Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Cult Health Sex. 2010 May;12(4):429-44. doi: 10.1080/13691051003602596.
HIV prevention discourses concern lives, the protection of bodily rights and people's active involvement in the policies and programmes that affect them. HIV prevention discourses also create lives, relying upon the deployment of normative sexual identities at the same time as they invite complex and fluid youth identities to embody the norms of prevention. This paper examines a particular HIV prevention text that is available to teachers in the Western Cape province of South Africa to support the implementation of the national Life Orientation programme. Rather than considering this text as a neutral 'scaffold' upon which teachers and students add cultural meanings, it is important to interrogate the ways in which texts rely upon and reiterate particular discursive constructions of the youth sexual subject. This paper argues that the text deploys a particular discursive framework in order to construct a 'normal' (and hetero) sexuality that validates, rather than questions, social constructions of masculine privilege within heterosexuality. This is achieved through the deployment of a scientific expertise of sexuality; the mobilisation of a valued hetero/homosexual binary to create a 'safe' heterosexuality; the normalisation of bourgeois sexuality through the ideology of marriage; and the naturalisation of heterosexual masculine and feminine identities.
HIV 预防话语涉及生命、身体权利的保护以及人们积极参与影响他们的政策和项目。HIV 预防话语也创造了生命，同时依靠规范的性身份的部署，同时邀请复杂和流动的青年身份来体现预防规范。本文研究了南非西开普省供教师使用的特定 HIV 预防文本，以支持国家生活指导计划的实施。与其将该文本视为教师和学生添加文化意义的中立“支架”，重要的是要质疑文本依赖和重申青年性主体特定话语结构的方式。本文认为，该文本采用了特定的话语框架，以构建一种“正常”（和异性恋）的性行为，这种性行为验证了异性恋中的男性特权的社会构建，而不是质疑这些构建。这是通过性科学专业知识的运用、通过调动有价值的异性恋/同性恋二元论来创造一种“安全”的异性恋、通过婚姻意识形态使资产阶级的性行为正常化以及通过将异性恋的男性和女性身份自然化来实现的。
