Vasu Reddy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3800291 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vasu Reddy |
| PRENOMES | Vasu |
| SOBRENOME | Reddy |
| ASSINATURA | REDDY V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6004-2320 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Thinking Through Food in South Africa
When we sit at individual or communal tables, we consider each other and our senses before taking a single bite. We think about what brought us to the table, who we are eating with, what meal will be served and possibly even where the food is from. South Africa is home to diverse cultures, histories, food heritages, culinary landscapes, food-growing and food-buying environments that collectively spice the food eaten and enjoyed by individuals and…
When the Rainbow is Bittersweet
South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa that no longer criminalises same-sex sexual activity, and the only one to recognise same-sex marriage under the legal system. Yet, at the same time, several groups in the country practice a conservatism that discourages people from being themselves, be it in professing their gender or their sexuality. This article explores the trials and tribulations of making a documentary film with a minority p…
Splice
This article focuses on the uses of spice as a method of healing in selected dishes within a Durban Indian foodscape. Beyond its culinary potential (taste, flavour, seasoning), the article motivates spice as having particular utilities and meanings that have bearing upon social, cultural and gender issues pertinent to food preparation as well as consumption which ultimately influences health and well-being. Methodologically it engages conceptual …
Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene
The involvement matrix as a framework for involving youth with severe communication disabilities in developing health education materials
INTRODUCTION: Involving youth with severe communication disabilities in health research is foregrounded in a perspective of rights and participation. Researchers aligned with a participatory and inclusive research agenda recommend that involving youth in health research should be a deliberate and well-planned process. However, limited examples exist of how researchers can facilitate the involvement of youth with severe communication disabilities …
The social and sexual lives of Black sexual minority men 30 years of age and older in South Africa
Inferences drawn from these findings provide direction on how to improve middle-aged SMM's representation in research, such as recruiting a higher proportion of older and middle-aged SMM to serve as seed participants and building stronger community partnerships to disseminate study findings to settings where data collection is conducted
Information, Motivation and Behavioral Skills as Mediators Between Sexual Minority Stigma and Condomless anal Sex Among Black South African Men Who have Sex with Men
From indoctrination to education
African same-sex sexualities and gender diversity
This article introduces the concept of African same-sex sexualities and gender diversity which refers to variation pertinent to gender expressions and identities, sexual expression and sexual orientation. The article describes the emerging and evolving African scholarly production evident in the last two decades and explains key underlying themes that bring together this special issue
HIV and sexually transmitted infection knowledge among women who have sex with women in four Southern African countries
Women who have sex with women in Southern Africa, where HIV prevalence is high, are often presumed to have minimal risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV despite research documenting female-to-female transmission. This study examined the demographic and social factors contributing to female-to-female STI/HIV transmission knowledge among Southern African women who have sex with women using an integrated model of health literacy. In…
Gendered and feminist inequalities
This article provides a brief review and mapping of the critical field of inequality studies in both general and gender-feminist-specific terms. The article approaches the topic by interrogating the meanings associated with inequalities and then turns to the gendered and feminist scholarship to assess the relevance of an evolving literature in providing a lens, both conceptual and empirical, within which African theorisations also accrue. The arg…
Thoughts from the epi(Centre)
This interview engages Mary Crewe, founding Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS, now known as the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, at the University of Pretoria, by tapping into her archive, representing a series of active commitments in community and university sites that address a life’s work that is still under construction. Vasu Reddy engages Crewe on her shaping experiences with regard to family, gender arrangements, AIDS, a…
Sexual violence experiences among black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women in South African townships
This study examined experiences with sexual violence among black African gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women in townships surrounding Pretoria, South Africa. Of 81 gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women interviewed, 17 reported to have experienced sexual violence perpetrated by other men. Qualitative analysis of interviews revealed the social and relational contexts of these e…
