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Youth Sexualities Programmes and Gendered Norms
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Professor Catriona Macleod
Dr Ulandi du Plessis
Dr Tracey Feltham-King
Dr Pedro Pinto
Yanela Ndabula
Sarah-Ann Moore
Nangamso Myoli
Sithembele Xhegwana
Kim Barker
Kudzanayi Mvududu
Yolisa Bomela
Yamini Kalyanaraman
Cassandra Robertson
Megaera Jones
Agnes Sanyangore
Nicola Graham
Angie Vorster
Sibonginkosi Mpofu
Lebogang Seutlwadi
Megan Reuvers
Bulelwa Faya
Donica Walton
Laurah Mogonong
Chanelle Descroizilles
Thobile Mthethwa
Research Associates and Visiting Fellows
Dr Malvern Chiweshe
Dr Tracy Morison
Dr Merran Toerien
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Youth Sexuality Programmes and Gendered Norms
To investigate how Life Orientation and other sexuality programmes challenge and/or reproduce normative gender narratives, practices and power relations within which inequitable and coerced sex and the accompanying problems of unsupportable pregnancies and the transmission of HIV and other STIs take place; to explore how a critical gender lens that facilitates gender transformation and gender justice could be incorporated into sexuality programmes.
Nature of research
Multi-institutional (RU, University of the Western Cape, Stellenbosh University, Leiden University, Royal Tropical Institute), multi-disciplinary project which started in 2011. The project has been funded by SANPAD and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Continued work will be funded by the SARCHI chair.
Data will be collected through class-room observations, interviews with teachers and learners, focus group discussions with learners, and journals kept by learners; analysis will be performed using a combination of narrative and discourse analysis.
Saville Young, L., Moodley, D., & Macleod, C.I. (2019). Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom: An educator's constructions of and investments in sexuality education. Sex Education, 19(4), 486–500. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1511974
Moodley, D. (2018). The politics of female adolescent sexuality in music: A social semiotic analysis of Liz Phair's "Glory." Social Semiotics, 0(0), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2018.1541119
Jearey-Graham, N., & Macleod, C. I. (2017). Gender, dialogue and discursive psychology: A pilot sexuality intervention with South African High-School learners. Sex Education, 17(5), 555–570. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2017.1320983
Macleod, C. I., & Jearey-Graham, N. (2016). "Peer Pressure" and "Peer Normalization": Discursive resources that justify gendered youth sexualities. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 13(3), 230–240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-015-0207-8
Ngabaza, S., Shefer, T., & Macleod, C.I. (2016). "Girls need to behave like girls you know": the complexities of applying a gender justice goal within sexuality education in South African schools. Reproductive Health Matters, 24(48), 71–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhm.2016.11.007
Shefer, T., Kruger, L., Macleod, C., Baxen, J., & Vincent, L. (2015). '… a huge monster that should be feared and not done ': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa. African Safety Promotion Journal, 13(1), 71–87.https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC178541
Shefer, T., & Macleod, C. (2015). Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa : gendered norms, justice and transformation. Perspectives in Education, 33(2), 1–10. Retrieved fromhttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC171670
Macleod, C.I. (2017). 'Adolescent' Sexual and Reproductive Health: Controversies, Rights, and Justice. In A. L. Cherry, V. Baltag, & M. E. Dillon (Eds.), International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development: The Public Health Response (pp. 169–181). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40743-2_9
Moore, S-A. (2018). Policy responses to the sexual and reproductive health of queer youth in the Global South: A systematic review. (MA thesis, Rhodes University).
Jearey-Graham, N. (2016). Dialogues of sexualities: An action research project. (MA thesis, Rhodes University).
Moodley, D. D. (2015). Nascent Desires: Gendered Sexualities in Life Orientation Sexuality Education Programmes and Popular Music. (PhD thesis, Rhodes University).
Jeary-Graham, N. (2014). Resisting responsibilisation: A narrative-discursive analysis of young peoples' talk about high school sexualities and school sexuality education. (MA thesis, Rhodes University).
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