Deevia Bhana
Deevia Bhana
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Profile
Deevia Bhana is the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality. She has written extensively on the experience of gender and sexuality in the young life course bringing a broad interdisciplinary social science lens to understanding how gender and sexuality is experienced by children and young people and the implications thereof for addressing violence, sex education and sexual health interventions. In addressing an area of high significance, the research contributes to a reconceptualization of childhood sexuality in a nascent field of study with significant practical value in expanding children and young people’s sexual agency, sexual knowledge and their right to sexual safety with a focus on the role that education plays in shaping decisions, policies and structures that impact on sexual well-being and gender equality.
Her distinctive contributions and impact are reflected in several international keynotes, invited talks and her active role in science engagement. She collaborates with researchers across the social sciences including Women and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Education. Her publications, include 11 books, and over 147 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her work appears in leading journals such as AIDS Education & Prevention; British Educational Research Journal; British Journal of Sociology of Education; Gender & Education; International Journal of Educational Development; International Journal of Inclusive Education; Journal of Southern African Studies; Sexualities; Social Science and Medicine, Youth Studies.
She has authored five books and is a co-author of two books. The latest authored book is entitled Girls and the Negotiation of Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality (In press, Routledge). She has co-edited four books. Her latest co-edited books are Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (2021, Palgrave Macmillan) and Sex and Sexualities, Sexual Health and Justice: Perspectives from Southern Africa (In press, Routledge).
As the SARChI Chair Deevia Bhana is actively involved in supervising a large cohort of students and has a significant impact in building the research profile of the next generation of young scholars in the field.
She is the recipient of several awards. The latest award is the Medal for Social Sciences and Humanities from the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Universities South Africa (USAf): Established Researcher in April 2022.
Deevia Bhana is an NRF B1 Rated Researcher.
Publications
Books
- Bhana, D. (2022). Girls and the Negotiation of Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Girls-Negotiating-Porn-in-South-Africa-Power-Play-and-Sexuality/Bhana/p/book/9781032028897
- Bhana, D., Crewe, M., & Aggleton, P. (Eds.). (2022). Sex and Sexualities, Sexual Health and Justice: Perspectives from Southern Africa(pp. 232). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003139782/sex-sexuality-sexual-health-southern-africa-deevia-bhana-mary-crewe-peter-aggleton
- Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (Eds.). (2021). Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (pp.299). Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-69988-8
- Bhana, D. (2018). Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa: 16 Turning 17 (pp. 168). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Love-Sex-and-Teenage-Sexual-Cultures-in-South-Africa-16-turning-17/Bhana/p/book/9781138235274
- Pillay, V., Mitra vom Berg, N., Bhana, D., Guimaraes Mattos, C., & Almedia de Castro, P. (2017). Academic Mothers in the Developing World: Stories from Women in India, Brazil and South Africa (pp. 196). Africa World Press. http://africaworldpressbooks.com/academic-mothers-in-the-developing-world-stories-from-india-brazil-and-south-africa-by-v-pillay-n-mitra-van-berg-d-bhana-c-guimaraes-de-mattos-p-almeida-de-castro-hardcover
- Mkhwanazi, N., & Bhana, D. (Eds.). (2017). Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care(pp. 220). HSRC Press. http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?productid=2356
- Bhana, D. (2016). Gender and childhood sexuality in the primary school (pp. 229). Springer. http://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811022388
- Bhana, D. (2016). Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education: The Price of Innocence(pp. 164). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Childhood-Sexuality-and-AIDS-Education-The-Price-of-Innocence/Bhana/p/book/9781138853003
- Bhana, D. (2014). Under Pressure: The Regulation of Sexualities in South Africa Secondary Schools (pp. 720). MaThoko’s Books. https://www.google.co.za/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=isbn:1920590587
- Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (Eds.).(2012). Books and/or Babies. Pregnancy and young parents at school(pp. 256). HSRC Press. http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?productid=2288
- Morrell, R., Epstein, D., Unterhalter, E., Bhana, D., & Moletsane, R. (2009). Towards Equality? Gender in South African schools during the HIV/AIDS pandemic (pp. 256). University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukzn_books&method=view_books&global[fields][_id]=337
Chapters in Books
- Bhana, D. Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Young Masculinity, Cultural Relevance and Context Matters (2022). In: Tierney R, Rizvi F and Erkican K (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Education, 4th edition. Elsevier Science.
- Bhana, D & Salvi, F. (2022) Inhlawulo, Kin and Custom: Young men negotiating fatherhood and respectable masculinity. In: E. Moore (Ed.). Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa. Routledge.
- Bhana, D. (2022). ‘Porn Blockers’: Panic, Protection and Possibilities in conceptualising gender and childhood sexuality in South Africa. In: Lingham, L., & Mkhwanazi, N. (Eds.). ‘Mapping Gender Faultlines: Digital Technologies and Society’. Routledge.
- Bhana, D., Yankah, E & Aggleton, P. (2021). Sexual Literacy and Health: A Global Challenge. In Gilbert Herdt, Michelle Marzullo & Nicole Polen (Eds.) Critical Sexual Literacy: Forecasting Trends in Sexual Politics, Diversity and Pedagogy (pp. 259 – 266). Anthem Press.
- Bhana, D. (2021). Race, gender and sexuality in South African teenage girls’ construction of ‘porn stars’. In: Blaikie, F. (Ed.). Global perspectives on youth and young adults: Situated, embodied and performed ways of being, engaging and belonging (pp.122 – 138). Routledge.
- Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (2021). Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Education—A Three-Ply Yarn Approach. In: Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (Eds.). Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (pp. 1 – 46). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Mayeza, E, & Bhana, D. (2021). “Other” Boys Contesting Hegemonic Masculinities and Violence in the Primary School. In: Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (Eds.). Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (pp. 47 – 67). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Govender, N., & Bhana, D. (2021). Girls and the Negotiation of Heterosexual Femininities in the Primary School. In: Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (Eds.). Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (pp. 113 – 133). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bhana, D. (2021). Desire and Distress: Girls Growing Up and Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Harassment in the Primary School. In: Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (Eds.). Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (pp. 135 – 158). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Pattman, R., & Bhana, D. (2021). Hair-Raising and Makeup Interviews with Young People in a High School: Gender, Race and Sexuality. In: Bhana, D., Singh, S., & Msibi, T. (Eds.). Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (pp. 203 – 222). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bhana, D. (2021). Girls’ sexuality between agency and vulnerability. In: Yacob-Haliso, O., & Falola, T. (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (pp. 2339-2352). Palgrave MacMillan.
- Bhana, D., Xu, Y., & Emilsen, K. (2021). Masculinity, Sexuality and Resistance. In: Brody, D., Rohrmann, T., Emilsen K., & Warin, J. (Eds.). Exploring Career Trajectories of Men in the Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce: Why They Leave and Why They Stay (pp.138-150). Routledge.
- Bhana, D. (2020). “Little boys”: The significance of early childhood in the making of masculinities. In: L, Gottzén., U, Mellström., & T, Shefer. (Eds.). Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (pp. 174-182). Routledge.
- Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (2020). Gender, Culture and Sexuality: Young People’s Conceptualisation of ‘Queer’ in South Africa. In: Kjaran, J.I., & Sauntson, H. (Eds.). Schools as Queer Transformative Spaces: Global Narratives on Sexualities and Gender (pp. 158-177). Routledge.
- Bhana, D. (2018). Research under surveillance: sexuality and gender-based research with children in South Africa. In: Lamb, S., & Gilbert J. (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development Childhood and Adolescence (pp. 369-386). Cambridge University Press.
- Bhana, D. (2017). Anisa’s Story: Being and becoming a teenage mother in an Indian Community. In: Mkhwanazi, N., & Bhana, D. (Eds.). Young families: gender, sexuality and care (pp.53-64). HSRC Press.
- Mkhwanazi, N., & Bhana, D. (2017). Understanding young families. In: Mkhwanazi N., & Bhana, D. (Eds.). Young families: gender, sexuality and care (pp. 3-16). HSRC Press.
- Bhana, D. (2017). Childhood Sexualities in Africa: Agency and Vulnerability. In: Ofosu-Kusi, Y. (Ed.). Children’s agency and development in African societies (pp.65-76). Codesria.
- Bhana, D. (2017). Sexualities and gender-based research in youth studies. In: Furlong, A. (Ed.). Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood. 2nd Edition. (pp. 339-346). Routledge.
- Pattman, R., & Bhana, D. (2017). Learning from the learners: how research with young people can provide models of good pedagogic practice in sexuality education in South Africa. In: Allen, L., & Rasmussen, M.L. (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education (pp. 191-210). Palgrave MacMillan.
- Bhana, D. (2016). Masculinities, femininities and the burden of culture among rural South African teenagers in the context of HIV. In: Liamputtong, P. (Ed.). Children, Young People Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 127-145). Springer.
- Bhana, D. (2016). Steeling the junior body: learning sport and masculinities in the early years. In: Coffey, J., Budgeon, S., & Cahill, H. (Eds.). Learning bodies (pp.53-68). Springer.
- Bhana, D. (2015). “Istabane” South African teenagers and the regulation of sexuality, gender and culture. In: Renold, E., Ringrose J., & Egan, D. (Eds.). Children, Sexuality and the Sexualisation of Culture (pp.193-207). Palgrave.
- Bhana, D. (2015). Learning gender in the early years in South Africa. In: Wyn, J., Cahill, H., & Farrelly, A. (Eds). Handbook on Childhood and Youth (pp.279-288). Springer.
