“I Cannot Fall Pregnant!”

IF 0.4 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.3167/ghs.2023.160107

Kim Heyes, Benedicte Brahic, A. Ramnund‐Mansingh, N. Ingram, S. Arun, M. Seedat‐Khan

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Abstract

Girls from single-parent households in South Africa (90 percent of whom are Black African or coloured) have significantly lower educational outcomes than other demographics. Through a methodology of life-history interviews, we explore the experiences of 30 women in single-headed households who have been successful in their educational endeavours as university students or graduates. Results show that pressures on girls from single-headed households to look after the family and domestic sphere and to protect their bodies from sexual abuse leave many girls depleted of the time, energy, and mental capacity required to study. Despite these challenges, these participants have escaped the perceived weight of their female burden in a post-apartheid, patriarchal society and reclaim their bodies and sense of agency through educational success.

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“我不能怀孕!”

来自南非单亲家庭的女孩(其中90%是非洲黑人或有色人种)的教育成果明显低于其他人口统计数据。通过生活史访谈的方法，我们探讨了30名单身家庭女性的经历，她们在大学或毕业生时期都取得了成功的教育努力。结果表明，单亲家庭的女孩在照顾家庭和家务以及保护自己的身体免受性虐待方面承受的压力，使许多女孩耗尽了学习所需的时间、精力和智力。尽管面临这些挑战，但这些参与者已经摆脱了后种族隔离、男权社会中女性负担的感知负担，并通过教育上的成功重新获得了她们的身体和能力感。

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Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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1.10

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls'' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines. The mission of the journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reflection, historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to curriculum design and policy-making. Topics addressed within the journal include girls and schooling, girls and feminism, girls and sexuality, girlhood in the context of Boyhood Studies, girls and new media and popular culture, representation of girls in different media, histories of girlhood, girls and development.