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Sex and Politics in South Africa

Author : Neville Wallace Hoad
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781770130159
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Politics in South Africa written by Neville Wallace Hoad and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells how South Africa came to lead the world in enshrining sexual equality in our Bill of Rights, which forms part of the Constitution. The achievement, which has been hailed as a model for the rest of the world, did not come about without a long struggle. This was spearheaded by gender activists and movements during the 1980s, whose campaigns on the one hand evoked hostility from the apartheid state and were also dismissed as an irrelevance by conservative factions within the liberation movement. Indeed, the end of apartheid did not automatically guarantee that sexual equality would be realised, and the book explains how in the end this was achieved. The volume draws upon the rich archive of the Gay and Lesbian association and incorporates fascinating first-hand documents from the time as well as essays by participants in the events and later commentators.

Sex in Transition

Author : Amanda Lock Swarr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438444087
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sex in Transition written by Amanda Lock Swarr and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies Sex in Transition explores the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality—a way to describe spaces between common conceptions of "man" and "woman"—is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew these categories altogether. This book is the first academic exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.

South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come

Author : Brenna M. Munro
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816677689
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come by : Brenna M. Munro

Download or read book South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come written by Brenna M. Munro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the story of how the politics of queer sexuality have played out in the struggle for multiracial democracy in South Africa

AIDS, Sex, and Culture

Author : Ida Susser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144435910X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis AIDS, Sex, and Culture by : Ida Susser

Download or read book AIDS, Sex, and Culture written by Ida Susser and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author's own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social conservatism in the US on AIDS prevention programs discussion of the experiences of women in areas ranging from Durban in KwaZulu Natal to rural settlements in Namibia and Botswana includes a chapter written by Sibongile Mkhize at the University of KwaZulu Natal who tells the story of her own family’s struggle with AIDS

The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa

Author : Henriette Gunkel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135147329
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa by : Henriette Gunkel

Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa written by Henriette Gunkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and intimacy and on the country more generally. While in 1996, South Africa became the first country in the world that explicitly incorporated lesbian and gay rights within a Bill of Rights, much of the country has continued to see homosexuality as un-African. Henriette Gunkel examines how colonialism and apartheid have historically shaped constructions of gender and sexuality and how these concepts have not only been re-introduced and shaped by understandings of homosexuality as un-African but also by the post-apartheid constitution and continued discourse within the nation.

Sexual Diversity in Africa

Author : S.N. Nyeck
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589759
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Sexual Diversity in Africa by : S.N. Nyeck

Download or read book Sexual Diversity in Africa written by S.N. Nyeck and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars? In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as well as with contentious issues relating to methodology, epistemology, ethics, and pedagogy. They present a tapestry of issues that testify to the complex nature of sexuality, sexual practices, and gender performance in Africa. Essays examine topics such as the well-established same-sex networks in Accra and Bamako, African "traditions" defined by European observers, and the bizarre mix of faith, pharmaceuticals, and pseudo-science used to "cure" homosexual men. Their evidence also demonstrates the indefensibility of over-simplified constructions of homosexuality versus heterosexuality, modern versus traditional, Africa versus the West, and progress from the African closet towards Western models of out politics, all of which have tainted research on same-sex practices and scientific studies of HIV/AIDS. Asserting that the study of sexuality is intellectually and politically sustainable in Africa, Sexual Diversity in Africa contributes to the theorization of sexualities by presenting a more sensitive and knowledgeable study of African experiences and perspectives. Contributors include Olajide Akanji, Christophe Broqua, Cheryl Cooky, Serena Owusua Dankwa, Shari L. Dworkin, Marc Epprecht, Melissa Hackman, Notisha Massaquoi, Crystal Munthree, Kathleen O’Mara, Stella Nyanzi, S.N.Nyeck, Vasu Reddy, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Lisa Wiebesiek.

