Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa - 16 Turning 17

Informationen zum Autor Deevia Bhana is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair and Professor in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Zusammenfassung By drawing on focus group discussions with African teenage men and women, the book addresses teenage young Africans as active agents, demonstrating their investments in love, whilst drawing attention to the social and cultural constitution of teenage sexualities and the complex operation of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Teenagers Expressing Love: Regulating Gender and Sexuality 3. Girls want Money, Boys want Virgins: Culture and the Materiality of Teenage Love 4. ‘Pure Love’: Virgins, Virtue and Desire 5. "I’m the one who says I love you first, and I’m the one to break up with you." Masculinity, Forced Love and Resistance 6. "Girls are not free." Feelings of Love, Feelings of Fear 7. Conclusion: Calling for Compassion, Care and Change

Product details

• Authors: Deevia Bhana, Deevia (University of Kwazulu-Natal Bhana, Bhana Deevia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138235274
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23527-4
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Humanities, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies