Teaching Masculinities in a South African Classroom

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dc.contributor.authorClowes, Lindsay
dc.date.accessioned16/02/2017 14:07
dc.date.available16/02/2017 14:07
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn terms of gender equity the first two decades of South African democracy have seen substantial change - at least where legislation is concerned. In terms of daily lived realities however, such change seems to have had little or no impact. South African women continue to take primary responsibility for reproductive work and continue to dominate the ranks of the poor. Levels of gender based violence remain amongst the highest in the world. The last decade or so has seen scholars offer a range of overlapping and intersecting explanations for the slow pace of change, with some pointing to the lack of significant political commitment and the roles of 'custom' and 'tradition'. Others have suggested that change requires working more directly with boys and men. Despite these observations - and concomitant interventions - movement towards gender equity remains slow. In this paper I hope to contribute to the debate around resistance to change by drawing on student engagement with, and understandings of, an introduction to gender studies course between 2013 and 2014 at the University of the Western Cape. In the paper I reflect on ways in which teaching gender through a focus on men and masculinities offers insights into resistance to gender equity as well as possibilities for challenging such resistance.en_US
dc.identifier.citationClowes, L. (2015). Teaching Masculinities in a South African Classroom. CriSTaL, 3(2): 23-39en_US
dc.identifier.issn2310-7103
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2539
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.49
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This is the final publisher's version found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.49
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectTeachingen_US
dc.subjectMasculinityen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleTeaching Masculinities in a South African Classroomen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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