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Title:Managing the Sexuality of Urban Youth: Johannesburg, 1920s-1960s
Author:Glaser, CliveISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:38
Issue:2
Pages:301-327
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:youth
political systems
social policy
social welfare
sexuality
Urbanization and Migration
History and Exploration
Ethnic and Race Relations
Health and Nutrition
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034922
Abstract:Lurking beneath the surface of a number of important social and political themes in South African history from the 1920s to the 1960s is a subtheme of sex. Sex, particularly as practiced by young people in the urban areas, permeated discussions on the 'poor white problem', racial identity, and urban management. Based on scholarship of several researchers, supplemented with his own previously published work as well as additional primary research, the author analyses the relationship between State and private as well as church welfare organizations in dealing with the perceived problem of uncontrolled sexuality during the period. He argues that the high levels of interaction and cooperation within the welfare network of the 1920s-1940s later gave way to growing suspicion and alienation. Aside from grants to family planning associations, the central government had by the 1960s almost completely severed contact with organizations that had so powerfully influenced welfare policy in the interwar years. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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