Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Education—A Three-Ply Yarn Approach

   • Deevia Bhana, Shakila Singh, Thabo Msibi

   Pages 1-46

3. “Other” Boys Contesting Hegemonic Masculinities and Violence in the Primary School

   • Emmanuel Mayeza, Deevia Bhana

   Pages 47-67

4. Primary School Boys Validating and Resisting Hegemonic Masculinities: “I Don’t Appreciate Violence at all. I Stop the Violence.”

   • Shaaista Moosa

   Pages 69-90

5. “I Don’t Start a Fight; They Start my Powerful Engine”: Primary School Boys Negotiating Violence and Gendered Bullying

   • Diloshini Govender

   Pages 91-112

6. Girls and the Negotiation of Heterosexual Femininities in the Primary School

   • Naresa Govender, Deevia Bhana

   Pages 113-133

7. Desire and Distress: Girls Growing Up and Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Harassment in the Primary School

   • Deevia Bhana

   Pages 135-158

8. Ukushela: Teenage Girls and Boys Negotiating Courtship at School

   • Sibonsile Zibane

   Pages 159-180

9. Teenage Girls’ Experiences of Slut-Shaming Through the Social Network Site, Facebook

   • Preenisha Naicker, Shakila Singh

   Pages 181-201

10. Hair-Raising and Makeup Interviews with Young People in a High School: Gender, Race and Sexuality

    • Rob Pattman, Deevia Bhana

    Pages 203-222

11. Preservice Teachers’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment at a University Campus

    • Sibonile Kabaya, Shakila Singh

    Pages 223-244

12. “Why you Touching me? This Is Scary.” Alcohol, Fear, and Miniskirts as Risk Factors in Female Students’ Understandings of Violence on Campus

    • Ronicka Mudaly, Shakila Singh, Asheena Singh-Pillay, Bongeka Mabaso

    Pages 245-268

13. Male University Peer Educators on Violence: Challenging and Complying with Hegemonic Masculine Norms

    • Sibusiso Ngubane, Shakila Singh

    Pages 269-291

14. Back Matter

    Pages 293-299

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The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised systems of power are produced in educational settings that are framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact with each other. All these nuanced features of gender and sexuality are vital if we are to understand inequalities and violence, and fundamental to our three-ply yarn approach in this book. Focusing on the South African context, but with international relevance, the authors adopt the metaphor of the three-ply yarn (Jordan-Young, 2010): these being the cross-cutting themes of gender, sexuality and violence. Subsequently, the book illustrates the intimate ties that bind gender and sexuality with the social and cultural dimensions of violence, as experienced in educational settings. 

• gender
• sexuality
• violence
• South Africa
• femininity
• masculinity
• three-ply yarn

• School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  Deevia Bhana, Shakila Singh, Thabo Msibi

Deevia Bhana is the NRF/DSI South African Research Chair and Professor in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research interests include children, young people, sexualities and schooling.


Shakila Singh is an Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research interests are in sexuality, gender and violence in education.


Thabo Msibi is an Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research interests are in gender, sexuality as it relates to African sexualities, and the integration of sex education in mainstream teaching curricula.

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