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2. Fun, flirtation and fear: Selfies in teenage girls digital exchange cultures.

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Janak, Raksha, Bhana, Deevia, and Reddy, Valerie

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*TEENAGE girls, *SELFIES, *DIGITAL technology, *DIGITAL images, *FLIRTING
Abstract

This paper explores teenage girls' engagement with digital images on social media. Using new feminist materialism, we foreground digital images as an assemblage of materialities (human and more‐than‐human) filled with affective potentials that materialise in/capacities. Drawing from interviews and focus group discussions, we show how the production and sharing of selfies through posting and sexting unlocked new ‘becomings’ through expressions of heterosexual desirability and pleasure but also generated fear through sexual objectification, sexual double standards and harassment. A recognition of digital images as materially embodied through which unequal gender power relations materialise is vital to addressing online sexual risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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5. ‘Becoming manly’: white South African defence force veterans negotiating masculinity

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Janak, Raksha, Bhana, Deevia, Marculitis, James, and Buccus, Imraan

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ABSTRACTThis study examines how white South African men reflect on their experiences of being and becoming army veterans, while negotiating masculinity. In the context of ‘high apartheid’, Afrikaner domination of the socio-political landscape, ethnic and racialised inequalities, the veterans negotiated being white English-speaking men through reflecting on, critiquing and disassociating from military masculinity. An English South African masculinity was upheld by distancing from Afrikaner domination and values, violence and compulsory heterosexuality. These findings suggest that while a military masculinity offered men a powerful template to assert their authority as white men, such power was nuanced by English South Africans’ relative political impotence, the domination of Afrikaans as a language and illustrates the heterogeneity in the experience of white veteran masculinity under apartheid. At the same time, however, white English veterans were complicit in and benefitted from whiteness and the power accrued in the country by virtue of race, class and history of British colonialism. We argue that the experience of being and becoming conscripts and the reflection on military masculinity directs attention to the ways in which broader social and political contexts have effects for the shaping of masculinity reflecting hierarchies of power and fluidity.

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2024
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7. Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school.

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Janak, Raksha and Bhana, Deevia

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*SOCIALIZATION, *HUMAN sexuality, *RESEARCH methodology, *SELF-perception, *INTERVIEWING, *PSYCHOLOGY of women, *SCHOOLS, *PLAY, *RESEARCH funding, *PSYCHOLOGY of school children, *STUDENT attitudes
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Inspired by new feminist materialism, this paper seeks to reimagine existing knowledge of girls, sexuality and playgrounds by considering how the socio‐material reality may unlock girls' capacities for what is possible through play. Focusing on semi‐structured interviews of girls (aged 12–13), the paper draws attention to the playground as an 'assemblage' of human and non‐human matter that connect to illuminate other ways of being, feeling and doing. We argue that the assemblage not only creates spaces for girls to disrupt hetero‐patriarchal ideologies but simultaneously serves to reinforce them. Interventions require attention to the oppressive materialities that underpin play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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