The demands for increasing openness about sexuality and gendered intimate relations are particularly striking in African societies struggling with HIV/AIDS. Openness and silence, however, can have multiple meanings in terms of emotions, agency, gender relations, power and governmentality. How are everyday lives and emotions shaped by new discourses of sexualities? The panel seeks to explore messages behind, and implications of, public policies and (global) discourses on sexual lives and acts.
When 'No' means more than 'No'! Some ethical issues in using
participatory research to facilitate girls' negotiation of sex in South African
rural schools
