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“Girls need to behave like girls you know”: the complexities of applying a gender justice goal within sexuality education in South African schools

Sisa NgabazaDepartment of Women and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
(Lecturer) ,
Tamara SheferDepartment of Women and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
(Deputy Dean) &
Ida Macleod CatrionaRhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
(Professor of Psychology)
Pages 71-78 | Received 17 Mar 2016, Accepted 07 Nov 2016, Published online: 29 Nov 2016

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