Southern African Lesbian and Bisexual Women Responses to Symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexuality Disclosure Among Black South African MSM and Responses by Family
Although South Africa protects sexual orientation in its Constitution, homosexuality is socioculturally contested and unaccepted. This lack of acceptance may impact the coming-out process of men who have sex with men (MSM). This study explored diverse factors that influenced whether Black South African MSM disclosed their sexual practices and identities to their families, how their families responded, and how family responses affected them. In-de…
Queer in Africa
Queer in Africa
African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to provide innovative insights about contentious disagreements over the…
Autism and Triadic Play
Children's relations to objects are often seen as operating in a physical, asocial realm distinct from the sociocultural realm of other people. The most influential theories of autism exemplify this assumption, emphasizing problems in relating to other people alongside relatively intact dealings with objects. This article challenges the notion of a rigid social-material divide. It examines evidence of widespread disruption in the object use of ch…
South African Men Who Have Sex With Both Men and Women and How They Differ From Men Who Have Sex With Men Exclusively
The label "men who have sex with men" (MSM) is used to categorize a diverse population exclusively on the basis of its sexual behavior. Understanding the diversity that this label comprises is critical for the development of health interventions that effectively reach the various populations subsumed under this label. In this cross-sectional study of South African MSM (N = 480) recruited through respondent-driven sampling (RDS), we explored diffe…
Gender Expression and Mental Health in Black South African Men Who Have Sex with Men
Breakage is the norm
This paper explores condom use and lubrication practices among Black men who have sex with men in South African townships. Results are from 81 in-depth individual interviews conducted among a purposive sample from four townships surrounding Pretoria as part of a larger qualitative study. Awareness that condoms should be used to have safer anal sex was ubiquitous. Fewer men reported that lubricants should be used to facilitate anal intercourse. Pa…
Karel Schoeman (1939-2017) se dood
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Black South African Men Who Have Sex With Men
Masculine foodways in two South African cookbooks
Roland Barthes explained that “food serves as a sign not only for themes, but also for situations; and this, all told, means a way of life that is emphasized, much more than expressed, by it” (1982:171-172). Food has both social and cultural functions, conveying various and nuanced possibilities for readings of texts. This perspective piece builds on the foodways concept to briefly address eating, including what we consume, how we acquire it, who…
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…
Eurocentrism in the social sciences
Ethnocentrism, of which Eurocentrism is a special case, refers to ’the tendency to view one’s own ethnic group and its social standards as the basis for evaluative judgements concerning the practices of others-with the implication that one views one’s own standards as superior’. ’ I On the face of it, no reasonable person would see such an academic approach as justifiable. Yet European ideas and concepts * have had such an extraordinary effect in…
Gender Nonconformity, Discrimination, and Mental Health Among Black South African Men Who Have Sex with Men
Sexuality Disclosure Among Black South African MSM and Responses by Family
Although South Africa protects sexual orientation in its Constitution, homosexuality is socioculturally contested and unaccepted. This lack of acceptance may impact the coming-out process of men who have sex with men (MSM). This study explored diverse factors that influenced whether Black South African MSM disclosed their sexual practices and identities to their families, how their families responded, and how family responses affected them. In-de…
Knowledge production, critique and peer review in feminist publishing
We consider how Agenda, a feminist journal located in the Global South, and Africa \nspecifically, mediates and balances the demands of peer-reviewed and peer-sanctioned \nknowledge production with the requisite gender, race and space/place equality in the context \nof mechanisms that often privilege particular ways of knowing. The article addresses the \nfollowing questions: What forces inhibit and marginalise women’s voices generally, and black…
Social justice for the poor
Apartheid South Africa created a society of deep-seated inequalities divided along race, class, and gender lines. The promotion of socioeconomic rights and redistributive justice is thus an important element in the country’s on-going transformation. This article analyzes the framing of stories on socioeconomic rights by three South African national newspapers. Using a combination of framing analysis and critical political economy insights, we sho…
African positionings’
Researchers such as Hoad (2007), Ndashe (2010), Swarr (2012) and Matebeni (2014) have raised critical questions about the discursive and material positions through which ‘South Africa’, as a nation, negotiates a continental context of legal, economic, and social violences against diversely identified lesbian, gay, and transgendered people. This article seeks a critical exploration of some of these debates and positionings, in order to deepen conv…
Sexuality in Africa
(2004). Sexuality in Africa: some trends, transgressions and tirades. Agenda: Vol. 18, Sexuality in Africa, pp. 3-11
