- Title
- Constructions of masculinity in young men's narratives of violence in the homeplace
- Creator
- Stride, Lorenzo
- Subject
- Family violence
- Subject
- Masculinity
- Subject
- Men -- Identity
- Subject
- Men -- Psychology
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (C Psy)
- Identifier
- vital:11847
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/185
- Identifier
- Family violence
- Identifier
- Masculinity
- Identifier
- Men -- Identity
- Identifier
- Men -- Psychology
- Description
- This research was undertaken with a view to advancing scholarship on the production and reproduction of notions of masculinity through everyday experiences of violence in the domestic sphere. In particular, the researcher sought to explicate constructions of masculinity in men’s narratives of their experiences of violence in the homeplace. The participants in this study constituted a fairly homogenous sample in terms of age, education, geographic location, and socio-economic status. A homogenous sample was purposefully selected because it aided an analysis of the phenomenon under study without diversions from extraneous variables. Data was collected from semi-structured, personal, in-depth, face-to-face interviews with eight young men. In these interviews participants were asked to recall and to talk about one particular experience of domestic violence that they witnessed or that had happened to them in the past. Photo elicitation was used as a reflective technique aimed at facilitating recall and discussion during the interviews. Data was analysed by means of a discourse analysis. The main findings of this research were that the participants grew up in communities where a more traditional hegemonic masculinity was commonplace and where violence as a means of exerting control was associated with being a ‘real man’. The participants did however question this notion of masculinity as a result of their experiences, particularly when they perceived the violence that they had been exposed to as excessive or unwarranted.
- Format
- 69 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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