Sex Gender Becoming: Post-Apartheid Reflections
Edited by Karin van Marle
2006
ISBN: 0-9585097-5-1
Pages: 203
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
All the chapters in this volume in one way or another reflect on change and transformation and how these changes/ transformations affect our sexed and gendered lives. The continuance of binaries, and objectifications and the maintenance of patriarchy notwithstanding these changes are teased out in various themes by the different authors. The contributions expose also how new approaches to how we live sex and gender do not necessarily manage to break or even radically challenge the old.
From new technologies that can 'transform' gender, to new forms of pornography, freedom of sexual orientation, the creation of shopping malls, attempts to understand reproductive choices, restorative justice as response to sexual violence, women's testimonies, and women's mobility - all attempts are still hindered by conventional frameworks, structures and thought. A central call that emerges from all the contributions is one for more theory and more gender sensitive research and more listening to previously silenced voices.
Comments from the reviewers:
- From the discussion of 'gentleman's pornography' to the consideration of women's travel needs in a development context, and Stephen Cohen's performance art, the contributions are firmly anchored in our own context and frame of reference.
- Louise du Toit, University of Johannesburg - I would like in conclusion to remark that the standard and academic merit of the contributions to this book bodes well for gender research in South Africa in future.
- Irma Kroeze, Unisa
About the editor:
Karin van Marle is Professor at the Department of Legal History, Comparitive Law and Jurisprudence, at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Towards a Politics of Living
Karin van Marle
I. Continuances: Binaries, objectifications and Capitalist Consumption
- 1. Technology and Trans sexuality: Secret Alliances
Amanda du Preez - 2. Exhibiting the Expulsion of Transgression
Rory du Plessis - 3. The Aspirational Aesthetics of ‘Gentlemen’s Pornography’
Stella Viljoen - 4. Shopping for Gender
Jeanne van Eeden
II. Women’s lives: Agency, Stories and Testimony
- 5. Agency Amidst Adversity: Poverty and Women’s Reproductive Lives
Kammi la Naidoo - 6. Engendering Mobility: Towards Improved Gender Analysis in the Transport Sector
Christo Venter, Mac Mashiri and Denise Buiten - 7. Domestic Violence in South Africa: A Restorative Justice Response
Jean Triegaardt and Mike Batley - 8. Tini’s Testimony: The Significance of a Meticulously Recorded Case of Sexual Abuse on a Transvaal Mission Station 1888 – 1893
Lize Kriel
List of Sources
Contributors
Index