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Towards Gender Equality: South African Schools during the HIV and AIDS Epidemic
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Price: R 150
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978 1 86914 175 2
Width: 150
Height: 230
Pages: 256


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Review by Rob Pattman
Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch
Gender and Education, 23:3, 360-361

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has raised concerns about gender inequalities, how these may contribute to unsafe sexual practices and how, too, these may be addressed in education. Written by academics with a wealth of experience of research and activism in the field of gender, sexuality, HIV/AIDS and schooling in South Africa and elsewhere, Towards Gender Equality: South African Schools During the HIV and AIDS Epidemic is an important and timely book which critically explores the success or otherwise of particular schools in South Africa, the country with the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS-infected people in the world, in engaging with gender inequalities in the context of the pandemic.
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Since the democratic elections in 1994, there have been concerted efforts to redress race and gender inequalities in South Africa. Learners and teachers have responded in their own ways to change and this nuanced analysis reveals their struggles to realise gender equality by living gender differently.

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