Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa Power, Play, and Sexuality
Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play, and Sexuality by Deevia Bhana, published by Routledge in 2023, explores the experiences of teenage girls in South Africa as they encounter and engage with pornography. This 192-page book situates these experiences within broader sociocultural and affective relations of power, focusing on the playful and pleasurable pursuits of girls as they navigate their sexual curiosities in a digital landscape where porn is omnipresent.
Readers will find an interdisciplinary approach that draws from feminist materialism and assemblage theory, examining how girls’ online interactions with porn serve as critical sites for learning and negotiating gender and sexuality. The book highlights the pervasive nature of pornography in various media forms and argues that these experiences not only contribute to pleasure but also empower girls to contest societal norms related to race, gender, and heterosexuality. This edition will appeal to researchers in fields such as sociology, psychology, and gender studies, providing insights into the complexities of adolescent sexuality in contemporary society.
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The book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on girls’ online playful and pleasurable pursuits as they explore and expand upon their sexual curiosities.
In this digital moment, the book directs us to the multi-layered meanings around porn, as an everyday normative experience. The book takes on an interdisciplinary approach drawing from and inspired by new feminist materialism and assemblage theorising. For teenage girls porn is freely available to see in billboards, magazines, books, on television, music videos, games, online streaming and social media sites. Girls do not have to view hardcore porn to see porn: it is everywhere. It argues that girls’ online playful adventures are a critical site for learning, developing, and negotiating gender and sexuality. These meanings are constitutive of pleasure and the pursuit of learning sexually, but they also provide a launchpad for girls to contest race, gender, and heterosexual domination while opening up online porn to broader interrogation and critique.
The book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, youth, gender and sexuality studies, porn studies, and childhood studies.
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