1st Edition

Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities A Transnational Feminist Engagement

By Tamara Shefer, Jeff Hearn Copyright 2023
192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as ‘trouble’ through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people’s sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges. Located primarily in South... Read more
1. ‘Troubling’ approaches to young sexualities

2. Young people, gender and sexualities

3. Gender binarisms and heteronormativity

4. Victims and perpetrators

5. Idealized and demonized young people

6. Transnational and local (mis)travels

7. Towards alternative engagements with young people

Biography

Tamara Shefer is Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden.