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‘I could have done everything and why not?’: young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ... -
Gendering the foundation: teaching sexuality amid sexual danger and gender inequalities
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)How might Life Skills be conceptualised in the Foundation Phase of schooling when a tradition of feminist literature has revealed the regulation, denial and the silencing of both gender and sexuality in early childhood? ... -
The politics of pleasure in sexuality education: pleasure bound
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Abstract not available -
Books or and Babies: pregnancy and young parents in schools: book review
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Abstract not available -
‘And I have been told that there is nothing fun about having sex while you are still in high school’: dominant discourses on women’s sexual practices and desires in Life Orientation programmes at school
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Young women’s sexuality is a contested terrain in multiple ways in contemporary South Africa. A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based violence illustrates how young women find it challenging to ... -
Multiple femininities in a'single sex'school: re-orienting Life Orientation to learner lifeworlds
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa faces many pedagogical challenges, not least among which is that it is sometimes perceived as irrelevant to learners’ real interests and concerns. Learners report that ... -
Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa: gendered norms, justice and transformation
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A discourse of disconnect: young people from the Eastern Cape talk about the failure of adult communications to provide habitable sexual subject positions
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Face-to-face adult communication with young people about sexuality is, for the most part, assigned to two main groups of people: educators tasked with teaching schoolbased sexuality education that is provided as part of ... -
Sexual socialisation in Life Orientation manuals versus popular music: responsibilisation versus pleasure, tension and complexity
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)This paper compares two forms of sexual socialisation to which learners are exposed: the sexuality education components of the Life Orientation (LO) manuals and the lyrical content and videos of popular songs. We performed ...