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Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care draws together unique and compelling essays about the contexts of early childbearing, a topic that is now taken for granted. It draws on empiricaldata, multi-level approaches and inter-disciplinary perspectives on the dynamics that underpinyoung people’s experiences of being pregnant, having a child and caring for the child. The book explores the contexts in which young families are constituted and shaped along with the kinds of social relationships and communities of care that early childbearing creates (or in some instances destroys). It shows the entanglement of gender, sexuality, race, age and class in the formation of young families and its effects on caring practices. This book draws together unique and compelling accounts that address a gap in the existing literature on families in South Africa while also providing an understanding of the diversity of young South African families. Young Families will be of interest and of benefit to those in the fields of Women and Gender studies, Anthropology, Education, Sociology, History and Demography.

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Nolwazi Mkhwanazi is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of theWitwatersrand. Nolwazi obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University ofCambridge (2005). She held the position of Senior Researcher at the Fort Hare Institute ofSocial and Economic Research (FHISER) and at the Centre for AIDS Development, Research andEvaluation (CADRE). In 2012 she joined the Department of Anthropology at the University ofthe Witwatersrand, where she teaches courses in the anthropology of medicine and the body;medical anthropology; and ethnographic writing and analysis. Nolwazi’s research addresses issues related to life course, kinship and care. Her publicationsare based on her long-term (1999 – ongoing) ethnographic research on early childbearing among Xhosa-speaking people in the townships of the Western Cape. Nolwazi’s work has been published in lead journals such as Culture, Health and Sexuality; African Identities and Medical Anthropology. Nolwazi is currently guest editing (with Ellen Block and Lenore Manderson) a special issue for AIDS Care on “Intimacy, Responsibility and Care”. Deevia Bhana is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair (SARCHI) in Gender and Childhood Sexuality: violence, inequalities and schooling; and is a Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is the author of Under Pressure: The Regulation of Sexualities in South African Secondary Schools (MaThoko/Modjaji Books, 2014). She is a co-author on Towards Gender Equality: Gender in South African Schools during the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (UKZN Press, 2009) and a co-editor of Books and/or Babies. Pregnancy and Young Parents at School (HSRC Press, 2012). Her latest book is Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education: The Price of Innocence (New York/London: Routledge, 2016). Deevia’s research interests comprise childhood sexualities, gender, inequalities and schooling. Deevia holds two Women in Science Awards and is regarded as pioneer in the field of South African gender and childhood sexualities. She is a B-rated National Research Foundation (NRF) researcher. Her work appears in lead journals including Social Science and Medicine; Culture, Health and Sexuality; Sexualities; Discourse; Development; International Journal of Educational Development; Gender and Education; and the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

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