Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa

This book—Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa—is structured around four major themes: gender and sexuality diversity; love, pleasure and respect; gender, sexual violence and health; and sexuality, gender and sexual justice. Chapters in this book analyse sexuality in relation to recent developments in the Southern African region and what this might mean for contemporary theory, policy and practice.

Sex, sexuality and sexual health are often viewed through a narrow biomedical lens, ignoring the fact that they are profoundly social and historical in character. The contributors in this book bring to light the entanglements of sexuality with respect, recognition, rights and mutual respectful pleasure. Authors draw attention to partnerships, allyships and feminist, queer and trans coalitions in the pursuit of sexual health and justice in the region.

The book will be of interest to final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and activists as well as those working in Women and Gender Studies, Critical Sexuality Studies, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Development Studies, Public Health, Psychology, Education, Sociology and Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Sex, sexuality and sexual health in Southern Africa

Deevia Bhana, Mary Crewe and Peter Aggleton

Part I: Gender and sexuality diversity

Chapter 2. Border crossings: Trans allyship in Southern Africa

Christi Kruger and Pierre Brouard

Chapter 3. Beyond borders: Reproducing and challenging homophobic norms in Zimbabwe

Nelson Muparamoto

Chapter 4. Civil society organisations responding to homophobia and transphobia in Namibian schools

Anthony Brown

Part II: Love, pleasure and respect

Chapter 5. Young women’s experiences of intimate partner violence, respect and agency in South African informal settlements

Samantha Willan, Nwabisa Shai, Nolwazi Ntini, Andrew Gibbs and Rachel Jewkes

Chapter 6. The free sex (talk) boys and men might want

Kopano Ratele

Chapter 7. More to be desired: the need to engage men and couples around communication, sexual pleasure and consent in Southern African safer sex interventions

Laura Pascoe

Part III: Gender, sexual violence and health

Chapter 8. Men’s emotions, violence and change

Andrew Gibbs, Laura Washington, Smanga Mkhwanazi, Sivuyile Khaula, Zama Khoza, Mziwethu Gcuma and Yandisa Sikweyiya

Chapter 9. Power, visibility and sexual and reproductive health in southern Africa

Blessings N. Kaunda-Khangamwa, Alexander Kagaha, Nirvana Pillay and Lenore Manderson

Chapter 10. Examining the gendered experiences of migrant and refugee women in Southern Africa

Tamaryn L. Crankshaw, Jane Freedman and Victoria M. Mutambara

Part IV: Sexuality, gender and sexual justice

Chapter 11. Refining youth sexualities empowerment programmes: the development of the Masizixhobise toolkit based on a critical sexual and reproductive citizenship framework

Catriona Ida Macleod and Sarah Moore

Chapter 12. Thinking with creativity, affect and embodiment in sexual justice scholarship

Tamara Shefer

Chapter 13. Gender and sexuality diversity in Southern Africa

Tiffany Jones

Afterword

Marc Epprecht and Aminata Cécile Mbaye