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Activist performance and performative activism towards intersectional gender and sexual justice in contemporary South Africa by Shefer, Tamara

“…Democratic South Africa post-1994 boasts an impressive constitutional and legal commitment to human rights, including the enshrinement of sexual and gender…”
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Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa by Shefer, Tamara

“…Review of the book Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa, edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke, and Srila Roy…”
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‘Troubling’ Politics of Research on Young Sexual Practices in South African Contexts by Shefer, Tamara

“…In this article, I reflect on the last few decades of research on young sexual practices in the post-apartheid context of South Africa. I am concerned here to…”
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Intimate partner violence after disclosure of HIV test results among pregnant women in Harare, Zimbabwe by Shamu, Simukai, Zarowsky, Christina, Shefer, Tamara, Temmerman, Marleen, Abrahams, Naeemah

“…HIV status disclosure is a central strategy in HIV prevention and treatment but in high prevalence settings women test disproportionately and most often during…”
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A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities by Shefer, Tamara, Munt, Sally R

“…This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on…”
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Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe by Shamu, Simukai, Shamu, Patience, Zarowsky, Christina, Temmerman, Marleen, Shefer, Tamara, Abrahams, Naeemah

“…Sexual and physical abuse in childhood creates a great health burden including on mental and reproductive health. A possible link between child abuse and HIV…”
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Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy: Towards Reconfiguring Scholarship by Bozalek, Vivienne, Shefer, Tamara, Romano, Nike

“…Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with…”
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Productive faces of shame: An interview with Elspeth Probyn by Probyn, Elspeth, Bozalek, Vivienne, Shefer, Tamara, Carolissen, Ronelle

“…Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience…”
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Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship by Shefer, Tamara, Zembylas, Michalinos, Bozalek, Vivienne

“…Although often unacknowledged and unrewarded, peer reviewing is a crucial part of the process of academic scholarship. Surprisingly, not much has been written…”
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'And I have been told that there is nothing fun about having sex while you are still in high school' : dominant discourses on women's sexual practices and desires in Life Orientation programmes at school by Shefer, Tamara, Ngabaza, Sisa

“…Young women's sexuality is a contested terrain in multiple ways in contemporary South Africa. A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based…”
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“Girls need to behave like girls you know”: the complexities of applying a gender justice goal within sexuality education in South African schools by Ngabaza, Sisa, Shefer, Tamara, Macleod, Catriona Ida

“…Résumé L’éducation sexuelle, comme composante du programme de Life Orientation (LO, cours de préparation à la vie) dans les écoles sud-africaines, a pour but…”
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"That pregnancy can bring noise into the family": exploring intimate partner sexual violence during pregnancy in the context of HIV in Zimbabwe by Shamu, Simukai, Abrahams, Naeemah, Temmerman, Marleen, Shefer, Tamara, Zarowsky, Christina

“…Globally, studies report a high prevalence of intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) and an association with HIV infection. Despite the criminalisation of…”
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Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa : gendered norms, justice and transformation by Shefer, Tamara, Macleod, Catriona

“…Research on sexual practices among young South Africans has proliferated in light of the national imperatives to challenge the spread of HIV/AIDS, gender-based…”
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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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'I could have done everything and why not?' : Young women's complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools by Shefer, Tamara, Kruger, Lou-Marie, Oakes, Antoinette

“…Progressive policies protecting women's rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not…”
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Resisting the binarism of victim and agent: Critical reflections on 20 years of scholarship on young women and heterosexual practices in South African contexts by Shefer, Tamara

“…The last 20 years have seen a proliferation of research, spurred by the imperatives of the HIV epidemic and reportedly high rates of gender-based violence, on…”
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LESSONS FROM THE EVALUATION OF A PUBLIC OUT-PATIENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMME IN THE WESTERN CAPE by Strebel, Anna, Shefer, Tamara, Stacey, Maria, Shabalala, Nokuthula

“…Given the extent of alcohol and substance abuse in South Africa, there is an urgent need for effective, evidence-based interventions. This study reports on…”
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Sexuality education in South African schools: deconstructing the dominant response to young people's sexualities in contemporary schooling contexts by Ngabaza, Sisa, Shefer, Tamara

“…South African schools are tasked with providing sexuality education through the Life Orientation curriculum as a means of challenging continued high rates of…”
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Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa by Strebel, Anna, Crawford, Mary, Shefer, Tamara, Cloete, Allanise, Dwadwa-Henda, Nomvo, Kaufman, Michelle, Simbayi, Leickness, Magome, Kgobati, Kalichman, Seth

“…The links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS risk are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated how…”
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Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship by Shefer, Tamara, Bozalek, Vivienne

“…This article thinks with oceans and swimming, in dialogue with decolonial feminist materialist approaches and other current novel methodologies which…”
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