ISBN:
9789087904432
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (159 pages)
Series Statement:
Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Ser.
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DDC:
305.23082
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids is located within the new and broader area of Girlhood Studies. Girls have long been considered a rich feminist memory-site for examining the genesis of women's sense of self in the developed world. To date, however, only a few scholars have focused on Southern African girlhoods. Even fewer focus on methodologies for researching girlhood. This is despite the particular vulnerability of girls to gender-based violence and HIV and Aids, and the relative complexity of doing research with girls in diverse cultural contexts in this region. Thus, the book aims to take this agenda forward and to investigate a range of participatory methodological and theoretical approaches that can be adapted to study girls and girlhood in Southern Africa. These methodologies, which look at research with girls, about girls and for girls, include policy research, writing, fictional practice, and visual arts-based methods, to be used as analytical tools that should, can, and have been used to examine the lives of girls, particularly in the age of HIV and Aids in Southern Africa. Biographical note Relebohile Moletsane was Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies and Gender Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal until 2007. She is Research Director in the Gender and Development unit at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Honorary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. Claudia Mitchell Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Honorary Professor in School of Language, Literacies, Media and Drama Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Abstract:
Intro -- Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids -- LIST OF ILLLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Girls in/and development: New methodologies for researching Southern African girlhoods in the era of Aids -- SECTION ONE: RESEARCH WITH GIRLS -- Chapter 2: Negotiating cultural spaces in researching girlhood in the context of Aids in Southern Africa -- Chapter 3: Pinky Pinky and toilets: Disrupting the silences around sexual violence in and around schools through photo-voice -- Chapter 4: Speaking the unspeakable: Working with girls through participatory video to uncover issues of incest -- SECTION TWO: RESEARCH ABOUT GIRLS AND GIRLHOOD -- Chapter 5: Writing girlhood in the context of Aids -- Chapter 6: Girl Power in Nervous conditions: Girls and girlhood in fictional practice -- SECTION THREE: RESEARCH FOR GIRLS AND GIRLHOOD -- Chapter 7: Policy frameworks on gender-based violence in schools and communities -- Chapter 8: "Do least harm": Ethical considerations in researching Southern African girlhoods in the context of gender-based violence and Aids -- Chapter 9: Girlhood matters and African feminisms: Towards an agenda for research with, about, and for girlhood -- Notes -- References -- Index -- TRANSGRESSIONS: CULTURAL STUDIES AND EDUCATION.
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