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Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom.

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dc.contributor.author Saville Young, Lisa
dc.contributor.author Moodley, Dale
dc.contributor.author Ida Macleod, Catriona
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-06T22:13:36Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-06T22:13:36Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1511974 en_US
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1416
dc.description 16 pages : PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract 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. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 19;No. 4
dc.subject Sexuality education; educators; psychic investments; subjectivity; South Africa en_US
dc.title Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom. en_US
dc.title.alternative An educator’s constructions of and investments in sexuality education en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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