Gender and Childhood Sexuality in Primary School

Bhana, Deevia

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2239-5

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“…In literature, the media and everyday interactions we can identify recurring cultural scripts on adolescents' sexuality that shape how (young) people understand and experience sex and SRHR programs. These include, among others: 1) gendered scripts that undermine women's reproductive choices by constructing men as rational and women as irrational in decision-making, 2) the representation of women as passive sexual objects while multiple partners for men is seen as a norm, and 3) the construction of the male sex drive as natural and unavoidable and the acceptance of men's use of sex as a way to prove their masculinity (Shefer and Foster 2001;Shefer and Ngabaza 2015;Bhana 2016 ). Scripts around adolescents' sexuality portray sexual practices within this age-group as not adhering to sanctioned cultural practices and, thus, discussions about sex are constructed as 'taboo' (Shefer and Ngabaza 2015).…”

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WITHDRAWN: Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents’ sexuality in rural Zambia

Mulubwa

Hurtig

Zulu

et al. 2021

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Introduction: This article aimed to analyse constructions of adolescents’ sexualities and sexual health and the consequences of these discourses for adolescents’ exercise of their sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in rural Zambia. Methods: We analysed data from photo-elicitations interviews and focus group discussions with 25 adolescents who participated in a SRHR intervention that aimed to reduce adolescents’ pregnancies and early marriages. Results: We identified three interpretative repertories: 1) sex is for mature people in which adolescents positioned themselves as ‘immature, and young to engage in sex; 2) gendered respectful behaviours in which what was considered disrespectful (and respectful) behaviour in relation to sexuality were strongly influenced by gender, and more clearly defined for girls than it was for boys. Sexuality was not only about individual choices but about being respectful to parents; and 3) acquiring and using knowledge about sexuality in which adolescents conflicted between having and applying SRHR knowledge. Conclusion: These repertories offer an important context that shape how adolescents negotiate, adopt and resist SRHR interventions. Future interventions that target adolescents’ SRHR must aim to address the sexual scripts that have serve to erect barriers against positive sexual behaviours, including access to SRHR services that promote safer sex.

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WITHDRAWN: Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents’ sexuality in rural Zambia

Mulubwa

Hurtig

Zulu

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“…If primary education, as stated by Bhana (2016), is essential to contesting pre-assigned social roles for boys and girls because of their gender, 43 da Luz Scherf, Alves Lima Zanatta, Tumenas Mell -Gender-Awarness amongst Brazilian Children the results demonstrate how the schools (where the surveys took place) and how the teachers have failed to introduce the gender debate in the classroom.…”

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“…Thus, these students often internalize and perceive unequal power relations based on gender constructs as natural as opposed to socially and culturally constructed (Marks, Bun & McHale, 2009). The consequences are terrible: if both boys and girls grow up believing that women are naturally destined to marry, to have children, or to do all the housework alone even when they got a partner, we are fated to perpetuate patterns of gender inequality not only within the household but as well as in many other levels of society (Bhana, 2016). None of these children mentioned another role for women in society besides working or doing the housework: they did not mention their role in politics, in science, or any other maledominated fields, which especially in the girls' case can end up limiting the future visions they share of themselves.…”

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“…Bhana (2016, p. 2, our italics) argues that, differently from the simplistic pre-assumed idea of childhood innocence, "the early years of primary schooling are a key site for the production and reproduction of gender and sexuality". Thus, if children are actively invested in gender and sexuality, they should also be confronted with the knowledge and discussions essential to contesting pre-assigned social roles for boys and girls because of their gender identity or sexuality (Bhana, 2016).…”

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Gender-Awareness amongst Brazilian Children Enrolled in Primary Education: Implications for Women’s Rights & Equality

Scherf

Zanatta

Mello

2020

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The general objectives of this article were to investigate what are the perceptions of Brazilian children enrolled in primary education over gender-assigned roles and the place of women in society and to analyze what could be the impacts of their answers on the foreseeable future of women’s rights and equality in contemporary Brazil. This research was drawn from a qualitative approach and our research method was composed of data collection and data analysis through the use of surveys. Our main conclusions were that gender dynamics within the family core influences a lot the perception of children over gender hierarchies, which can result in repeating patterns of gender inequality and in reinforcing pre-assigned roles for women in society. Thus, the role of gender education is paramount in the task of helping these children challenge and question this unequal and often unjust power balance that takes place in their households. When asked about what they considered to be the role of women in society, the majority of the children surveyed answered that women should work and be responsible for activities such as taking care of the family or doing housework. This vision imposes a burden upon women to follow certain social roles as well as limits the future visions they have for themselves.

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“…It is perhaps understandable, to a degree, that focusing on the sexual health needs and experiences of transgender young people is fraught. First, focusing on all young people and their sexual health needs and experiences is fraught by the presumption of childhood innocence and the fear of 'corrupting' young people (Bhana 2016;Robinson 2012). Second, people who are transgender continue to be sexualised and pathologised.…”

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Transgender young people’s narratives of intimacy and sexual health: implications for sexuality education

Riggs

Bartholomaeus

2017

Sex Education

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Sexuality education as pedagogy is often fraught by the perceived need to balance the informational needs of young people with an investment in notions of childhood innocence. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in sexuality education that seeks to be inclusive of transgender young people, often resulting in the failure of such education to address the needs of such students. In an attempt at addressing the relative dearth of information about what transgender young people would like to see covered in sexuality education, in this article we explore transgender young people's accounts of intimacy and sexual health and consider what this means for school-based sexuality education. To do this we analyse discussions of intimacy from the perspectives of transgender young people as narrated in a sample of YouTube videos. We conclude by advocating for an approach to sexuality education that largely eschews the gendering of body parts and gametes, and which instead focuses on function, so as to not only address the needs of transgender young people (who may find normative discussions of genitals distressing), but to also provide cisgender young people with a more inclusive understanding of their own and other people's bodies and desires.

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Gender and Childhood Sexuality in Primary School

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WITHDRAWN: Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents’ sexuality in rural Zambia

WITHDRAWN: Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents’ sexuality in rural Zambia

Gender-Awareness amongst Brazilian Children Enrolled in Primary Education: Implications for Women’s Rights & Equality

Transgender young people’s narratives of intimacy and sexual health: implications for sexuality education

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