Sexual violence experiences among black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women in South African townships
This study examined experiences with sexual violence among black African gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women in townships surrounding Pretoria, South Africa. Of 81 gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women interviewed, 17 reported to have experienced sexual violence perpetrated by other men. Qualitative analysis of interviews revealed the social and relational contexts of these e…
Negotiating Gay Masculinities
Thinking Through Food in South Africa
When we sit at individual or communal tables, we consider each other and our senses before taking a single bite. We think about what brought us to the table, who we are eating with, what meal will be served and possibly even where the food is from. South Africa is home to diverse cultures, histories, food heritages, culinary landscapes, food-growing and food-buying environments that collectively spice the food eaten and enjoyed by individuals and…
When the Rainbow is Bittersweet
South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa that no longer criminalises same-sex sexual activity, and the only one to recognise same-sex marriage under the legal system. Yet, at the same time, several groups in the country practice a conservatism that discourages people from being themselves, be it in professing their gender or their sexuality. This article explores the trials and tribulations of making a documentary film with a minority p…
Splice
This article focuses on the uses of spice as a method of healing in selected dishes within a Durban Indian foodscape. Beyond its culinary potential (taste, flavour, seasoning), the article motivates spice as having particular utilities and meanings that have bearing upon social, cultural and gender issues pertinent to food preparation as well as consumption which ultimately influences health and well-being. Methodologically it engages conceptual …
Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene
Gender Expression and Mental Health in Black South African Men Who Have Sex with Men
Masculine foodways in two South African cookbooks
Roland Barthes explained that “food serves as a sign not only for themes, but also for situations; and this, all told, means a way of life that is emphasized, much more than expressed, by it” (1982:171-172). Food has both social and cultural functions, conveying various and nuanced possibilities for readings of texts. This perspective piece builds on the foodways concept to briefly address eating, including what we consume, how we acquire it, who…
This Will Not Enter Me”
Gender and poverty reduction in its African Feminist practice
This essay introduces this special issue on Gender and Poverty Reduction by offering a brief perspective on the meanings of poverty in its relational sense. The essay frames the emerging studies featured in the issue that build on current work across an interdisciplinary field, highlighting conceptualisations of poverty, and raising questions and concerns for future work. As a set, the various contributions integrate both quantitative and qualita…
Eurocentrism in the social sciences
Ethnocentrism, of which Eurocentrism is a special case, refers to ’the tendency to view one’s own ethnic group and its social standards as the basis for evaluative judgements concerning the practices of others-with the implication that one views one’s own standards as superior’. ’ I On the face of it, no reasonable person would see such an academic approach as justifiable. Yet European ideas and concepts * have had such an extraordinary effect in…
Oral testimony into text
As an introductory reading which addresses the notion of testimonial narrative, this essay offers a critique of Bozzoli's Women of Phokeng (1991). A central issue highlighted is Bozzoli's view that the testimonial text presents hidden forms of “consciousness”. However, it will be shown that “consciousness” is not something textualized when testimony is given, but is constantly developing in terms of its articulation. Key issues related to testimo…
Negotiating Gay Masculinities
Performative identities
This essay focuses on identity categories as instruments of regulatory regimes, whether as normalising categories of oppressive structures or as rallying points for a liberatory contestation of that very oppression, with reference to two texts by Canadian playwright, Colleen Craig. Crossing the Line (1989) and Apart (1995) are considered in terms of feminist theatre in the context of South African dramatic literature. A close analysis in relation…
Sexuality in Africa
(2004). Sexuality in Africa: some trends, transgressions and tirades. Agenda: Vol. 18, Sexuality in Africa, pp. 3-11
Performative Queer Identities
This article critically examines the interface of gender, sex and identity within the context of bathroom facilities in a South African gay club. The public features and behaviors are contrasted with the bathrooms' private and abstract zones in terms of sexualized spaces and activities. The club's bathrooms function as spatial and physical discourses in which gender stability - with reference to masculine or feminine bodily inscriptions - is ques…
Ronald Hayward Louw (27 December 1957-26 June 2005)
Researching the Pedagogies of Sexualities in South African Higher Education
