Sex Sexuality And Sexual Health In Southern Africa

Author : Deevia Bhana,Mary Crewe,Peter Aggleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000613728

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Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa by Deevia Bhana,Mary Crewe,Peter Aggleton Pdf

This book—Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa—is structured around four major themes: gender and sexuality diversity; love, pleasure and respect; gender, sexual violence and health; and sexuality, gender and sexual justice. Chapters in this book analyse sexuality in relation to recent developments in the Southern African region and what this might mean for contemporary theory, policy and practice. Sex, sexuality and sexual health are often viewed through a narrow biomedical lens, ignoring the fact that they are profoundly social and historical in character. The contributors in this book bring to light the entanglements of sexuality with respect, recognition, rights and mutual respectful pleasure. Authors draw attention to partnerships, allyships and feminist, queer and trans coalitions in the pursuit of sexual health and justice in the region. The book will be of interest to final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and activists as well as those working in Women and Gender Studies, Critical Sexuality Studies, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Development Studies, Public Health, Psychology, Education, Sociology and Anthropology.

Author : Xanthe Hunt,Stine Hellum Braathen,Mussa Chiwaula,Mark T. Carew,Poul Rohleder,Leslie Swartz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030555672

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Physical Disability and Sexuality by Xanthe Hunt,Stine Hellum Braathen,Mussa Chiwaula,Mark T. Carew,Poul Rohleder,Leslie Swartz Pdf

This open access edited volume explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted by the editors, and first-person narratives from people with physical disabilities in the country. Sexuality has long been a site of oppression and discrimination for people with disabilities based on myths and misconceptions, and this book explores how these play out for people with physical disabilities in the South African setting. One myth with which the book is centrally concerned, is that people with disabilities are unable to have sex, or are seen as lacking sexuality by society at large. Societal understandings of masculinity, femininity, bodies and attractiveness, often lead people with physical disabilities to be seen as being undesirable romantic or sexual partners. The contributions in this volume explore how these prevailing social conditions impact on the access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, involvement in romantic relationships, childbearing, and sexual citizenship as a whole, of people with physical disabilities in the Western Cape of the country. The authors' research, and first person contributions by people with physical disabilities themselves, suggest that education and public health policy must change, if the sexual and reproductive health rights and full inclusion of people with disabilities are to be achieved.

Author : Ebenezer Durojaye,Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi,Charles Ngwena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000401349

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Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa by Ebenezer Durojaye,Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi,Charles Ngwena Pdf

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation or identity. Covering topics such as abortion, gender identity, adolescent sexuality and homosexuality, the chapters in this book discuss the impact of culture, morality and social beliefs on the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights across the continent, particularly in relation to vulnerable and marginalized groups. The book also explores the role of litigation, national human rights institutions and regional human rights bodies in advancing the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region. Throughout, the contributions highlight the relevance of a rights-based framework in addressing topical and contentious issues on sexual and reproductive health and rights within Sub-Saharan Africa. This book will be of interest to researchers of sexuality, civil rights and health in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003175049, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Barbara Ann Barrett,Christian Groes-Green
Publisher : Christian Groes-Green
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789970251308

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Studying Intimate Matters by Barbara Ann Barrett,Christian Groes-Green Pdf

Introduction: Intimate studies and ethnographic sensitivity / Christian Groes-Green, Barbara Ann Barrett -- Running against the wind: studying reproductive norms and behaviour in Islamic Northern Nigeria / Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Caroline Kabiru & Alex C. Ezeh -- How to avoid gender bias in gender-focused health research: methodological reflections and policy suggestions / Doris Muhwezi Kakuru -- Intimate ethnography: trust-building, transgression and sexual cultures among Mocambican youth / Christian Groes-Green -- Sex tourism on Kenya's coast: methodological challenges and options / Rose Kisia-Omondi -- Let's talk about sex: comparing notes from qualitative research on men, relationships and sex in South Africa and Rwanda / Bjarke Oxlund -- Intimate matters as a taboo or a burning issue: experiences from qualitative data collection in urban Uganda and Tanzania / Margrethe Silberschmidt -- Researching teenage pregnancy in a post-apartheid South African township / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi -- Times and spaces for women's intimate 'talks': reproductive health matters in Mankunka and Kabuyu, Southern Zambia / Victoria Phiri -- Dilemmas of justification in the qualitative study of intimate matters: examples from Namibia / Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl -- Research ethics and dilemmas of qualitative research: a study among secondary-school students in Rakai District, Uganda / Aloysius Lwanga Bukenya.

Author : Deevia Bhana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315282992

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Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa by Deevia Bhana Pdf

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.

Author : Knut-Inge Klepp,Alan J. Flisher,Sylvia F. Kaaya
Publisher : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015077637026

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Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa by Knut-Inge Klepp,Alan J. Flisher,Sylvia F. Kaaya Pdf

In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.

Author : Barbara Ann Barrett,Christian Groes-Green
Publisher : Christian Groes-Green
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Families
ISBN : 9970251309

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Studying Intimate Matters by Barbara Ann Barrett,Christian Groes-Green Pdf

Author : Roger Ingham,Peter Aggleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134188680

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Promoting Young People's Sexual Health by Roger Ingham,Peter Aggleton Pdf

Valuable contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people are presented in this book, with a focus on developing country contexts. Key discussions on issues relating to young people and their sexual activities are brought together in one volume, exploring how these issues are affected by the wider contexts in which they live. The interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the practical and ideological barriers that inhibit progress in the development of educational and service level improvement of young people’s sexual health as well as presenting examples of efforts made to overcome such difficulties. Promoting Young People's Sexual Health looks to the future, proposing ways forward in terms of policy and legislative changes necessary for long term improvements in young people’s sexual health.

Author : Rachel Spronk,Thomas Hendriks
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780253047625

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Readings in Sexualities from Africa by Rachel Spronk,Thomas Hendriks Pdf

Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent. They present a nuanced and comprehensive overview of the field of sex and sexuality in Africa to serve as a guide though the quickly expanding literature. This collection offers a set of texts that use sexuality as a prism for studying how communities coalesce against the canvas of larger political and economic contexts and how personal lives evolve therein. Scholars working in Africa, the U.S., and Europe reflect on issues of representation, health and bio-politics, same-sex relationships and identity, transactional economies of sex, religion and tradition, and the importance of pleasure and agency. This multidimensional reader provides a comprehensive view of sexuality from an African perspective.

Author : Marc Epprecht
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780821442982

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Heterosexual Africa? by Marc Epprecht Pdf

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht’s previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed—by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of sources, that will find enthusiastic audiences in classrooms and in the general public. Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people all over the world, have always had a range of sexualities and sexual identities. Over the course of the last two centuries, however, African societies south of the Sahara have come to be viewed as singularly heterosexual. Epprecht carefully traces the many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity, became a dominant culture. In telling a fascinating story that will surely generate lively debate, Epprecht makes his project speak to a range of literatures—queer theory, the new imperial history, African social history, queer and women’s studies, and biomedical literature on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He does this with a light enough hand that his story is not bogged down by endless references to particular debates. Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an enduring stereotype about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa came to be defined as a “homosexual-free zone” during the colonial era, and how this idea not only survived the transition to independence but flourished under conditions of globalization and early panicky responses to HIV/AIDS.

Author : Peter Aggleton,Richard Parker,Felicity Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317743958

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Culture, Health and Sexuality by Peter Aggleton,Richard Parker,Felicity Thomas Pdf

The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality and sexual health, from family planning and STI management to gender and intimate partner violence and the technologisation of sex. This book offers a research-based overview of key topics relevant to social and cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Beginning with an extended introduction and divided into six sections, it looks at culture, sex and gender, sexual diversity, sex work, migration and sexual violence. Each section opens with an editorial discussion which places the theme, and the chapters that follow, in a contemporary context. Six additional substantive chapters can be accessed online at www.routledge.com/cw/aggleton. Including cutting-edge conceptual and empirical material from around the world, this is a key resource for students in, and across, a variety of academic disciplines in the social and health sciences. It is especially suitable for readers from sexuality studies, gender studies, development studies, anthropology and sociology as well as those with public health and social work backgrounds.

Author : Karl Peltzer,Supa Pengpid,Teresa-Ann B. Mashego
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1594548706

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Youth Sexuality in the Context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa by Karl Peltzer,Supa Pengpid,Teresa-Ann B. Mashego Pdf

Dowsett (2003) notes that by far, the vast majority of non-biomedical research on HIV/AIDS has been behavioural research, usually by survey methods, counting people's sex acts, partners, preferences, places, times and reasons for sex, and assessing levels of risk for HIV infection, revealing the dominance of seeing sex largely as behaviours.

Author : Nana K. Poku
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811585029

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa by Nana K. Poku Pdf

This book provides a clear and detailed examination of why it is so difficult to secure comprehensive political engagement and actionable, effective policy on sexual and reproductive health rights in sub-Saharan Africa. In an engaging analysis, Nana Poku employs expert knowledge to examine the prospects for large-scale improvements. He explores not only the full range of normative sensitivities, but also conceptual misunderstandings, legal difficulties and complex challenges of securing and maintaining adequate funding while AIDS remains a pandemic in the region. Up-to-date, succinct yet highly detailed, lucid and compelling in its diagnoses of highly complex issues, this book is a valuable, accessible study of a topic that is regional in focus but with clear global implications.

Author : Theo Sandfort
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030737269

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Male Same-sex Sexuality and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa by Theo Sandfort Pdf

This book addresses the impact of HIV on populations of men who have sex with men in Africa and local responses to the issue. It documents the enduring existence of a rich variety of same-sex practices between men. More critically, it analyses how the denial and social rejection of same-sex sexuality, together with the legacy of criminalization by former colonial rulers, has not only fueled the transmission of HIV between men, but has also impeded an effective response. The book also documents some of the outstanding progress that has been made and acknowledges the differences between African countries. Through its focus on lived realities and grassroots activism in Africa, this book will appeal to researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Author : Marc Epprecht
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773527516

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Hungochani by Marc Epprecht Pdf

Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.