Methodologies for mapping a southern African girlhood in the age of AIDS / / Relebohile Moletsane [and three others].

• Superior document: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
• VerfasserIn: Moletsane, Relebohile,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; Volume 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids is located within the new and broader area of Girlhood Studies. Girls have long been considered a rich feminist memory-site for examining the genesis of women’s sense of self in the developed world. To date, however, only a few scholars have focused on Southern African girlhoods. Even fewer focus on methodologies for researching girlhood. This is despite the particular vulnerability of girls to gender-based violence and HIV and Aids, and the relative complexity of doing research with girls in diverse cultural contexts in this region. Thus, the book aims to take this agenda forward and to investigate a range of participatory methodological and theoretical approaches that can be adapted to study girls and girlhood in Southern Africa. These methodologies, which look at research with girls, about girls and for girls, include policy research, writing, fictional practice, and visual arts-based methods, to be used as analytical tools that should, can, and have been used to examine the lives of girls, particularly in the age of HIV and Aids in Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Introduction / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Girls in/and development: New methodologies for researching Southern African girlhoods in the era of Aids / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Negotiating cultural spaces in researching girlhood in the context of Aids in Southern Africa / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Pinky Pinky and toilets: Disrupting the silences around sexual violence in and around schools through photo-voice / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Speaking the unspeakable: Working with girls through participatory video to uncover issues of incest / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Writing girlhood in the context of Aids / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Girl Power in Nervous conditions: Girls and girlhood in fictional practice / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Policy frameworks on gender-based violence in schools and communities / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- “Do least harm”: Ethical considerations in researching Southern African girlhoods in the context of gender-based violence and Aids / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Girlhood matters and African feminisms: Towards an agenda for research with, about, and for girl / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Notes / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- References / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Index / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm -- Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education / Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann Smith and Linda Chisholm.