Hames, Mary2013-02-192013-02-192010Hames, M. (2010). Se(x)ation, sensation or research? interrogating the research gaze. Buwa! 1(1): 53-55http://hdl.handle.net/10566/544This article takes a critical look at the research methodologies regarding gender-based violence and HIV and AIDS in South Africa over the last two decades. Gender has become the operative term in these research projects and there has been a conflation or collapse of gender with the feminist perspectives analysis. The immediate question is whether the studies on gender and masculinities have de-politiced feminist research and methodologies or whether it has enhanced the work of feminists. This is undoubtedly a loaded argument that has been on the minds of feminists and those who claim to support feminist theory and praxis.enThis is the author postprint version of an article published by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. The file may be freely used, provided that acknowledgement of the source is given.Research on womenFeminist perspectiveSouth AfricaArticle