Constructions of masculinity in young men's narratives of violence in the homeplace
- Authors: Stride, Lorenzo
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Family violence , Masculinity , Men -- Identity , Men -- Psychology
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (C Psy)
- Identifier: vital:11847 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/185 , Family violence , Masculinity , Men -- Identity , 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.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Stride, Lorenzo
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Family violence , Masculinity , Men -- Identity , Men -- Psychology
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (C Psy)
- Identifier: vital:11847 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/185 , Family violence , Masculinity , Men -- Identity , 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.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Ambivalence and paradox: the battered woman's interactions with the law and other helping resources
- Authors: Labe, Dana
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Family violence -- Law and legislation , Abused women , Family violence , Wife abuse , Women -- Crimes against , Women -- Counseling of , Family violence -- Prevention
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:3333 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003127 , Family violence -- Law and legislation , Abused women , Family violence , Wife abuse , Women -- Crimes against , Women -- Counseling of , Family violence -- Prevention
- Description: This thesis explores how the battered woman attachment to her abusive partner impacts on her interactions with the legal system and non-legal resources. This qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews conducted with seven abused women who procured interdicts in terms of the Prevention of Family Violence Act 133 of 1993 to restrain their husbands from assaulting them. The research reviews the nature of abuse suffered by the participants, their psychological attachments to their husbands, and their patterns of help-seeking in relation to the law and non-legal resources. Two main theoretical frameworks, psychoanalysis and feminism inform this study. The study found that the participants retained unrealistic hopes that their husbands would reform and become loving, caring partners, and that they treated their husbands with care and sympathy despite their husbands’ often brutal behaviour towards them. The findings suggest that the women’s behaviour towards their husbands was the product of two reality distorting psychological defences, splitting and the moral defence which they used to preserve their attachments to their abusive partners. These defences intersected with rigid patriarchal prescriptions of femininity which dictate that women should be stoically caring towards their husbands, and should hold relationships together no matter what the cost to themselves. The participants interactions with the legal system and with non-legal sources of help were structured by their reliance on splitting and the moral defence, and by the dictates of patriarchal ideology. Whilst it is undoubtedly true that at one level the participants sought help to get protection from abuse, the study shows that their help-seeking was motivated by their conflicting desires to punish and reform their husbands. The participants sought help in ways which enabled them to strike a compromise between expressing their anger at their husbands, whilst simultaneously preserving their psychological attachments to them. The study concludes that the women’s interactions with the law and with other helping resource reflect their attempts to preserve their paradoxical attachments to their husbands, and to stabilise their own fragile sense of self and gender identity.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: Labe, Dana
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Family violence -- Law and legislation , Abused women , Family violence , Wife abuse , Women -- Crimes against , Women -- Counseling of , Family violence -- Prevention
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:3333 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003127 , Family violence -- Law and legislation , Abused women , Family violence , Wife abuse , Women -- Crimes against , Women -- Counseling of , Family violence -- Prevention
- Description: This thesis explores how the battered woman attachment to her abusive partner impacts on her interactions with the legal system and non-legal resources. This qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews conducted with seven abused women who procured interdicts in terms of the Prevention of Family Violence Act 133 of 1993 to restrain their husbands from assaulting them. The research reviews the nature of abuse suffered by the participants, their psychological attachments to their husbands, and their patterns of help-seeking in relation to the law and non-legal resources. Two main theoretical frameworks, psychoanalysis and feminism inform this study. The study found that the participants retained unrealistic hopes that their husbands would reform and become loving, caring partners, and that they treated their husbands with care and sympathy despite their husbands’ often brutal behaviour towards them. The findings suggest that the women’s behaviour towards their husbands was the product of two reality distorting psychological defences, splitting and the moral defence which they used to preserve their attachments to their abusive partners. These defences intersected with rigid patriarchal prescriptions of femininity which dictate that women should be stoically caring towards their husbands, and should hold relationships together no matter what the cost to themselves. The participants interactions with the legal system and with non-legal sources of help were structured by their reliance on splitting and the moral defence, and by the dictates of patriarchal ideology. Whilst it is undoubtedly true that at one level the participants sought help to get protection from abuse, the study shows that their help-seeking was motivated by their conflicting desires to punish and reform their husbands. The participants sought help in ways which enabled them to strike a compromise between expressing their anger at their husbands, whilst simultaneously preserving their psychological attachments to them. The study concludes that the women’s interactions with the law and with other helping resource reflect their attempts to preserve their paradoxical attachments to their husbands, and to stabilise their own fragile sense of self and gender identity.
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- Date Issued: 2001
Conflict narratives of young males in the Blue Crane Route Municipality who experienced domestic violence during childhood
- Authors: Martin, Jonathan Malvin
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Family violence , Abusive men -- Psychology , Abusive men -- Rehabilitation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/31863 , vital:31855
- Description: Domestic Violence is a growing concern globally and currently one of the most dominant negative social forces in South Africa. Many children are experiencing or witnessing Domestic Violence in their households or community, with potentially devastating consequences (Dawes, Long, Alexander & Ward, 2007; Burton, 2007). This study investigates the personal conflict narratives of eleven young adult males who experienced Domestic Violence as children. The young men completed a self-administered questionnaire which included a request for a personal conflict narrative or story. The study then engaged these young men in a two-day workshop of an international conflict management programme, known as the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), which teaches attitudes and strategies to manage conflict (such as self-awareness, empathy and community-building). After the workshop, the participants were asked to re-write their conflict narratives and any changes in their attitudes and strategies to conflict were discussed in group interviews. The study was qualitative; that is, exploratory, descriptive and contextual in nature. Non-probability purposive sampling was employed to identify suitable young adult males between 18-35 years of age from the Blue Crane Route Municipality (Somerset East and Pearston), who experienced Domestic Violence during their childhood. Workers at Victim Support Centres in the Blue Crane Route Municipality assisted with the recruitment of potential participants and requested permission to provide the researcher with their personal information. In analysing the data obtained, the study used a narrative analysis approach to the participants’ pre- and post-AVP workshop conflict narratives. The trustworthiness of the research process and findings was enhanced by employing a variety of data verification strategies.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Martin, Jonathan Malvin
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Family violence , Abusive men -- Psychology , Abusive men -- Rehabilitation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/31863 , vital:31855
- Description: Domestic Violence is a growing concern globally and currently one of the most dominant negative social forces in South Africa. Many children are experiencing or witnessing Domestic Violence in their households or community, with potentially devastating consequences (Dawes, Long, Alexander & Ward, 2007; Burton, 2007). This study investigates the personal conflict narratives of eleven young adult males who experienced Domestic Violence as children. The young men completed a self-administered questionnaire which included a request for a personal conflict narrative or story. The study then engaged these young men in a two-day workshop of an international conflict management programme, known as the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), which teaches attitudes and strategies to manage conflict (such as self-awareness, empathy and community-building). After the workshop, the participants were asked to re-write their conflict narratives and any changes in their attitudes and strategies to conflict were discussed in group interviews. The study was qualitative; that is, exploratory, descriptive and contextual in nature. Non-probability purposive sampling was employed to identify suitable young adult males between 18-35 years of age from the Blue Crane Route Municipality (Somerset East and Pearston), who experienced Domestic Violence during their childhood. Workers at Victim Support Centres in the Blue Crane Route Municipality assisted with the recruitment of potential participants and requested permission to provide the researcher with their personal information. In analysing the data obtained, the study used a narrative analysis approach to the participants’ pre- and post-AVP workshop conflict narratives. The trustworthiness of the research process and findings was enhanced by employing a variety of data verification strategies.
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- Date Issued: 2018
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