Sexual Identity and Transformation at a South African University
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Sexual Identity and Transformation at a South African University
Despite the proliferation of policies ostensibly protecting all persons’ rights, and mounting critical academic debate and scholarship on sexuality and sexual orientation, sexual orientation in the academy remains a site of deep contestation. The first section of this paper discusses the national legal framework as a basis from which the state’s new social engineering uses liberal human rights ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Dynamics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0253-3952,1940-7874
DOI: 10.1080/02533950708628743