Young Masculinities and Sexual Health in Southern Africa

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-74247-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa. It considers how socio-cultural and economic factors shape young men’s experiences of masculinity and the effects on relationship dynamics, gender norms and sexual health.

Through thematic chapters covering love, pleasure, social norms, risk, and HIV, the book emphasises the global importance of engaging young men in fostering gender equity and promoting healthier sexual practices. Readers will benefit from a diverse range of methodologies and perspectives that highlight the plurality and fluidity of masculinities, challenging monolithic accounts of young men in the region whilst illustrating the global relevance of understanding local contexts in shaping masculinities. The book provides valuable insights for developing effective sexual health interventions that recognise and embrace 'other' masculinities. Sexual health approaches that resonate with the lived realities of young men can potentially enhance young men’s engagement and participation in promoting healthier relationships and practices.

With important insights for theory, policy, and practice, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of critical masculinity studies, sexual and reproductive health, gender studies, and African studies, as well as policy makers, development practitioners, and activists.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhana, Deevia

Govender, Kaymarlin

Skovdal, Morten

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Young masculinities and sexual health: perspectives from Southern Africa  Part I: Love, pleasure and romance  2. Love, masculinity and alternative pathways to sexual health  3. Love as resistance? Young men’s narratives on intimate relationships and healthy sexualities in South Africa  4. Navigating love, romance and sexual health: adolescent boys' experiences in a South African township  Part II: Social norms, masculinity and health  5. Masculine norms and sexual health implications for young men in Zimbabwe  6. Exploring the intersection of young men’s mobile-internet use, gender attitudes and intimate relationship dynamics: a mixed-methods study  7. Streetwise masculinities: poverty, risk-taking and sexual health in a South African township  8. Masculinities in transition: young trans men, gender and the South African health care system  Part III: Masculinity and sexual risk  9. On the edge of a knife: young masculinity, poverty and sexual health  10. Amajita: masculinity and sexual risk among young men in a South African informal settlement  11. Mjolo, waithood and masculinities among out-of-school young men in Zimbabwe  12. Peer pressure and heterosexual norms among young black men in Somkhele, South Africa  Part IV: Masculinity and HIV  13. How young Zimbabwean men's attitudes towards female PrEP use depend on gender norms  14. HIV game-changers? A modified scoping review of adolescent boys and young men’s sexual health in the context of PrEP and ART in Southern Africa  15. Research with adolescent boys and young men living with HIV – reflections on ethical and methodological challenges in the Eastern Cape, South Africa  16. Theorising 'other' masculinities among adolescent boys and young men in Southern Africa: implications for sexual health

Über Autor(innen)

Deevia Bhana is a professor and South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Deevia Bhana has published over 170 scientific papers and book chapters in leading journals and press houses. Her latest co-edited book is Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa (2023, Routledge).

 

Morten Skovdal is a community health psychologist and professor of participatory health research at the University of Copenhagen. He has a particular interest in involving underserved and socially marginalised groups in research, both to challenge dominant narratives, and to attune interventions to their lived realities. His work is guided by social psychological theories and draws attention to the social and structural factors that affect health and promote psychosocial well-being and care in the community.

 

Kaymarlin Govender is a director of research at the HEARD Institute and a research professor in the College of Law and Management Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has more than 20 years of experience doing research, interventions and policy analysis with young and vulnerable populations on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has more than 130 scientific papers, book chapters and technical reports and has co-edited special issues from leading journals on HIV and sexual health. His most recent co-edited book is Preventing HIV Among Young People in Southern and Eastern Africa: Emerging Evidence and Intervention Strategies (2021, Routledge).