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Understanding and addressing homophobia in schools : a view from teachers by Bhana, Deevia

“…South African schools have been found to be homophobic. Teachers can play an important role in offering a critique of homophobia grounded in South Africa's…”
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Race, Class, and Masculinities in a South African Primary School by Govender, Diloshini, Bhana, Deevia

“…Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how 8–9-year-old South African boys construct and negotiate heterosexual masculinities in the primary…”
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Girls under surveillance: Engaging Zimbabwean parents on young people’s sexual health by Bhana, Deevia, Matswetu, Vimbai

“…Background: Parents play an important role in shaping young people’s sexual lives and behaviours with implications for their current and future sexual and…”
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Caring masculinities? Teenage fathers in South Africa by Mvune, Nozipho, Bhana, Deevia

“…In this paper, we examine ways in which a group of teenage fathers in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, talk about their involvement in becoming a teenage…”
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Negotiating femininities on campus: Sexuality, gender and risk in an HIV environment by Bhana, Deevia, Pillay, Janet

“…Objective: In South Africa, Black African women between the ages of 15 and 24 years are especially vulnerable to HIV. The heterosexual transmission of the…”
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Boys and bullying in primary school : young masculinities and the negotiation of power by Mayeza, Emmanuel, Bhana, Deevia

“…In this article, we draw on data from focus group discussions to examine the ways in which some young boys in a South African township primary school construct…”
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Humhandara and hujaya: Virginity, Culture, and Gender Inequalities Among Adolescents in Zimbabwe by Matswetu, Vimbai Sharon, Bhana, Deevia

“…Given the significance of gender and cultural norms in producing meanings about sexuality, we address the ways in which rural adolescents in Zimbabwe, aged…”
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Gendering the foundation : teaching sexuality amid sexual danger and gender inequalities by Bhana, Deevia

“…How might Life Skills be conceptualised in the Foundation Phase of schooling when a tradition of feminist literature has revealed the regulation, denial and…”
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Smoking, swearing and strong muscles: Becoming boys in the primary school by Govender, Diloshini, Bhana, Professor Deevia

“…•Smoking, swearing and muscularity are vital elements of dominant masculinity.•Dominant masculinity is associated with the surrounding social conditions.•Race…”
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Sexual and reproductive well-being of teenage mothers in a South African township school by Nkani, Nomvuyo, Bhana, Deevia

“…Research addressing the sexual health and reproductive rights of pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers is growing, although attention to the sexual well-being…”
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Teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts : deconstructing school narratives and understanding policy implementation by Shefer, Tamara, Morrell, Robert, Bhana, Deevia

“…South African national education policy is committed to promoting gender equality at school and to facilitating the successful completion of all young people's…”
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Primary School Teachers Misrecognizing Trans Identities? Religious, Cultural, and Decolonial Assemblages by Bhana, Deevia

“…Background: Teachers’ support for addressing cisgenderism and cisnormative cultures in schools is necessary to support students’ freedom to express gender in…”
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Parents and the gender and sexual violence assemblage in a rural school by Bhana, Deevia

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Love and Assault: Parents’ Views on Corporal Punishment in School by Bhana, Deevia

“…Abstract Corporal punishment remains prevalent in schools globally, and even after its prohibition in South Africa, the focus of this study, it continues. In…”
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'You see all these really beautiful people... and then, you look at yourself': bodies matter in teenage girls' engagement with porn by Bhana, Deevia

“…This article focuses on South African teenage girls' engagement with pornography. Using a decolonial approach and drawing upon new feminist materialism, this…”
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When schoolgirls become mothers : reflections from a selected group of teenage girls in Durban by Mcambi, Sithembile Judith, Bhana, Deevia

“…Schools are obliged to support young women who become mothers. Drawing from an interview study of young women in a Durban school, this article shows how their…”
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Gender, Sexuality and HIV and AIDS Education in South Africa by Deevia, Bhana, Shakila, Singh

“…The HIV epidemic in South Africa affects young people in their teenage years, the majority of whom are young women located in schools. Sexual violence and…”
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Men who teach Early Childhood Education: Mediating Masculinity, Authority and Sexuality by Moosa, Shaaista, Bhana, Deevia

“…Efforts to involve men in teaching young children is aimed at disrupting gender-specific occupational segregation and the feminization of teaching. This paper…”
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Virginity and virtue: African masculinities and femininities in the making of teenage sexual cultures by Bhana, Deevia

“…In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the ways in which teenage Africans construct sexuality is imbued with high cultural value that honours virginity and female…”
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Girls negotiating sexuality and violence in the primary school by Bhana, Deevia

“…Girls’ vulnerability to sexual violence and harassment is a recurrent theme in much of the literature on schooling in sub‐Saharan Africa. Within this research,…”
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