Gender, sexuality and development : : education and society in Sub-Saharan Africa / / edited by Mairead Dunne.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dunne, Máiréad,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book provides a timely contribution to the field of gender and development in the face of the looming failure of international development targets, the deepening HIV/AIDS pandemic and the increased incidence of civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa. The overall ambition of the collection is to question assumptions behind much development policy and practice and to push out conceptual boundaries by providing critical insights from local empirical studies that bring new theoretical configurations to specific policy and practice contexts. The chapter contributions are from African and ‘Northern’ writers who have critically engaged with the ways that gendered and sexual identities are produced in particular educational and social settings in this diverse continent. After providing a consolidation of the field, the book highlights its departures from earlier work on gender, education, society and development to open spaces that provide a springboard for further research and critique around persistent and enduring development issues. Following two introductory chapters, the text is organised in four main sections concerning gendered institutions, sexual identities, HIV/AIDS and conflict. In addressing such critical issues, this edited collection is essential reading for professionals, policy-makers, practitioners and students from a wide range of institutions including government departments, international agencies, NGOs and universities in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as in other low and high income countries worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Máiréad Dunne -- Introduction / Máiréad Dunne -- Gender, sexuality and development: Key issues in education and society in Sub-Saharan Africa / Sara Humphreys , Chi-Chi Undie and Máiréad Dunne -- The schooling of girls in early 19th century Sierra Leone / Fiona Leach -- Gender, sexuality and schooling: Everyday life in junior secondary schools in Botswana and Ghana / Máiréad Dunne -- ‘I invited her to my office’: Normalising sexual violence in a Nigerian college of education / Salihu Bakari and Fiona Leach -- Multiple masculinities in the Botswana classroom / Sara Humphreys -- Indian girls and the construction of boys, sexuality and race in South Africa / Deevia Bhana and Rob Pattman -- Two teachers: male, black, queer. Negotiating identities in South Africa / Eric M. Richardson and Brent E. Archer -- The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Ghanaian Schoolgirls’ Family Relationships / Linda Dzama Forde and Warren Hope -- Addressing HIV and AIDS: A review of policy and interventions in Eastern and Southern Africa / Changu Mannathoko -- Heterosexual masculinities in the South African context of HIV/AIDS / Shakila Reddy and Máiréad Dunne -- Teacher identity and the challenge of teaching about, and within, the context of HIV/AIDS / Jean Baxen -- Teaching human sexuality in higher education: A case from Western Kenya / Jennifer Wanjiku Khamasi and Chi-Chi Undie -- Gender, sexuality and education: Examining issues in conflict contexts / Jackie Kirk -- Gender and conflict in northern Uganda / Carolyne Dennis and Alicia Fentiman -- Girls in a post-conflict setting: Males, education, and girl-to-girl bonding / Donna Sharkey -- Forced migration and cultural transformation: Renegotiating the gendered self in Northern Sudan / Rogaia Mustaf Abusharaf -- List of contributors / Máiréad Dunne.