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Title: | 'You have to change and you don't know how!': contesting what it means to be a man in a rural area of South Africa |
Author: | Sideris, Tina |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 29-49 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | gender relations Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0002018042000226148 |
Abstract: | In the Nkomazi region, in the southeastern corner of the Mpumalanga province (South Africa), a group of men are negotiating more caring and equal relationships with their wives and children. Based on fieldwork and clinical work over the past eight years in this area, this paper examines individual men who, in the private arenas of their lives, are engaged in redefining and reworking their practices. Against the background of prevailing gender norms and dominant views of family relations in a rural area, their stories of difference are unpacked in relation to domestic violence and particular components of the household economy. The testimony presented is drawn from in-depth interviews with seven men, a focus group discussion in which they participated, and interviews with the women with whom they are currently involved. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |