- Title
- Sexual socialisation: young adult women storying how sexual activities were discussed in South African cultural contexts
- Creator
- Ludidi, Zizipho
- ThesisAdvisor
- Wilbraham, Lindy
- ThesisAdvisor
- Macleod, Catriona
- Subject
- Socialization South Africa
- Subject
- Sex Social aspects South Africa
- Subject
- Young women Socialization South Africa
- Subject
- Young women Sexual behavior South Africa
- Subject
- Culture
- Subject
- Memory
- Subject
- Narrative inquiry (Research method)
- Date
- 2022-04-07
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/292737
- Identifier
- vital:57011
- Description
- Epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, unplanned pregnancy, gender-based violence and homophobia, in South Africa, have focused research on how young people learn about sex. This research has often focused on young girls from risk-saturated areas, and specific agents of socialisation, where they might learn about sex, such as parents, life orientation at schools, peers, media, and traditional cultural approaches. Using a narrative theoretical framework, through memory work, this study explored how black young adult women friends – who were university students – experienced forms of sexual socialisation, through various communication in South African cultural contexts. Findings from the thematic narrative analysis that was conducted demonstrated that sexual socialisation is a complex life-long process. This takes place through a collision of contradictory messages, from different agents of socialisation, in different cultural contexts. Themes were identified and organised to tell an overall sexual socialisation story that progressed through time, moving from a stage of perceived innocent oblivion, mixed messages in primary and high school, “liberal” university stories and the current stage of reauthoring stories.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (100 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Psychology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Ludidi, Zizipho
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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