An exploration of black women students’ sexual experiences

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dc.contributor.authorChengeta, Gorata
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-06T15:09:08Z
dc.date.available2019-03-06T15:09:08Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionA research report submitted in fulfilment of the partial requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Department of Political Studies, 2018en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn this research report, I critique the use of consent as a standard for differentiating between harmful/unacceptable and harmless/acceptable sexual experiences. Central to my investigation are the relationship between consent and power. Using material from interviews I conducted with eight Black women situated at Wits University, I analyze three main issues. I first analyze the political implications of emotion, arguing for a recognition of the role emotion plays in regards to sexual consenting practice. I then discuss the connection between bodies and language in discourses on sex, gender, sexuality and violence. I explore this through two frames: first, how Black women’s bodies are read through a sexualizing lens and then, through an exploration of the possibilities of communicating consent through non-verbal language. Thirdly, I look at the complexity of meaning making practices, pertaining to experiences of unwanted sex. I make the argument that consent models of understanding sexual violence are inadequate, due to the way they conflate desire and consent, as well as consent and harmlessness. I also make an argument for prioritizing women’s understandings of their sexual experiences, over legal understandings of these experiencesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianXL2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (97 pages)
dc.identifier.citationChengeta, Gorata (2018) An exploration of black women university students' sexual experiences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, https://hdl.handle.net/10539/26500
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/26500
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshSexual consent--Political aspects
dc.subject.lcshPower (Social sciences)
dc.subject.lcshSex--Political aspects
dc.titleAn exploration of black women students’ sexual experiencesen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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