Life orientation sexuality education in South Africa: Gendered norms, justice and transformation

Case Studies & Research
2015
10 p.
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Perspectives in Education, 33 (2)

Research on sexual practices among young South Africans has proliferated in light of the national imperatives to challenge the spread of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence and unwanted early pregnancies. It has been widely acknowledged that, in order to respond to these social problems, we need to understand the enmeshment of gender, class, age and other forms of social inequality, and how these are played out in ‘normal’ heterosexual relationships.

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