- Bhana, D. (2014). Loving and Fearing: Township girls’ agency amidst sexual risk. In: Pereira, C. (Ed.). Changing Narratives of Sexuality: Contestations, Compliance and Women’s Empowerment (pp. 87-110). Zed Books.
- Bhana, D., & Singh, S. (2012). Gender, Sexuality and HIV and AIDS Education in South Africa. In: Wiseman A., & Glover, R. (Eds.). Education HIV and AIDS Education Worldwide (pp. 213 – 230). Emerald Publishing.
- Bhana, D., & Ngabaza, S. (2012). Teacher responses to pregnancy and young parents in schools. In: Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (Eds.). Books and/or babies Pregnancy and young parents in schools (pp. 49-62). HSRC Press.
- Shefer T., Bhana D., Morrell R., Manzini N., & Masuku, N. (2012). It isn’t easy’ – Young parents talk of their school experiences. In: Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (Eds.). Books and/or babies Pregnancy and young parents in schools, (pp. 127-148). HSRC Press.
- Morrell, R., Bhana D. & Shefer, T. (2012). Pregnancy and parenthood in South African Schools. In: Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (Eds.). Books and/or babies Pregnancy and young parents in schools (pp.1-30). HSRC Press.
- Bhana, D. (2012). Principals, teachers and the ‘problem’ of pregnancy and parenting. In: Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (Eds.). Books and/or babies Pregnancy and young parents in schools (pp.31-34). HSRC Press.
- Bhana, D., Shefer, T., & Morrell R. (2012). Conclusion: Policy Implications and issues for the future. In: Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Shefer, T. (Eds.). Books and/or babies Pregnancy and young parents in schools (pp. 169-176). HSRC Press.
- Morrell, R., Bhana, D., & Hamlall, V. (2012). “I’m not scared of the teacher- I can hold him – I can hold him with my bare hands.” School boys, male teachers and physical violence at a Durban Secondary School in South Africa. In: Saltmarsh, S., Robinson, K.H., & Davies, C. (Eds.). Rethinking school violence: Context, gender and theory (pp.94-114). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bhana, D. (2011). How South African teachers construct gender in the early years of schooling. In: Irby, B., & Brown, G. (Eds.). Gender and Early Learning Environments (pp.95-108). Information Age Publishing.
- Bhana, D. (2009). “Girls hit!” Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working-class primary school. In: Dillabough, J., MacLeod, J., & Mills, M. (Eds.). Troubling Gender in Education (pp.96 -110). Routledge.
- Pattman, R., & Bhana, D. (2009). Colouring sexualities: How some black South African schoolgirls respond to ‘racial’ and gendered inequalities. In: Steyn, M., & Van Zyl, M. (Eds.). The Prize and the Price: Shaping Sexualities in South Africa (pp.21-38). HSRC Press.
- Bhana, D., Morrell, R., & Pattman, R. (2009). Gender and Education in developing contexts: Postcolonial reflections on Africa. In: Cowen, R., & Kazamias, A. (Eds.). Handbook of International and Comparative Education (pp.703-713). Springer.
- Bhana, D., & Pattman, R. (2008). “Indian girls and the construction of boys, sexuality and race”. In: Dunne, M. (Ed.). Gender Sexuality and development: education and society in sub-Saharan Africa (pp.103-117). Sense Publishers.
- Unterhalter, E., North, A., Morrell, R., Bhana, D., Epstein, D., & Moletsane, R. (2008). Mobilizing the gender of care: Accounts of Gender equality, schooling and the HIV epidemic in Durban, South Africa. In: Aikman, S., Unterhalter, E., & Boler, T. (Eds.). Gender equality and HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the education sector (pp.150-169). Oxfam.
- Bhana, D. (2008). Children’s Sexual Rights in an Era of HIV/AIDS’. In: Cornwall, A., Correa, S., & Jolly S. (Eds.). Development with a Body: Making the Connections between Sexuality, Human Rights and Development (pp.77-86). Zed Books.
- Pattman, R., & Bhana, D. (2007). Invoking ‘Culture’ and ‘Sexuality’: Black Girls in Mixed ‘Race’ Schools in, Durban in R. Pattman., & S. Khan (Eds.). Undressing Durban (pp.343-362). Madiba Publishers.
- Bhana, D. (2006). “Doing Power”: Confronting violent masculinities in primary school. In: Leach, F., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). CombatingGender Violence in and around Schools (pp.171-179). Trentham Books.
- Bhana, D. (2005). Violence and the Gendered Negotiation of Masculinities Among young Black school Boys in South Africa. In: Ouzgane L., & Morrell R. (Eds.). African Masculinities (pp.205-220). Palgrave.
