Wrap up on how people become sexually knowledgeable
How do people become sexually knowledgeable? That was the focus of this activity. In dr Amisah Bakuri’s video lecture she discussed how the Somali women she did her research with …
Course: Religion and Sexual Wellbeing: Pleasure, Piety, and Reproductive Rights
Wrapping up the Dutch “success story”
In this week we were introduced to the importance attached to talking openly about sex in the public domain in the Netherlands. The stories we read at the beginning of …
Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995
In this step and the following you will watch clips from the documentary Makers: Once and for all with some guiding questions. This documentary reflects on the Fourth Women’s Conference …
Engaging religious leaders
In this short video, Vusi Cebekhulu, Activist and Training Coordinator at Sonke Gender Justice in South Africa, explains why they work with religious leaders to challenge and transform gender inequality …
From property to care
In the previous step you gained insight into how gender inequality between men and women in marriage is tied to religiously legitimized practices of bride price, lobola. Bride price emphasizes …
What is sexual wellbeing?
In this video lecture, Dr Rachel Spronk further explains the approach to sexual wellbeing you saw in the article “Beyond Pain”. In particular, in this video she discusses sexual wellbeing. …
Beyond pain
Following the global Aids epidemic, sex has come to be ‘de-eroticized’ in research on sexuality. What this means is that, in studying some of the ‘painful realities’ and health concerns …
Reflecting on cultural traditions with religious leaders
You have investigated how culture and tradition are addressed in the Sexuality, Gender and Faith toolkit. In this video Godfrey Nakai from SAFAIDS gives an example of how stories from …
Grand schemes and polarization
You have browsed newspapers and online news in your own context, or the context in which you work, for examples of polarization around sexual health. You may have found news …
Working with religious resources
In the previous step you have investigated how the Sexuality, Gender and Faith Toolkit draws on Bible texts to raise awareness about gender based violence and the importance to transform …
Religious leaders and SRHR
In this video you are introduced to the work of SAFAIDS with the Faith Gender and Sexuality toolkit in Zimbabwe. Nakai Godfrey Nengomasha, development advisor at SAFAIDS, explains the challenges …
Polarization around sexuality
On Monday January 23 2017, the then US president Donald Trump signed the Mexico city policy, an executive order banning international NGOs from providing abortion services or offering information about …
The “success story” of Dutch sexuality education
Research demonstrates that teenage pregnancy in the Netherlands is among the lowest in the world. In the United States for example teenage pregnancy is four times higher than in the …
The triangle of religion, tradition and SRHR
In the previous steps you have explored men’s perspectives, roles and experiences in GBV. You have learned how men develop their understandings of masculinity and femininity in a patriarchal context …
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
In the previous steps you have explored what Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights are in your perspective, and explored how these terms become meaningful in the policies of the …
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Religion and Sexual Wellbeing: Pleasure, Piety, and Reproductive Rights
