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The Experiences of Rural VhaVenda Women Involved in Polygamous Marriages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Masefako Andronica Gumani --- University of Venda, Tholene Sodi --- University of Venda,The study explored the experiences of five rural VhaVenda women involved in polygamous marriages aged between twenty seven and sixty four years. The five participants were selected through snowball sampling method from four villages in Vhembe District (Limpopo Province). Data... -
The Male Rape Survivor: Possible Meanings in the Context of Feminism and Patriarchy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gertie Pretorius --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaThis article covers a philosophical investigation into the possible meanings of rape for male survivors. The legal definitions of rape are investigated and the impossibility of male rape—from a legal, personal and social angle—described. An analysis of male rape in... -
Perceptions of Staffriding in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Lethal Thrill of Speed or the Masculine Performance of a Painful Past?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dimakatso Sedite --- University of South Africa, Brett Bowman --- University of the Witwatersrand, Lindsay Clowes --- University of the Western Cape,Staffriding, or train surfing, involves taking life threatening physical risks by moving around the outside of moving trains. In aiming to better understand this risky practice, this small scale qualitative study used three semi-structured interviews and three focus discussions to... -
The Lived Experiences of Sex Workers in South Africa: An Existential Phenomenological Exploration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gertie Pretorius --- University of Johannesburg, Dale Bricker --- University of Johannesburg,We explored the lived experiences of sex workers in South Africa by employing a phenomenological methodology. Five women between the ages of 34 and 48 years who were/are involved in this industry were interviewed between January and March 2008. Through... -
Masculinity and sexual practices in the military: a South African study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nyameka Mankayi --- , South Africa Anthony Vernon Naidoo --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe military's organisational culture tends to condone or encourage risk-taking behaviour. Willingness to accept and engage in risk-taking behaviour is central to good soldiering and is strongly associated with readiness for combat. This core attribute of military culture might predispose... -
Rural black women's agency within intimate partnerships amid the South African HIV epidemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Britta Thege --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaIn a particular way, the HIV pandemic exposes the prevailing gender relations and the definitions of male and female gender roles, both in intimate relationships and in the wider society. The HIV pandemic reveals the contradictions between women's legal rights... -
Presence, Agency and Popularity: Kenyan “Socialites”, Femininities and Digital Media
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Dina Ligaga --- Department of Media Studies, South AfricaRepresentations and self-representations in new digital cultures have complicated readings of gender and sexuality in the media in increasingly interesting ways. This article explores such representations, focusing on two well-known figures in the Kenyan tabloid media, Vera Sidika and Huddah... -
The waning of vision’s hegemony: A phenomenological perspective on mother-daughter discord in patriarchal societies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Casper Lötter --- , South AfricaIf phenomenology is a research methodology uniquely positioned to enable us to learn from others, I aim to demonstrate the idea that cinema is a privileged site from which to investigate the notion of virtuality (sight and reality), even in... -
Experiences of black African women entrepreneurs in the South African male-dominated entrepreneurial environments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dineo Diale --- , South Africa Nasima M. Carrim --- , South AfricaIn the current study, we examined how culture, gendered roles, and societal expectations shape South African black African women’s entrepreneurial experiences in male dominated entrepreneurial environments. Utilising a life story technique approach, we interviewed 12 Black African women entrepreneurs regarding... -
Women, gender fluidity and Shona kinship structure in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rose Jaji --- German Institute of Development and Sustainability, GermanyThis article discusses the complexities of Shona kinship structure and how it positions women through relationships that are based on consanguinity and affinity. The article, which is an auto-ethnographic discussion emanating from my insider status as a participant observer in... -
Choiceless Choices: Constructing the Female Child’s Body in Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Dalitsani Lucy Anselmo --- University of Malawi, Malawi Nick Mdika Tembo --- University of Malawi, MalawiThis article investigates constructions of the female child’s body in Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday. It is premised on the idea that society discursively constructs (condemns) female children as tacit subjects in the Nigeria depicted in the novel; and that...