Debates on human agency, especially female and sexual agency, have permeated the
social scientific literature and health educational practice for multiple decades now. This …

How is the agency of women best conceptualised in highly coercive settings? We explore
this in the context of international efforts to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against …

The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary
critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as …

This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the
special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and …

ABSTRACT Drawing on Rich's [Rich, A. 2004.“Reflections on 'Compulsory
Heterosexuality.'.” Journal of Women's History 16: 9–11; Rich, A. 1980.“Compulsory …

This article makes the argument that representations of gendered and sexual violence, its
perniciousness and its persistence need to be traced historically, not just to the recent …

Twenty-five years into South Africa's constitutional democracy provides an opportunity to
take stock of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health. Those born in …

Intimate partner violence is increasingly recognised as occurring not only between
heterosexual partners but also in same-sex relationships. Heterogendered relationship …

Democratic South Africa post-1994 boasts an impressive constitutional and legal
commitment to human rights, including the enshrinement of sexual and gender rights …

Drawing on two years of fieldwork, this article focuses on the lived experiences of women
detained inside Rome's Identification and Expulsion Center, the main migration-related …