Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman African Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga Empire and Colonialism, Trans

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.

Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa

By Marc Epprecht African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Class shame hinging upon perceived sexual immorality is an often overlooked element of anti-colonial/apartheid politics in South Africa.

Abortion Under Apartheid

By Nicole Bourbonnais African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

During apartheid (1948-1990), abortion was often used as a political tool.

Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

By Sarah Emily Duff African Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity

The purpose of sex education for most of the century was conservative.