Yingwana, N. (2025). Sex Work in Africa. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. . Abstract:Sex work in Africa is shaped by complex intersections of gender, sexuality, labour, migration, colonialism, law...
Wood, S. (2016). Migration, Mobility and Marginalisation: Consequences for Sexual and Gender Minorities, IDS Policy Briefing 118, Brighton: IDS. Abstract: As a strategy to avoid discrimination, violence and economic marginalisation, sexual and...
As you might already know, I’m currently doing a Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), at the University of Sussex. This semester I took the Sexuality and Development module. One of the exercises...
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ (Simone de Beauvoir 1949). The sentiment encapsulated in this classic quote is that gender is socially constructed, and not predetermined by genitalia (being born with either a penis or a vagina). That...
