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Research Articles (Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G))
Recent Submissions
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Hodes, Rebecca; Reznek, Rodney H.
(UCL Press, 2024)
This article traces how historical constructions of Jews – informed by
protean notions of social, cultural, and physical difference in Europe –
were transplanted into the colonial imagination, infusing the writings ...
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Hodes, Rebecca
(UCL Press, 2024-01-12)
In her article “Scholarship on South African Jews: state of the field”,
Shirli Gilbert offers a sweeping yet meticulous account of scholarship
on South African Jews beginning on 9 July 1905 when Dr. Joseph Herman
Hertz, ...
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Frizelle, Kerry; Brouard, Pierre
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education, 2024-10-02)
South African universities are in the midst of rising sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). In the face
of a lack of wider institutional commitment to effectively tackle the issue, we have seen an increase in calls
to ...
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Gittings, Lesley; Colvin, Christopher; Hodes, Rebecca
(Routledge, 2023-01)
Men are less vulnerable to HIV acquisition than women, but have poorer HIV-related health outcomes. They access HIV services less, and are more likely to die on antiretroviral therapy. The adolescent epidemic presents ...
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Gittings, Lesley; Colvin, Christopher J.; Hodes, Rebecca
(Wiley, 2022-09)
Adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV are among the first generation in South Africa to grow up with anti-retroviral therapy and democratic freedoms. In this article, we explore the biosocial lives of adolescent ...
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Mawere, Tinashe
(Unisa Press, 2022)
As the source of all food production, land in southern Africa has been highly contested. Using a variety of texts that express themes relating to land, I show that in Zimbabwe, in the face of massive political competition, ...
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Hodes, Rebecca
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-08)
This article explores the reception of the contraceptive implant, Implanon, by healthcare workers and patients in family planning units in South Africa’s public health sector. Based on observations conducted at public ...
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Evans, Henri-Count; Mawere, Tinashe
(Routledge, 2021)
Gay or queer relationships in Zimbabwe remain a site of discursive contestation. The rise in human rights advocacy has re/located the subject within the human rights premise, shifting the discussions away but not disconnected ...
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Reddy, Vasu; Crewe, Mary
(Routledge, 2020)
This interview engages Mary Crewe, founding Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS, now known as the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, at the University of Pretoria, by tapping into her archive, representing ...
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Kamga, Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem
(University of the Free State, 2019)
The paper examines the state’s response to students’
claim for free education that has rocked South African
tertiary institutions since 2015. These responses
have been characterised by the enforcement of a
de facto ...
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Bhana, Deevia; Crewe, Mary; Aggleton, Peter
(Routledge, 2019)
No abstract available.
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Thokoane, Charmaine
(Routledge, 2015-03)
This article describes challenges of conducting an HIV prevention program involving 40 male and
female participants ages 12–18 in Hammanskraal, South Africa, aimed at increasing awareness and
knowledge of laws protecting ...
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Adams, Julie L.; Hansen, Nathan B.; Fox, Ashley M.; Taylor, Baishakhi B.; Van Rensburg, Madri J.; Mohlahlane, Rakgadi; Sikkema, Kathleen J.
(SAGE, 2011-08)
Gender-based violence increases a woman’s risk for HIV but little is known about her
decision to get tested. We interviewed 97 women seeking abuse-related services from
a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Johannesburg, ...
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Sikkema, Kathleen J.; Neufeld, Sharon A.; Hansen, Nathan B.; Mohlahlane, Rakgadi; Jansen Van Rensburg, Madri; Watt, Melissa H.; Fox, Ashley M.; Crewe, Mary
(Springer, 2009-10)
The relationship between intimate partner violence
(IPV) and HIV risk is well documented, but few
interventions jointly address these problems. We developed and examined the feasibility of an intervention to reduce HIV ...
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Fox, Ashley M.; Jackson, S.S.; Hansen, Nathan B.; Gasa, N.; Crewe, Mary; Sikkema, Kathleen J.
(2007-06)
This study qualitatively examines the intersections of risk for intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV infection in South Africa. Eighteen women seeking services for relationship violence were asked semistructured questions ...