The article explores the approaches taken by South African institutions of higher education to the teaching of sexualities and gender. In a national context in which issues of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, legal reforms around reproductive and sexual rights, and critical discussions around the meanings of culture and sexuality abound, one might expect that tertiary education would introduce young men and wom…
Gender and poverty reduction in its African Feminist practice
This essay introduces this special issue on Gender and Poverty Reduction by offering a brief perspective on the meanings of poverty in its relational sense. The essay frames the emerging studies featured in the issue that build on current work across an interdisciplinary field, highlighting conceptualisations of poverty, and raising questions and concerns for future work. As a set, the various contributions integrate both quantitative and qualita…
Rural women, HIV and human rights abuses In South Africa
A theme that reflects rural women's experiences is appropriately captured in an Amnesty International (Al) report titled “I am at the lowest end of all”: Rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa (2008). The study reported in the publication, undertaken in two provinces, namely Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, examines patterns of human rights abuses of women who are exposed to the risk of or are already living with HIV in…
The Country We Want to Live In
Despite constitutional protections founded on the principles of equality, human dignity and freedom, violence based on gender and sexual orientation is rampant in South Africa. Taking stock of the socio-political climate in the country, the authors of The Country We Want to Live In argue for empathy, inclusivity, citizenship, belonging, and social justice—and, most importantly, conclude with specific strategies and clear policy recommendations fo…
Men who have sex with men
Communicating HIV Status in Sexual Interactions
Sexual Partnership Types as Determinant of HIV Risk in South African MSM
Matters of Age
This introductory essay to this special issue of Agenda draws together a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary literature on ageing, intergenerationality and gender, and locates the significance of writing from Africa within this context. The first half of the essay provides a critical and comprehensive review of available literature in the field, highlighting the significance of research and writing on the ways in which gender mediates ageing and int…
A quilted life
I thought we are safe”
HIV-prevention and service programmes have long either ignored or overlooked lesbians. The experiences of lesbians with HIV have similarly been unrecognised and unreported. This erasure has contributed to the invisibility of lesbians in relation to HIV and related health risks. This community participatory study, based on in-depth interviews with 24 self-identifying African lesbians living with HIV in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, focuses o…
African same-sex sexualities and gender-diversity
We thank the organisations that contributed to the realisation of the conference on 'Same-sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity', including AMSHeR; Behind the Mask; GALCK; Gender DynamiX; the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York; Hivos; the Human Sciences Research Council; Humure; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; the UNDP and GALA. Hivos was the main sponsor of the conference. Co-sponsors were the Open…
HIV Testing Practices of South African Township MSM in the Era of Expanded Access to ART
Age and sexual risk among Black men who have sex with men in South Africa
The results of research linking age and sexual risk among men who have sex with men have been inconsistent. This study assessed the relationship between age and sexual risk among 193 Black men who have sex with men in Pretoria. Older men who have sex with men reported engaging in more frequent unprotected insertive anal intercourse. We examined whether components of Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model mediated this relationship. Result…
Gender Expression and Risk of HIV Infection Among Black South African Men Who Have Sex with Men
They think that gays have money’
Transactional sex has not been studied much among men who have sex with men in Africa. Consequently, little is understood about attitudes towards the practice, the circumstances that give rise to it or how transactional sex relationships are managed. We conducted in-depth interviews with 81 Black men aged 20-44 from four low-resourced townships in Tshwane, South Africa. We found that transactional sex was a widely used strategy for initiating and…
African positionings’
Researchers such as Hoad (2007), Ndashe (2010), Swarr (2012) and Matebeni (2014) have raised critical questions about the discursive and material positions through which ‘South Africa’, as a nation, negotiates a continental context of legal, economic, and social violences against diversely identified lesbian, gay, and transgendered people. This article seeks a critical exploration of some of these debates and positionings, in order to deepen conv…
Knowledge production, critique and peer review in feminist publishing
We consider how Agenda, a feminist journal located in the Global South, and Africa \nspecifically, mediates and balances the demands of peer-reviewed and peer-sanctioned \nknowledge production with the requisite gender, race and space/place equality in the context \nof mechanisms that often privilege particular ways of knowing. The article addresses the \nfollowing questions: What forces inhibit and marginalise women’s voices generally, and black…
This Will Not Enter Me”
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