‘I've got two men and one woman’: ancestors, sexuality and identity among same‐sex identified women traditional healers in South Africa

Morgan, Ruth; Reid, Graeme

doi:10.1080/1369105011000064146

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“…This is due to the overwhelming amount of trans people being seen by the hospital and theatre time only being allocated for four surgeries per year. South Africa is also a culturally diverse country, in which not only are there unique spaces in which the gender binary can be contested (e.g., female traditional healers who have ancestral wives; see Morgan and Reid 2003), but others in which norms are enforced with extreme violence (Martin, Kelly, Turquet, and Ross 2009). There is thus a multiplicity of cultural norms that may influence cisgender – transgender partnerships and how they are perceived by others.…”

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Experiences of female partners of masculine-identifying trans persons

Theron¹,

Collier

2013

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This study explores the intimate relationship experiences of cisgender (i.e., not transgender) female partners of masculine identifying transgender persons, with a particular focus on these partners’ self-understanding of their sexual orientation. Limited research about this topic has been conducted to date. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight South African women who are or have been cisgender female partners of masculine identifying trans persons. Although the interviews showed that the relationship experiences of female partners of masculine identifying trans persons are diverse, several common themes emerged in the narratives. The way that participants labelled their sexual orientation did not change from before to after their relationship with a transgender partner. The participants reported varied family and community responses to their relationships. Specific emotional and informational support needs for women with transgender partners were identified.

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Experiences of female partners of masculine-identifying trans persons

Theron¹,

Collier

2013

Culture, Health & Sexuality

111

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“…This particular cultural nostalgia not only (erroneously) imagines a sodomy-free African past (Msibi 2011) and reinforces essentialist understandings of 'traditional' African cultures as static and monolithic, but also communicates to teachers that supporting gay and lesbian students might constitute a cultural offence (Msibi 2012). Morgan and Reid (2003), referring to political statements condemning homosexuality in Zimbabwe and Namibia, argue that such statements have two things in common:…”

Section: Violence As Culturementioning

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Silence, nostalgia, violence, poverty … : What does ‘culture’ mean for South African sexuality educators?

DePalma

Francis

2014

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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In in-depth interviews with 25 Life Orientation teachers in South Africa, we found that teachers spontaneously drew upon notions of culture to explain and justify people's sexual beliefs and behaviours and their own role as educators. Drawing upon a Bakhtinian understanding of discourse, we apply critical semantic analysis to explore how culture is deployed as a discursive strategy. Teachers draw upon particular understandings of culture available to them in their social contexts. Furthermore, the substitution of the word 'culture' for a series of other phenomena (silence, violence and poverty) affords these phenomena a certain authority that they would otherwise not wield. We argue, first, that systems teacher education and training needs to (re)define culture as dynamic, interactive and responding to, but not determined by, socio-historical realities. Beyond this, teachers need to learn how to critically engage with cultural practices and perceptions and to be provided with some basic tools to do so, including more sophisticated understandings of cultural and training in dialogic methodologies. Teaching sexuality education in multicultural societies such as South Africa will require meaningful engagement in intercultural dialogues that may need to include voices that have traditionally been excluded from school spaces.

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“…2. According to Morgan and Reid (2003) inkonkoni is known as the blue wildebeest which is a wild animal found in Southern Africa. The association with same-sex acts is on the basis that the wildebeest is sexually indiscriminate.…”

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confidence: 99%

What's in a name? Exploring the sexual identity of Black Women-Loving-Women in Soweto

Pakade¹

2013

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‘I've got two men and one woman’: ancestors, sexuality and identity among same‐sex identified women traditional healers in South Africa

Cited by 32 publications

References 2 publications

Experiences of female partners of masculine-identifying trans persons

Experiences of female partners of masculine-identifying trans persons

Silence, nostalgia, violence, poverty … : What does ‘culture’ mean for South African sexuality educators?

What's in a name? Exploring the sexual identity of Black Women-Loving-Women in Soweto

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