http://depts.washington.edu/sphnet/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Coovadia.pdf

The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges

Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study

Research shows that gender power inequity in relationships and intimate partner violence places women at enhanced risk of HIV infection. Men who have been violent towards their partners are more likely to have HIV. Men's behaviours show a clustering of violent and risky sexual practices, suggesting important connections. This paper draws on Raewyn Connell's notion of hegemonic masculinity and reflections on emphasized femininities to argue that these sexual, and male violent, practices are rooted in and flow from cultural ideals of gender identities. The latter enables us to understand why men and women behave as they do, and the emotional and material context within which sexual behaviours are enacted.

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Gender and sexuality: emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa and implications for HIV risk and prevention

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Writing the World from an African Metropolis

Southern African historiography has become increasingly gender‐sensitive in the last decade. Primarily as a result of the impact of feminism in the world of work and in universities, research on women has burgeoned. The inclusion of women in the study of the past and the recognition of their agency has filled an important lacuna but also has made evident the corresponding gap in knowledge about men. The dominance of men in the public record has obscured the fact that little is known about masculinity. Men have generally been treated in essentialist terms. The socially constructed nature of masculinity is widely acknowledged and it is this insight that needs to be applied to a study of the region's history. This article introduces readers to the inter‐disciplinary work on masculinity, reviews how research on gender in South Africa has handled issues of men and masculinity and then suggests how insights taken from Men's Studies might help to broaden gender analysis and enrich the study of the South African ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2637466.pdf

Of boys and men: masculinity and gender in Southern African studies

(1983). Marxism, feminism and South African studies. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 139-171.

Marxism, Feminism and South African Studies

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983.

Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945

Using oral accounts of their personal histories, this book recounts the lives and experiences of 22 black South African women, all born before 1915, from one small town in the Western Transvaal. This approach gives a unique insight into the history of South Africa in the twentieth century, as well as into the lives and world views of the unknown women who have been part of that history. North America: Heinemann

Belinda Bozzoli

Papers

Marxism, Feminism and South African Studies

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983.

Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983

Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives