Zimbabwean teenagers learning sexuality and negotiating abstinence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19516310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vimbai Sharon Matswetu (0000-0002-2109-1883, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author), D Bhana (0000-0002-8504-041X, University of KwaZulu-Natal) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 751-764 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sex Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-1811 • E-ISSN: 1472-0825 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14681811.2023.2182280 |
| OpenAlex | W4361225308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
To address teenage learners’ risk of HIV, STIs and pregnancy, good quality school-based sexuality education is of great importance. In this paper we address Zimbabwean young people’s construction of sex and sexuality education. We draw from semi-structured individual interviews conducted with forty-seven teenage boys and girls aged between 15 and 19 years in two rural schools in Zimbabwe. The study’s findings suggest that teenagers make sense of sex and sexuality education within dominant discursive frameworks that stress the importance of sexual innocence and abstinence, with the sexuality of teenage girls receiving special surveillance. However, the learners in our study also occupied positions which suggested young people’s sexual agency beyond innocence. In the light of these contradictions, teenagers in Zimbabwe are caught up in producing both sexual innocence and sexual agency, making abstinence only education irrelevant to their day to day lives. Implications for future forms of sexuality education and teenagers’ sexual agency in rural Zimbabwean schooling are suggested
Abstinence · Developmental psychology · Family planning · Human sexuality · Innocence · Population · Psychiatry · Sex education · Sexual abstinence · Sexuality education · Social science · Sociology · Teenage pregnancy · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Demography · Gender Studies · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |