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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Locating the research: Taking teenage love seriously -- Love, sexuality and gender: Theoretical framings and concepts -- Researching young people, gender and sexuality -- The larger project: 16 turning 17 -- Love, sex and teenage sexual cultures in South Africa: The Inanda setting -- Focus group discussions -- Reflexivity -- Chapter outline -- 2 Teenagers expressing love: Regulating gender and sexuality -- Expressing love |
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The pressure to have sexMaterial conceptions of love -- Conclusion -- 3 Girls want money, boys want virgins: Culture and the materiality of teenage love -- Love, sex and money: â#x80;#x9C;Sugar daddies destroy livesâ#x80;#x9D; -- Entangling teenage love with consumption, culture and desire -- Girls want money: Upholding provider masculinity -- Boys want virgins: Farm Julias and masculine power -- Conclusion -- 4 â#x80;#x98;Pure loveâ#x80;#x99;: Virgins, virtue and desire -- Contextualising virginity, gender and culture in KwaZulu-Natal |
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Â#x80;#x9C;I prefer girls who go to umhlanga. Teenage masculinities and the defence of virginityâ#x80;#x9C;Umhlanga is a good thing.â#x80;#x9D; Teenage girls claiming culture, respectability and gender identity -- Conclusion -- 5 â#x80;#x9C;Iâ#x80;#x99;m the one who says I love you first and Iâ#x80;#x99;m the one to break up with youâ#x80;#x9D;: Masculinity, forced love and resistance -- Heterosexual masculinity, violence and resistance: Shifting towards a new South African man? -- â#x80;#x9C;Iâ#x80;#x99;m not asking you, Iâ#x80;#x99;m telling youâ#x80;#x9D;: Love, force and masculine domination |
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Â#x80;#x9C;Bright futureâ#x80;#x9D;: The materiality of resistance and imagined masculinityConclusion -- 6 â#x80;#x9C;Girls are not freeâ#x80;#x9D;: Feelings of love, feelings of fear -- Contextualising fear: Gender and sexual violence -- Femininities and the question of â#x80;#x98;lite agencyâ#x80;#x99; -- Scared of boys: Feeling love, feeling fear -- â#x80;#x9C;Male teachers are interested in young girlsâ#x80;#x9D; -- Fear in and around the neighbourhood -- â#x80;#x9C;They say that you are safe inside your house but youâ#x80;#x99;re notâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x98;Lite agencyâ#x80;#x99; and resistant femininity: A man is nothing in your life -- Conclusion |
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7 Conclusion: Calling for compassion, care and changeKey findings -- Towards compassion, care and change in policy: Teenage engagement with sexuality education -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
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Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- South Africa
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Love in adolescence -- South Africa
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Sex (Psychology) -- South Africa
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Teenagers -- South Africa -- Social conditions
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Love in adolescence
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Sex (Psychology)
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Teenagers -- Sexual behavior
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Teenagers -- Social conditions
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South Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315283012 |
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1315283018 |
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