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What are girls learning from porn? -- Block porn and play porn : power, pleasure and possibilities -- "Dirty work" : the politics of researching teenage girls and porn -- Porn pops : "ten or eleven, I already knew what sex was" -- Porn puzzles : sexual things, feeling things, and unrealistic things -- Porn for pleasure : pleasure for men? -- Queer assemblages : girls figuring out sexuality and porn -- Porn race(s) : white, long hair, nice boobs, and always young -- Porn conversations : "I'm curious, you're curious, let's be curious together."

"This book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. Whereas many discussions of pornography are preoccupied with teenage girls as passive and vulnerable, this book argues in favour of a more capacious view of teenage girls, alert to their agency. Drawing on extensive qualitative research amongst upper income black and white 14-18-year-olds, the book demonstrates that these interactions with online porn are a critical site for girls to learn, develop, and negotiate diverse meanings of power, gender, sexuality, and relationships. The book uses the term 'play' to illustrate girls' sexual agency, feelings, and desires as they navigate the online sexual world in ways that permit a level of freedom, exploration, pleasures, adventures, connections, and discoveries of sex, sexualities, bodies, and identities. Drawing on theory from across critical sexualities and race studies, post structural feminism, and queer theorizing, the book resists taking either a pro- or anti-porn stance, instead arguing that teenage girls' engagement with online porn is in contradictory, nuanced and complex. With important insights both for South Africa and beyond, this book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, youth gender and sexuality studies"--

"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."--Publisher's 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 gendifer inequalities, HIV and violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and romance within the widifer social and cultural context undiferwritten 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, undifergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sociology, HIV, health and gendifer studies, development and postcolonial studies and African studies."--Publisher's summary.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Making a Place for Gender and Sexuality in the Early Years of Primary Schooling -- Theoretical Toolkit of Power: Feminist, Social/Structural Thinking -- Rethinking Sex/Gender Models: Feminist Poststructuralism -- Researching Gender and Sexuality in the Four School Multi-sited Ethnography -- Contextualising the Schools -- The Schools and Participants -- Study Details -- Observing in Schools -- Interviews with Teachers -- Conversations with Children -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Children Are Children: Gender Doesn't Matter?

Im globalen Süden wird geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt durch soziale und ökonomische Ungleichheit besonders verschärft. Obwohl Mädchen überproportional häufig von Gewalt im Alltag betroffen sind, greift es zu kurz, sie als hilflose Opfer darzustellen. Vielmehr zeigt die folgende Interviewstudie mit Mädchen an Schulen beispielhaft, dass sie auf Gewalt aktiv reagieren – mit Verstärkung oder Ablehnung von Gewalt.

Against the backdrop of South Africa's policies that guarantee equality on the basis of sexual orientation, this article documents the ways in which school managers negotiate and contest the rights of gays and lesbians at school, analysing the implications. It draws on a queer approach which recognizes relations of heterosexual domination and subordination as well as the material and social realities through which such relations are produced. Of importance, the study finds that the political emphasis on rights has positive effects for raising the homosexual agenda at schools. Yet, this is not the only means through which rights are managed. Discrimination, sexual denial and religious intolerance combined with racialized and cultural practices point to severe restrictions. Nonetheless, the article provides important insights for educational management noting the broadening options amid political and policy emphasis on schools' responsibilities for sexual rights.