Gender brochure.FH10 - PULP

All the chapters in this volume in
one way or another, reflect on
change and transformation and
how these changes and transformations
affect our sexed and
gendered lives. The continuance
of binaries, and objectifications
and the maintenance of patriarchy
notwithstanding these
changes are teased out in various
themes by the different authors.
The contributions expose how
new approaches to how we live
sex and gender do not necessarily manage to break or
even radically challenge the old. From new technologies
that can ‘transform’ gender, to new forms of
pornography, freedom of sexual orientation, the creation
of shopping malls, attempts to understand reproductive
choices, restorative justice as response to sexual violence,
women’s testimonies, and women’s mobility - all
attempts are still hindered by conventional frameworks,
structures and thought. A central call that emerges
from all the contributions is one for more theory and
more gender sensitive research and more listening to
previously silenced voices.
Comments from the reviewers
From the discussion of ‘gentleman’s
pornography’ to the consideration of
women’s travel needs in a develop-ment
context, and Stephen Cohen’s performance
art, the contributions are firmly anchored
in our own context and frame of
reference.
- Louise du Toit,
University of Johannesburg
The standard and academic merit
of the contributions to this book
bodes well for gender research in
South Africa in future.
- Irma Kroeze,
Unisa
Contents
Introduction - Towards a Politics of Living
Karin van Marle
I Continuances: Binaries, objectifications
and capitalist consumption
One / Technology and Transsexuality: Secret
Alliances
Amanda du Preez
Two / Exhibiting the Expulsion of Transgression
Rory du Plessis
Three / The Aspirational Aesthetics of
‘Gentlemen’s Pornography’
Stella Viljoen
Four / Shopping for Gender
Jeanne van Eeden
II Women’s lives: Agency, stories and
testimony
Five / Agency Amidst Adversity: Poverty and
Women’s Reproductive Lives
Kammila Naidoo
Six / Engendering Mobility: Towards Improved
Gender Analysis in the Transport Sector
Christo Venter, Mac Mashiri and Denise Buiten
Seven / Domestic Violence in South Africa: A
Restorative Justice Response
Jean Triegaardt and Mike Batley
Eight / Tini’s Testimony: The Significance of a
Meticulously Recorded Case of Sexual Abuse
on a Transvaal Mission Station 1888 -1893
Lize Kriel
Index
(xiv 203pp)
ISBN: 0-9585097-5-1