Overview

This volume focuses on the role of gender in young peoples’ digital sexual cultures in South Africa. Offering a snapshot of their lives as they navigate the online world, this book explores young people’s heterosexual desires, and the materialisation of gender inequalities. The chapters in the book take heed of human and more-than-human elements and understand the connection between devices, technologies, images, sexting, filters, pornography, sexuality and violence as affective flows with potential for new becomings and new constraints. Chapters also detail how these experiences are woven with global and local norms regarding heterosexuality, masculinity, and femininity, shaping young peoples’ web surfing experiences: amid pleasure and peril. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. 

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Author:   Deevia Bhana
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031863578

ISBN 10:   3031863577
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   29 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Gender, Sexuality and Young People’s Digital Cultures.- Chapter 2. Emojis, Stickers and Nudes: Boys, Girls and Online Sexual Connections.- Chapter 3. Girls Talk about Image-Sharing Practices and the Phallic Production of Masculinity.- Chapter 4. Social Media, Sexuality and Young Femininity: Insights from Teenage Girls in South Africa.- Chapter 5. Boys’ and Girls’ Experiences of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence.- Chapter 6. Troubling Gender: Girls Perpetrating Online (Hetero)Sexual Harassment.- Chapter 7. Gender, Race and Sexuality in Teenage Girls’ Selfie Cultures.- Chapter 8. Between Respectability and Resistance: Zulu Cultural Norms and Girls' Online Sexual Expressions.- Chapter 9. Girls’ Desires, Porn and Sexual Double Standards.- Chapter 10. Porn, Pleasure and Power: Boys, Girls and Masturbation.- Chapter 11. ‘Smash or Pass’: Heterosexual Desirability and Gendered Dynamics in Boys’ Gaming Cultures.- Chapter 12. Global Concerns and Local Realities: Gender, Sexuality and Young People’s Digital Futures.

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Deevia Bhana is the South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.   

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