Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus

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dc.contributor.authorShefer, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorClowes, Lindsay
dc.contributor.authorVergnani, Tania
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-11T14:07:00Z
dc.date.available2013-09-11T14:07:00Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractGiven the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study with a group of students at a South African university, drawing on narratives that speak to the dynamics of reportedly widespread transactional sex on campus. Since many of these relationships are inscribed within unequal power dynamics across the urban-rural and local-�foreigner� divides, and across differences of wealth, age and status that intersect with gender in multiple, complex ways, it is argued that these may be exacerbating unsafe and coercive sexual practices among this group of young people. The paper further argues for a critical, reflexive position on transactional sex, pointing to the way in which participants articulate a binaristic response to transactional relationships that simultaneously serves to reproduce a silencing of a discourse on female sexual desires, alongside a simplistic and deterministic picture of masculinity underpinned by the male sexual drive discourse.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationShefer, T., et al.(2012). Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus. Culture, Health and Sexuality: an international journal for research, intervention and care,14(4): 435-447en_US
dc.identifier.issn1369-1058
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/714
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author's final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source. The published item is copyright Taylor & Francis
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2012.664660
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectTransactional sexen_US
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.subjectUniversityen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleNarratives of transactional sex on a university campusen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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