- Bhana, D. (2005). “Show me the panties”, Girls Play Games in the School Ground. In: Mitchell C., & Reid-Walsh, L. (Eds). Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood (pp.163-172). Peter Lang.
Journal Articles
- Bhana, D., Moosa, S., Xu, Y., & Emilsen, K (2022) Men in Early Childhood Education and Care: On navigating a gendered terrain. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2022.2074070
- Bhana, D (2022) Primary School Teachers Misrecognizing Trans Identities? Religious, Cultural and Decolonial Assemblages. Teachers College Record
- Mvune, N & Bhana, D. (2022) Caring Masculinities? Teenage Fathers in South Africa, Journal of Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2022.2048962
- Bhana, D & Nathwani, S. (2022). Teenage girls and the entanglement with Sexually Explicit Materials and Porn: A New Feminist Materialist Perspective. Agenda. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2021.2010582
- Bhana, D., Janak, R., Pillay, D., & Ramrathan, L. (2021). Masculinity and Violence: Gender, Poverty and Culture in a Rural Primary School in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102509
- Mayeza, E., Bhana, D. & Mulqueeny, D. (2021). Normalising violence? Girls and sexuality in a South African high school. Journal of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1881460
- Berriman, B., Bhana, D., Crafter, S., Robb, M & Xu, Y (2021) Engaging diversities in a changing world: a statement from the new editors of Children & Society. Children and Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12427
- Mayeza, E., & Bhana, D. (2021). Boys and bullying in primary school: Young masculinities and the negotiation of power. South African Journal of Education, 41(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v41n1a1858
- Kangaude, G., Bhana, D., & Skelton, A. (2020). ‘Childhood sexuality in Africa: A child rights perspective. African Human Rights Law Journal, 20, 688-712. https://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2020/v20n2a15
- Moosa, S. & Bhana, D. (2020). ‘Troubling men who teach young children’: Masculinity and the paedophilic threat. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2020.1818117
- Mayeza, E., & Bhana, D. (2020). Boys negotiate violence and masculinity in the primary school. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1721267
- Bhana, D., & Chen, H. (2019). ‘If you a bitch, we treat you like a bitch’: Teenage Boys’ Constructions of Heterosexual Masculinity. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2019.1668548
- McGrath, K., Van Bergen, P., Moosa, S., & Bhana, D. (2019).The plight of the male teacher: An interdisciplinary and multileveled theoretical framework for researching a shortage of male teachers. Journal of Men’s Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826519873860
- Moosa, S., & Bhana, D. (2019). Troubling the male role modelling theory: Male teachers as role models for girls?” European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2019.1678931
- Moosa, S., & Bhana, D. (2019).Men who teach young children: ‘you can never be too sure what their intentions might be’ Oxford Review of Education, 46(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2019.1644995
- Bhana, D., Crewe, M., & Aggleton, P. (2019). Sex and Sexuality Education in South Africa. Sex Education, 19(4), 361-370.https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2019.1620008
- Mayeza, E., & Bhana, D. (2020). How ‘real boys’ construct heterosexuality in the primary school playground. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2019.1675825
- Chen, H., Bhana, D., Anderson, B., & Buccus, I. (2019). Bruin Ous Are the Main Ous: Exploring ‘Coloured’ Masculinities in Durban’s Wentworth Township. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46(1), 73-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2020.1690324
- Moosa, S., & Bhana, D. (2019). Masculinity as care: men can teach young children in the early years. Early Years: An International Research Journal, 40(1), 52-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2019.1651697
- Carboni, C., & Bhana, D. (2019). Teenage girls negotiating femininity in the context of sexually explicit materials. Sex Education, 19(4), 371-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2019.1577730
- Bhana, D., & Mayeza, E. (2019). Primary Schoolgirls Addressing Bullying and Negotiating Femininity. Girlhood Studies, 12(2), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120208
- Mvune, N., Bhana, D., & Mayeza, E. (2019). Umhlalaphansi and Inkwari: Teenage men’s accounts on becoming fathers. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 21(2), 147–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2018.1459843
- Bhana, D., & Mayeza, E. (2019). ‘Cheese boys’ negotiating and resisting masculinity in the primary school. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 14(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2018.1494402
- Aggleton, P., Bhana, D., Clarke, D., Crewe, M., Race, K., & Yankah, E. (2018) HIV Education: Reflections on the Past, Priorities for the Future. AIDS Education and Prevention, 30(30), 254-266. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2018.30.3.254
- Bhana, D., & Pillay, J. (2018). Negotiating femininities on campus: sexuality, gender and risk in an HIV environment”. Health Education Journal, 77(8), 915-926. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896918784693
- Matswetu, V., & Bhana, D. (2018). Humhandara and hujaya: Virginity, culture and gender inequalities amongst adolescents in Zimbabwe. Sage Open Special issue on Adolescence, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018779107
- Bhana, D. (2018). Girls negotiating sexuality and violence in the primary school. British Educational Research Journal, 44(1), 80-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3319
- Moosa, S. & Bhana, D. (2018). ‘They won’t take you as a man, as a real man’ Why men can’t teach young children in Foundation Phase. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 22(6), 577-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2017.1390002
- Carboni, N., & Bhana, D. (2017).Forbidden Fruit: the politics of researching young people’s use of online sexually-explicit materials in South African schools. Sex Education, 17(6),635-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2017.1344629
