerability to HIV, violence and unwanted pregnanc…
Fraught tenderness
Talking South African Fathers
The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, female-headed households. Fathers are constructed as either absent or ‘bad’. Thus it has become important to explore more closely how male care-givers have been experienced by groups of men in South Africa. This article examines disco…
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