In sub-Saharan Africa, girls' daily household chores often involve fetching water for their households. This article addresses the impact of uncertain water access in semi-urban Cameroon given the problems of rapid urbanization and increasing demands for water. A school competition engaged youth and key water sector actors in a dialogue about the water crisis in Buea town, and this resulted in the publication of the water distribution schedule. The event also drew attention to the gendered implications of the crisis in relation to girls' sexual health. Our analysis suggests that girls fetching water face multiple layers of risk that include gender-based violence and blame resulting from the gendered stigma attached to young people's behavior—particularly that of girls. All this serves to increase the moral panic surrounding youth sexualities. We explicitly use the term sexualities (plural) here to recognize the multiple ways in which sexualities may be expressed, constructed and experienced (Arnfred 2005). This research points to the dire need to better understand and consider within water management strategies how girls cope with and confront these risks.
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Fetching Water in the Unholy Hours of the Night
The Impacts of a Water Crisis on Girls' Sexual Health in Semi-urban Cameroon
Jennifer A. Thompson, Fidelis Folifac, and Susan J. Gaskin
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Children Born of War
A European Research Network Exploring the Life Histories of a Hidden Population
Kimberley Anderson and Sophie Roupetz
’ relationship. While a historically rooted phenomenon, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) continues to appear in more recent conflicts and is the focus of three further projects within CHIBOW. For instance, since the insurgence of the Lord’s Resistance Army
Rekinning Our Kinscapes
Renegade Indigenous Stewarding against Gender Genocide
Sandrina de Finney, Shezell-Rae Sam, Chantal Adams, Keenan Andrew, Kathryn McLeod, Amber Lewis, Gabby Lewis, Michaela Louis, and Pawa Haiyupis
denial in media and public discourse; this revealed how racialized gender-based violence can persist with impunity as a key function of Canadian nation building. We write this article as community-rooted researchers and participants of “Sisters Rising
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- 80–98 (19 total)
Girls, Homelessness, and COVID-19
The Urgent Need for Research and Action
Kaitlin Schwan, Erin Dej, and Alicia Versteegh
increase the social and economic exclusion of girls in Canada who are homeless or precariously housed: the feminization of poverty, the uneven burden of childcare, and gender-based violence. This literature review draws together available research and data
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 151–168 (18 total)
Pre-pandemic Influences on Kenyan Girls’ Transitions to Adulthood during COVID-19
Meghan Bellerose, Maryama Diaw, Jessie Pinchoff, Beth Kangwana, and Karen Austrian
rates and less access to health services ( Mutisya et al. 2016 ). Adolescent girls living in informal settlements are particularly vulnerable, with significantly higher rates of food insecurity, unprotected sex, and gender-based violence (GBV) than
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 133–150 (18 total)
Negotiating Girl-led Advocacy
Addressing Early and Forced Marriage in South Africa
Sadiyya Haffejee, Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Nkonzo Mkhize
girls due to parents wanting cows.” This was a pivotal moment in our three-year partnership with the SIFs, who live in the rural, isiZulu-speaking community of Loskop in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. Beginning in 2016, with its broad focus on gender-based
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 18–34 (17 total)
Love and Sex in Wartime
Controlling Women’s Sexuality in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground
Marta Havryshko
OUN and UPA history. 1 The study of women’s experience of the nationalist movement (and the analysis of the widespread gender-based violence, including sexual violence against female members) undermines the idealistic perception of the nationalist
The Lives of Girls and Young Women in the Time of COVID-19
Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith
distancing and social isolation are having on already vulnerable girls and young women experiencing sex- and gender-based violence. All over the world girls and young women are facing increasing levels of precariousness as a direct result of the health
Red Ribbon Skirts and Cultural Resurgence
Kimihko sîmpân iskwêwisâkaya êkwa sihcikêwin waniskâpicikêwin
Kari Dawn Wuttunee, Jennifer Altenberg, and Sarah Flicker
together to combat gender-based violence. Kari-Dawn Wuttunee, a Cree founding member of the National Indigenous Young Women's Council, birthed this project by gathering her younger sisters and encouraging them to challenge gender-based violence in ways
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Intersectional Pandemics in Bangladesh
The Effects of COVID-19 on Girls
Nasrin Siddiqa
. Self-isolation has increased the rates of gender-based violence. Early marriage and pregnancy are among the drastic effects of school closures and many parents have married off their underage daughters or sold them off to rich families as domestic