- Bhana, D. (2017). Love, Sex and Gender: Missing in African Child and Youth Studies. AfricaDevelopment, 42(2), 251-264. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/167090
- Mayeza, E., & Bhana, D. (2017). Addressing gender violence among children in the early years of schooling: Insights from teachers in a South African primary school”. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 26(4), 408-425. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1319288
- Bhana, D. (2017). Love grows with sex: Teenagers negotiating sex and gender in the context of HIV and the implications for sex education. African Journal of AIDS Research, 16(1), 71–79. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2016.1259172
- Moosa, S., & Bhana, D. (2017). Men Managing, not teaching Foundation Phase: Primary school teacher’s construction of teaching in the early years of primary schooling. Educational Review, 69(3), 366-387. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2016.1223607
- Bhana, D., & Mayeza, E. (2016). ‘We don’t play with gays, they’re not real boys … they can’t fight’: Hegemonic masculinity and (homophobic) violence in the primary years of schooling. International Journal of Educational Development, 51, 36–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.08.002
- Bhana, D. (2016). “Sex isn’t better than love”: Exploring South African Indian teenage male and female desires beyond danger. Childhood, 23(3), 362-377. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0907568216642828
- Nkani, V., & Bhana, D. (2016).Sexual and reproductive well-being of teenage mothers in a South African township school. South African Journal of Education, 36(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v36n2a1181
- Bhana, D., & Buccus, I. (2016). Blue Lagoon: Race, class, space and the making of ‘Indian’ masculinities. African Identities, 14(4), 321-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1143802
- Bhana, D. (2016). Students encountering race and negotiating friendships, sexuality and language on campus. Africa Education Review, 13(2), 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2016.1224093
- Bhana, D., & Nkani, V. (2016). “What can I do, the child is already here?” Caregivers, gender, poverty and the contradiction of care in supporting teenage mothers at school. South African Review of Sociology, 47(2), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2015.1132082
- Bhana, D. (2016).Virgins and virtue: African masculinities and femininities in the making of teenage sexual cultures. Sexualities 2016, 19(4), 465–481. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460715613298
- Bhana, D., & Moosa, S. (2016). Failing to attract males in Foundation Phase teaching: an issue of masculinities. Gender and Education, 28(1), 1-19.https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2015.1105934
- Singh, T., & Bhana, D. (2015). Shifting race and class in student construction of identities at a South African university. African Identities, 13(3): 199–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1074537
- Bhana, D. (2015). Gendering the Foundation: teaching sexuality amid sexual danger and gender inequalities. Perspectives in Education, 33(2), 67-80. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC171665
- Bhana, D. (2015). Sex, gender and money in African teenage conceptions of love in HIV contexts. Journal of Youth Studies, 18(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2014.933195
- Bhana, D. (2015).When caring is not enough: the limits of teachers’ support for South African primary school-girls in the context of sexual violence. International Journal of Educational Development, 41, 262-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.08.003
- Bhana, D. (2014).Ruled by hetero-norms? Raising some moral questions for teachers in South Africa. Journal of Moral Education, 43(3), 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2014.922943
- Bhana, D., & Nkani, V. (2014). When African teenagers become fathers: Culture, materiality and masculinity. Culture Health and Sexuality, 16(4), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.887780
- Bhana, D. (2014). ‘Managing’ the rights of gays and lesbians: Reflections from some South African secondary schools. Education, Citizenship, Social Justice, 9(1), 67-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746197913497663
- Bhana, D. (2014).Race matters and the emergence of class: views from selected South African university students. South African Journal of Higher Education, 28(2), 355-367. http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC153552
- Bhana, D. (2013). Gender violence in and around schools: time to get to zero. African Safety Promotion, 11(2), 38-47. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/asp/article/view/136091
- Bhana, D. (2013).Kiss and tell: Boys, girls and sexualities in the early years. Agenda, 27(3), 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2013.834677
- Bhana, D. (2013). Introducing Love: gender, sexuality and power. Agenda, 27(2), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2013.822688
- Bhana, D. (2013).Love in Africa: a view from Jennifer Cole. Agenda, 27(2), 99-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2013.822686
- Bhana, D., & Anderson, B. (2013a). Gender, relationship dynamics and South African girls’ vulnerability to sexual risk. African Journal of AIDS Research, 12(1), 25-31. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2013.815408
- Bhana, D. (2013). Continuity and change in students’ account of race and class relations at a South African University. Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 11(1/2), 1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jhigheducafri.11.1-2.1
- Bhana, D., & Anderson, B. (2013b). Desire and constraint in the construction of South African teenage women’s sexualities. Sexualities, 16(5/6), 548-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460713487366
- Makusha, T; Richter, L., Knight, L., & Bhana,D. (2013).‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: Childhood experiences of fathers and their influence on women’s expectations and men’s experiences of fathering in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, 11(2), 138-158.