Sexual Diversity in Africa

Author : S.N. Nyeck
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589759
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa

Author : Ashley Currier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427898
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa written by Ashley Currier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

The Sexual History of the Global South

Author : Saskia Wieringa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780324049
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Sexual History of the Global South written by Saskia Wieringa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states. Covering issues of heteronormativity, post-colonial amnesia regarding non-normative sexualities, women's sexual agency, the policing of the boundaries between the public and the private realm, sexual citizenship, the connections between LGBTQ activism and processes of state formation, and the emergence of sexuality studies in the global South, this collection is of great geographical, historical, and topical significance.

Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa

Author : Deevia Bhana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315282992
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa by : Deevia Bhana

Download or read book Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa written by Deevia Bhana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and romance within the wider social and cultural context underwritten by the histories of apartheid, chronic unemployment, poverty, and the endless struggle to survive. By drawing on focus group discussions with African teenage men and women, the book addresses teenage Africans as active agents, providing a more nuanced picture of their desires and their dilemmas through which sexuality and love are experienced. The chapters in the book conceptualise desiring love, material love, pure love, forced love and fearing love. It argues that love is intrinsically linked to cultural practices and material realities which mold particular formations of teenage masculinities and femininities. This book will be of interest to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sociology, HIV, health and gender studies, development and postcolonial studies and African studies.

Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa

Author : Gisela G. Geisler
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171065155
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa written by Gisela G. Geisler and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at womens stuggle in Southern Africa where the last ten years have seen the most pervasive success stories on the African continent.Tracing the history of womens involvement in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, the book analyses post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by womens movements to gain a foothold in politics.

Ringing Up the Changes

Author : Colleen Lowe Morna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ringing Up the Changes written by Colleen Lowe Morna and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces

Author : Deevia Bhana
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030699889
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces by : Deevia Bhana

Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces written by Deevia Bhana and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised systems of power are produced in educational settings that are framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact with each other. All these nuanced features of gender and sexuality are vital if we are to understand inequalities and violence, and fundamental to our three-ply yarn approach in this book. Focusing on the South African context, but with international relevance, the authors adopt the metaphor of the three-ply yarn (Jordan-Young, 2010): these being the cross-cutting themes of gender, sexuality and violence. Subsequently, the book illustrates the intimate ties that bind gender and sexuality with the social and cultural dimensions of violence, as experienced in educational settings.

The ANC Women's League

Author : Shireen Hassim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781431408832
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The ANC Women's League written by Shireen Hassim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First formed in the early 20th century, the ANC Women's League grew from a modest grouping of women into an organisation occupying a leading position in the women's movement in South Africa....But, as this deeply insightful book shows, the history of the league is a more complicated affair: it was neither the only women's organisation in the political field nor was it an easy ally for South African feminism." -- Back cover.

Hungochani

Author : Marc Epprecht
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773527515
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Hungochani written by Marc Epprecht and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.

Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa

Author : Shireen Hassim
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299213838
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa written by Shireen Hassim and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women’s movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women’s political organizations both shaped and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. In reading the last twenty-five years of South African history through a feminist framework, Hassim offers fresh insights into the interactions between civil society, political parties, and the state. Hassim boldly confronts sensitive issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists’ engagement with the African National Congress (ANC) and other democratic movements, and black-white relations within women’s organizations. She offers a historically informed discussion of the challenges facing feminist activists during a time of nationalist struggle and democratization. Winner, Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, American Political Science Association “An exceptional study, based on extensive research. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “A rich history of women’s organizations in South African . . . . [Hassim] had observed at first hand, and often participated in, much of what she described. She had access to the informants and private archives that so enliven the narrative and enrich the analysis. She provides a finely balanced assessment.”—Gretchen Bauer, African Studies Review

The ANC Women’s League

Author : Shireen Hassim
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144526X
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The ANC Women’s League written by Shireen Hassim and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women’s League has grown into a leading organization in the women’s movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation’s century-long transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy that espouses gender equality as a core constitutional value. It has, indeed, always regarded itself as the women’s movement, frequently asserting its primacy as a vanguard organization and as the only legitimate voice of the women of South Africa. But, as this deeply insightful book shows, the history of the league is a more complicated affair — it was neither the only women’s organization in the political field nor an easy ally for South African feminism.