- Title
- Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom: an educator’s constructions of and investments in sexuality education
- Creator
- Saville Young, Lisa, Moodley, Dale D, Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444302
- Identifier
- vital:74215
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1511974"
- Description
- Within the growing body of literature on sexuality education in South Africa, researchers have highlighted how teachers may face, or themselves be, barriers to the implementation of rights-based comprehensive sexuality education. Important issues with regard to educators are: firstly, the social and discursive space within which educators are located; and secondly, the complex emotional and psychic investments that educators take up within particular discourses and practices. This paper explores, through a psychosocial reading of an interview extract with a particular educator based in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, how discursive and psychic concerns are sutured within the complex subjectivity of the educator as the medium for sexual education in schools. Specifically, it highlights the numerous ways in which feminine sexuality and desire may be avoided, denied and silenced. Even when feminine desire is specifically evoked as in this case, it is done so in a way that ensures social and cultural respectability, thereby reproducing shame narratives that form and maintain traditional gender discourses. Our analysis demonstrates how engaging with educators as subjects with their own sexual history and psychic dynamics, and as individuals with raced, gendered and classed identities, is a potentially transformative perspective for effective sexuality education.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (15 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Sex Education, Saville Young, L., Moodley, D. and Macleod, C.I., 2019. Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom: an educator’s constructions of and investments in sexuality education. Sex Education, 19(4), pp.486-500, Sex Education volume 19 number 4 p. 486 2019 1472-0825
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- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/terms-and-conditions)
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- Closed Access
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Young, Lisa Saville (Prof)
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproductions Research (CSSR) Programme
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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