- Bhana, D., & Mcambi, S. (2013). When schoolgirls become mothers: Reflections from a selected group of teenage girls in Durban. Perspectives in Education, 31(1), 11-19. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/pie/article/view/87984
- Shefer, T, Bhana, D., & Morrell, R (2013). Narratives on teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts. Perspectives in Education, 31(1), 1-9. http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC133233
- Bhana,D. (2013).Parental views of morality, sexuality and the implication for South African moral education. Journal of Moral Education, 42(1), 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2012.737314
- Bhana, D., & Pillay, V. (2012). How women in higher education negotiate work and home: a study of selected women at a university in South Africa. Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 10(2), 81-94. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jhigheducafri.10.2.81
- Makusha, T., Richter, L., & Bhana, D. (2012). Children’s experiences of support they receive from men in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Africa Development, 7(3), 127-152. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/87513
- Bhana, D. (2012).Understanding and addressing homophobia in schools: views from teachers. South African Journal of Education, 32(3), 307-318. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v32n3a659
- Bhana, D., & Jewnarain, D. (2012). Gender and Sexuality in young children’s’ perspectives of AIDS. Africa Education Review, 9(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2012.683622.
- de Lange, N., Mitchell., C., & Bhana, D. (2012).Voices of women teachers about gender inequalities and gender-based violence in rural South Africa. Gender and Education, 24(5), 499-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2011.645022
- Bhana, D. (2012).Girls are not free in and out of South African, Schools. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(2), 352–358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.06.002
- Bhana D., &Pattman, R. (2011). Girls want money boys want Virgins, The materiality of love amongst South African township youth in the context of HIV and AIDS. Culture, Health and Sexuality. 13(8), 961-972. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2011.576770
- Bhana, D., & Pillay, N. (2011). Beyond passivity: Girls’ violence in a single sex school. Educational Review, 63(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2010.508557
- Bhana, D., Nzimakwe, T., & Nzimakwe, P. (2011). Gender in the early years: Boys and girls in an African working class primary school. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(5), 443-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.09.001
- Pattman, R., & Bhana, D. (2010). Sport, girls, trouble and humour: black and Indian boys negotiating gender, race and class in a formerly white single sex school in South Africa. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 20(4), 547-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2010.10820413
- Nkani, V., & Bhana, D. (2010).No to bulging stomachs: Male principals on teenage pregnancy in Inanda Durban. Agenda, 24(83), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2010.9676297
- Bhana, D., Morrell, R., Shefer, T., & Ngabaza, S. (2010). South African teachers’ responses to teenage pregnancy and teenage mothers in schools. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 12(8), 871-883. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2010.500398
- Bhana, D., & Mthethwa-Sommers, S. (2010). Feminisms today: Still fighting. Agenda, 24(83), 2-7. https://dpo.org/10.1080/10130950.2010.9676286
- Bhana, D. (2010).”Here in the Rural Areas we don’t say that men and women are equal!” Contesting gender inequalities in the early years. Agenda, 24(84), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2010.9676304
- Bhana, D., & Pattman, R. (2010). White South African school girls and their accounts of black girls at school and cross racial heterosexual relations outside school. Ethnicities, 10(3), 371-386. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796810372302
- Bhana, D. (2010).Deevia Bhana interviews Mbuyiselo Botha. Agenda, 24(83), 8-12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27917330
- Bhana, D. (2009).Violence – a gendered perspective in education. Agenda, 82, 2-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2009.9676234
- Bhana, D. (2009).“AIDS is rape” Gender and Sexuality in children’s responses to HIV/AIDS. Social Science and Medicine, 69(4), 596-603.https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.010
- Bhana, D. (2009).”Boys will be boys?” what do early childhood teachers have to do with it? Educational Review, 61(3), 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131910903045963
- Bhana, D. (2009).How much do young children know about HIV and AIDS. Early Child Development and Care, 180(8), 1079-1092. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430902742633
- Bhana, D. (2009).‘They’ve got all the knowledge’: HIV education, gender and sexuality in South African primary schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30(2), 165-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425690802700222
- Bhana, D., & Pattman, R. (2009). Researching South African youth, gender and sexuality within the context of HIV/AIDS. Development, 52(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2008.75
