Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces

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.

• Chapter 1. Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Education: A Three-Ply Yarn Approach Deevia Bhana, Shakila Singh and Thabo Msibi.- Chapter 2. ‘Other’ boys contesting hegemonic masculinities and violence in primary school Emmanuel Mayeza and Deevia Bhana.- Chapter 3. Desire and Distress: Girls growing up and negotiating gender, sexuality and harassment in the primary school Deevia Bhana.- Chapter 4. Primary school boys validating and resisting masculinities: “I don’t appreciate violence at all. I stop the violence.” Shaaista Moosa.- Chapter 5. “I don’t start a fight, they start my powerful engine”: Exploring how young boys construct, contest and negotiate violent masculinities at a primary school. Diloshini Govender .- Chapter 6. Rural primary school boys negotiating masculinity, sexuality and culture Senzo Nkabini .- Chapter 7. ‘Ukushela’: Teenage girls and boys initiating and negotiating courtship at school Sibonsile Zibane.- Chapter 8. Teenage girls’ experiencesof slut-shaming through the social network site, Facebook Preenisha Naicker and Shakila Singh.- Chapter 9. Hair-raising and Make-up interviews with young girls in school: Race, gender and sexuality Rob Pattman and Deevia Bhana.- Chapter 10. Pre-service teachers’ experience of sexual harassment on campus Shakila Singh and Sibonile Kabaya.-  Chapter 11. Alcohol, fear and mini-skirts: Female students’ explanations of vulnerability to gender-based violence on campus Ronicka Mudaly, Shakila Singh, Asheena Singh-Pillay and Bongeka Mabaso.- Chapter 12. “It is violence that you become a victim of because you are that thing” Shakila Singh and Sibusiso Ngubane.- Chapter 13. Living on Campus: First Year Female Students’ exposure to and experiences of sexual violence Bronwynne Anderson and Charnel Ruby Naidoo.