Gender and Childhood Sexuality in Primary School

Professor Deevia Bhana is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality and Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She has published widely in the fields of gender, childhood sexualities, young masculinities and schooling.

• Introduction.- Children are children gender doesn’t matter.- Boys will be boys: What do teachers have to do with it?.- “…they don’t say that men and women are equal”: Culture, materiality and gender.- Teachers are mothers: Can men teach young children?.- Boys rule, Girls drool." Masculinities, femininities and the fight for power.- Boys, violence and the gendered negotiation of masculinities.- Girls hit!’ Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities.- Kiss and tell: Boys, girls and sexualities.- “Emma and Dave sitting on a tree, K I S S I N G” Boys, girls at play.- Conclusion.