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Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies: the 'Gender Refugee' and the imagined South Africa

Author: Camminga, Bianca Date: 2016 This thesis tracks the conceptual journeying of the term 'transgender' from the Global North - where it originated - along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa, and ... Read more
Creating personas, performing selves – gazing beyond the masks of drag and neo-burlesque performance

Author: Prince, Lindy-Lee Date: 2021 What if gender is not in the body, but happens to it through a combination of tangible and intangible means – through the coverings that mask, as well as the translations of and on the body? What if gender was malleable? If we cannot break ... Read more
Feeling difference: history, encounter and the affective life of a postcolonial neighbourhood

Author: Meer,Talia Date: 2019 In this dissertation I develop an account of Observatory, a neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa, and its fem (cis- and transwomen, feminine men and gender non-conforming) residents, to show how place history, personal identity and everyday ... Read more
Forced sexual experiences as risk factor for self-reported HIV infection among southern African lesbian and bisexual women

Author: Sandfort, Theo G M ; Baumann, Linda R M ; Matebeni, Zethu ; Reddy, Vasu ; Southey-Swartz, Ian Date: 2013 Even though women who have sex with women are usually understood to be at no or very low risk for HIV infection, we explored whether lesbian and bisexual women in a geographical area with high HIV prevalence (Southern Africa) get tested for ... Read more c b
Histories of forced sex and health outcomes among Southern African lesbian and bisexual women: a cross-sectional study

Author: Sandfort, Theo ; Frazer, M ; Matebeni, Zethu ; Reddy, Vasu ; Southey-Swartz, Ian ; Southern African Lesbian and Bisexual Women Research Team Date: 2015 BACKGROUND: Experiences of forced sex have been shown to be prevalent in Southern Africa. Negative outcomes of forced sex have been documented in general populations of women and men and include alcohol abuse, drug use, mental health problems, ... Read more c b
In conversation: the politics of sex/the sex of politics

Author: Van der Westhuizen, Christi ; Matebeni, Zethu Date: 19 Jun 2014 How is space in South Africa’s democracy being carved by and for women and men who do not conform to gender ideas inherited from apartheid? Dr Christi van der Westhuizen, feminist, author, award-winning political columnist and research associate ... Read more c b n d
Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town

Author: Holland-Muter, Susan Date: 2018 This thesis explores the different modes and meanings of queer world making (QWM) of lesbians in Cape Town. Through an analysis of in depth interviews and focus groups it reveals lesbians' constructions of their intersectional and permeable ... Read more
"The more you stretch them, the more they grow": same-sex marriage and the wrestle with heteronormativity

Author: Scott, Lwando Date: 2019 With the understanding that marriage is a historically heteronormative institution that was (and in many respects continues to be) underpinned by heteronormativity, in this doctoral thesis I engage the ways that same-sex couples wrestle with ... Read more