- Bhana, D., de Lange, N., & Mitchell, C. (2009). Male teachers talk about gender violence: “Zulu men demand respect”. Educational Review, 61(1), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131910802684771
- Bhana, D. (2008).Sex and the right to HIV/AIDS Education in Early Childhood. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 18(3), 277-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2008.10820220
- Bhana, D., Clowes, L., Morrell, R., & Shefer, T. (2008). South African schools’ responses to pregnant girls and young parents: a study of some Durban and Cape Town secondary schools. Agenda, 76, 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2008.9674935333
- Bhana, D. (2008).Beyond Stigma? Young children’s responses to HIV and AIDS. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 10(7), 725-738. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691050802265183
- Bhana, D. (2008).‘Girls hit!’ Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working class primary school. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29(3), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596300802259160
- Bhana, D. (2008).Discourses of childhood innocence in primary school HIV/AIDS education in South Africa. African Journal of AIDS research, 7(1), 149-158. https://dx.doi.org/10.2989/AJAR.2008.7.1.15.443
- Bhana, D. (2008).“Six packs and big muscles, and stuff like that.” Primary-aged South African boys, black and white, on Sport. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29(1), 3-15. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425690701728654
- Bhana, D. (2007).What matters to girls and boys in South Africa. Democracy and Education Special Issue of Savage Inequalities: STILL [reprinted], 17(1), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/0300443042000230410
- Bhana, D. (2007).“Emma and Dave sitting on a tree, K I S S I N G” Boys, girls and the ‘heterosexual matrix’ in a South African primary school. International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Special Issue: Queering Childhood, 5(2), 83-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2239-5_11
- Bhana, D. (2007).The price of Innocence: Teachers, gender, childhood sexuality and HIV/AIDS in early schooling. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 11(4), 431-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603110701391394
- Bhana, D. (2007).Childhood Sexualities and Rights in HIV contexts. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 9(3), 309-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691050601116686
- Bhana, D., Morrell, R., Hearn, J., & Moletsane, R. (2007). Power and Identity: An Introduction to Sexualities in Southern Africa. Sexualities, 10(2), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460707075794
- Bhana, D., & Epstein, D. (2007). “I don’t want to catch it” Boys, girls and sexualities in an HIV environment. Gender and Education, 19(1), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540250601087835
- Bhana, D. (2006).Rights: Researching Children in Contemporary South Africa. International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 4(1), 5-31.
- Pattman, R., & Bhana, D. (2006).Black boys with bad reputations. Alternations, 13(2), 252-272. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10231757_607
- Bhana, D. (2006). The (im)possibility of Child Sexual Rights in Young South African Children’s account of HIV/AIDS. IDS Bulletin, 37(4), 64-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00304.x
- Bhana, D., Morrell, R., Epstein, D., & Moletsane, R. (2006). The hidden work of caring: Teachers and the maturing AIDS epidemic in diverse secondary schools in Durban. Journal of Education, 38, 5-24. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA0259479X_53
- Bhana, D. (2005).What matters to teachers, boys and girls in a black primary school in South Africa. Early Childhood Development and Care, 172(2), 99-112. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0300443042000230410
- Bhana, D. (2005).”I’m the best in Maths. Boys rule, Girls drool.” Masculinities mathematics and primary schooling. Perspectives in Education, 23(3), 1-10. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC87336
- Bhana, D. (2005).Social Justice Is a Verb! Pedagogy Culture and Society, 3(3), 427-432. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681360500200227
- Bhana, D. (2003).Children are Children Gender Doesn’t matter. Agenda, 17(56), 37-45. https://doi.org/10.2307/4066362
- Bhana, D. (1999). Education, Race and Human Rights in South Africa. Perspectives in Education, 18(2), 19-30.
Recent Supervision (2018-2022)
Completed PhD
- Vimbai Sharon Matswetu. Gender, Power and Resistance: A Case Study of Two Rural Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe.
- Mornica Nozipho Mvune. Teenage Fathers: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Schooling in Rural KwaZulu-Natal.
- Jewnarain D. Beyond Schooling: Primary School Girls’ Narratives and Experiences of Gender and Sexual Violence.
- Tasmeera Singh. Investigating Constructions of Student Identities and Its Impact on Social Cohesion at a South African University.
- Shaaista Moosa. Male Teachers in the Early Years.
Completed Postdoctoral
- Dr Delarise Mulqueeny (Scoping Reviews).
- Dr Jennifer Roberts (Learning from Learners).
Ongoing Postdoctoral
- Dr Shaaista Moosa (April 2019-)
- Dr Raksha Janak (April 2021-)
- Dr Vimbai Matswetu (April 2022-)
Completed Masters
- Thembisa Tshibe Parents’ Views on Transgender Identities and the Implications for Primary School Learners.
- Gobizazi Lucky Mbonambi Teachers’ Construction of Transgender Identities in Rural Secondary Schools.
- Fatima Al Sayed Understanding Teachers’ Construction of Transgender: Perspectives from Primary School Teachers in Amanzimtoti within KwaZulu-Natal (Summa Cum Laude).
- Omeshree Lakhan Cyberbullies: Teenage Girls’ Online Experiences of Sexual Harassment.
- Karen Sathyanand. Primary School Teachers’ Views on Transgender Identity (Summa Cum Laude).
- Nosipho Sithole (co-supervisor Dr Moosa) Children’s Meanings of Same-Sex Sexualities: A Study of 8 and 9-year-old Boys and Girls in a Primary School.
- Valerie Reddy (co-supervisor Dr Moosa) Learners’ Construction of Transgender at a High School in Shakaskraal, KwaZulu-Natal: A Qualitative Study (Cum Laude).
- Laaiqah Syed (co-supervisor Dr Mulqueeny) Primary School and the Construction of Transgender Identities: Views from Learners.
- Nicolette Carboni “Learning Sex”: How High School Students Engage with Online Pornography and Give Meaning to Gender and Sexualities (Summa Cum Laude).
- Senzelokuhle Mpumelelo Nkabini “Making Masculinity”: A Case Study of Rural Primary School Boys’ Meanings- Towards Same-Sex Sexuality.
- MMatshepo Maggie Kgang Violent Boys: Masculinities Among Primary School Boys in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal.
- Thandiwe Joyce Xesibe Boys’ Violence and the Construction of Primary School Masculinities in Pietermaritzburg.
- Naresa Govender Boys, Girls and Violence: An Ethnographic Study Exploring Young Masculinities and Femininities at a Primary School in KwaDukuza.
- Diloshini Govender A Case Study of Grade Three Boys, Masculinity and Violence at a Primary School in KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal (Cum Laude).
Science Engagement
A record of contribution to the public’s understanding of gender and childhood sexuality:
Media Interviews
- The prevalence of rape culture in South African Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqFIQ9sd_Sg - Examining rape culture in schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ple6KRRvskg - Young girls experiencing GBV in schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ1kil8J1Xs
Invited Talks
- NRF-Embassy of Sweden Webinar on the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence: Hearing and listening to marginalised voices campaign (online event). Theme: Gender-Based Violence in marginalised groups and communities.
08 December 2021, 14:00 – 15:30
Op-Ed Articles
- Bhana, D. (2021). Rape culture in South African schools: Where it comes from and how to change it. Conversation. https://theconversation.com/rape-culture-in-south-african-schools-where-it-comes-from-and-how-to-change-it-166925
- Mayeza, E. & Bhana, D. (2021) Why girls continue to experience violence at South African schools? https://theconversation.com/why-girls-continue-to-experience-violence-at-south-african-schools-157470
- Bhana, D. (2020). Of African girls, femininities and violence: Pushing against the stereotype/Über Mädchen in Afrika, Weiblichkeiten und Gewalt: Den Stereotypen entgegen treten https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/sozialpaedagogik_soziale_arbeit/zeitschriften/betrifft_maedchen/article/Journal.html?tx_beltz_journal%5Barticle%5D=44535&cHash=bd59d8d21bac3ecf51adaa31016dab17
- Bhana, D. (2020). Violent behaviour shows up at primary school — and can end there too. Conversation. https://theconversation.com/violent-behaviour-shows-up-at-primary-school-and-can-end-there-too-133107
- McGrath, K., Bhana, D., Van Bergen, P. & Moosa, S. (2019). Do we really need male teachers? Forget those old reasons, here’s new research. https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=4726
- Bhana, D., McGrath, K., van Bergen, P., & Moosa, S. (2019). Why having both male and female teachers is a good idea for schools. Conversation. https://theconversation.com/why-having-both-male-and-female-teachers-is-a-good-idea-for-schools-123780
Upcoming Events
18:00-20:00
10 May 2022
PsySSA 2022 Workshop Series: Workshop 1 - Sexual consent in young adults: A moment or a movement?
Topic: Sexual Consent: Sex, Power and Young People
14h00
20 June 2022
British Sociological Association New Materialisms study group seminar.
Topic: Topic: 'Teenage girls and the entanglement with online porn: A new feminist materialist perspective'
09h30 - 10h30
14 July 2022
I SexAFIN International Virtual Conference “(Re)thinking about comprehensive sexuality education from a child-centered and gendered perspective”. 2nd Conference day: Strategies of CSE
Topic: Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Young Children: Needed and Denied.