Gendering and Sexualities

This text features selected chapters from The International Conference on Gender and Sexuality (G&S) and aims to explore, highlight, reflect on, engage with, develop and lead on issues pertaining to G&S. This book challenges and re-imagines historical assumptions and constructions of gendering and sexualities. How they manifest in people's lives and communities are critical to explore and understand. This book appeals to students and researchers in the field. Previously published in Gender Issues Volume 38, issue 3, September 2021
Chapter "These Women are Making a Statement Against Rape and yet the only Thing Y'All can Focus on is 'Eww They're Naked'": Exploring Rape Culture on Facebook in South Africa is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Explores how gender and sexuality are complex and increasingly interrogated domains Surveys how gender continues to be constructed and re-constructed by individuals and communities Investigates assumptions about sex, heteronormativity, and gender binaries

Autorentext

Shahana Rasool is a Rhodes Scholar who obtained a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Oxford (UK), Department of Social Policy. She is currently an Associate Professor and former head of the Social Work Department at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), lecturing in research, social issues, and community development. Prior to coming to UJ, she lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS).

Inhalt
Introduction to Gendering and Sexualities.- These Women are Making a Statement Against Rape and yet the only Thing Y'All can Focus on is 'Eww They're Naked': Exploring Rape Culture on Facebook in South Africa.- The Influence of Gender and Customer Status on Foreigners' Perceptions of Individuals Who Sell Sex in Thailand.- We Need to Understand the Whole Story: A Discursive Analysis of the Responses of Informal Support Networks to Help Seeking by Women Experiencing Abuse from Men in a Small South African Town.- Underprivileged Women Impacted by Ethnic Violence: Deconstructing Lives.- Girls' Right to Education in Tanzania: Incongruities between Legislation and Practice.- Resilience and Resistance: The Narrative of a Transgender Youth in Rural South Africa.