Overcoming the effects of physical and emotional abuse through personal leadership development
- Authors: Abrahams, Tanya
- Date: 2012-11-18
- Subjects: Abused women - Rehabilitation , Abused women - Counseling of , Resilience (Personality trait) , Women abuse , Interpersonal conflict
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: uj:7401 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8211
- Description: M.Phil. , The aim of this study was to explore how women overcome the effects of physical and emotional abuse through personal leadership. The research has been conceptualised by the researcher‟s knowledge of the Personal, Interpersonal and Professional (PiPL) Leadership framework. The researcher researched how women overcome the effects of physical and emotional abuse from a personal perspective, as well as using individual experiences to explore how women cope with these challenges. The study was motivated by the researcher‟s experience of abuse. A decision was made to subject her own as well as another woman‟s experiences to scholarly study. This process served as a catalyst in dealing with a few unresolved challenges in her life. The study concludes that overcoming the effects of physical and emotional abuse is a burdensome journey that constantly needs work and that one can never claim to have truly mastered. From the core research problem the research question was formulated as follows: How do women overcome the physical and emotional affects of abuse through personal leadership? From the above research question, the following two aims of the study were formulised: To explore, describe and reach an understanding of how two women have coped with the effects of physical and emotional abuse through personal leadership development. To add to existing knowledge by applying the PiPL framework and other theoretical concepts to the two women‟s authentic experiences. The study follows autoethnography as a research approach. Anderson (2006) suggests the term analytic autoethnography involving research in which the vi researcher is: (i) A full member in the research setting; (ii) Visible in such texts; (iii) Committed to develop theoretical understanding of broader social phenomena; (iv) Analytic reflexivity; and (iv) Dialogue with informants beyond the self. Anderson (2006) believes that insights gained from the lived experiences of the researcher must be applied analytically, in other words, it should contribute to some way to existing theory. This study adheres to Anderson‟s commitment to an analytic agenda. Ontologically, the study‟s position is that of constructivism. Furthermore, the epistemological stance in the study can be summarised as follows: knowledge about women overcoming the effects of abuse is generated by revealing the meaning such women attach to their experiences and the researcher‟s interpretation of it is not definitive. This statement makes claim to both interpretivism and constructivism. This study shares the journey towards recovery, connection and choices. It concerns the researcher; a woman, wife and mother, who was negatively impacted by abuse. It is validated by a significant other who shares this experience with the researcher. Lastly, it includes another woman‟s lived experiences of abuse. It is a story towards finding closure, healing and meaning. Keywords: Women abuse, resilience, overcoming the effects of physical and emotional abuse, leadership, analytical autoethnography, Smith‟s (2009) Quality of Leadership, Personal, Interpersonal and Professional Leadership (PiPL), qualitative research.
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- Authors: Abrahams, Tanya
- Date: 2012-11-18
- Subjects: Abused women - Rehabilitation , Abused women - Counseling of , Resilience (Personality trait) , Women abuse , Interpersonal conflict
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: uj:7401 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8211
- Description: M.Phil. , The aim of this study was to explore how women overcome the effects of physical and emotional abuse through personal leadership. The research has been conceptualised by the researcher‟s knowledge of the Personal, Interpersonal and Professional (PiPL) Leadership framework. The researcher researched how women overcome the effects of physical and emotional abuse from a personal perspective, as well as using individual experiences to explore how women cope with these challenges. The study was motivated by the researcher‟s experience of abuse. A decision was made to subject her own as well as another woman‟s experiences to scholarly study. This process served as a catalyst in dealing with a few unresolved challenges in her life. The study concludes that overcoming the effects of physical and emotional abuse is a burdensome journey that constantly needs work and that one can never claim to have truly mastered. From the core research problem the research question was formulated as follows: How do women overcome the physical and emotional affects of abuse through personal leadership? From the above research question, the following two aims of the study were formulised: To explore, describe and reach an understanding of how two women have coped with the effects of physical and emotional abuse through personal leadership development. To add to existing knowledge by applying the PiPL framework and other theoretical concepts to the two women‟s authentic experiences. The study follows autoethnography as a research approach. Anderson (2006) suggests the term analytic autoethnography involving research in which the vi researcher is: (i) A full member in the research setting; (ii) Visible in such texts; (iii) Committed to develop theoretical understanding of broader social phenomena; (iv) Analytic reflexivity; and (iv) Dialogue with informants beyond the self. Anderson (2006) believes that insights gained from the lived experiences of the researcher must be applied analytically, in other words, it should contribute to some way to existing theory. This study adheres to Anderson‟s commitment to an analytic agenda. Ontologically, the study‟s position is that of constructivism. Furthermore, the epistemological stance in the study can be summarised as follows: knowledge about women overcoming the effects of abuse is generated by revealing the meaning such women attach to their experiences and the researcher‟s interpretation of it is not definitive. This statement makes claim to both interpretivism and constructivism. This study shares the journey towards recovery, connection and choices. It concerns the researcher; a woman, wife and mother, who was negatively impacted by abuse. It is validated by a significant other who shares this experience with the researcher. Lastly, it includes another woman‟s lived experiences of abuse. It is a story towards finding closure, healing and meaning. Keywords: Women abuse, resilience, overcoming the effects of physical and emotional abuse, leadership, analytical autoethnography, Smith‟s (2009) Quality of Leadership, Personal, Interpersonal and Professional Leadership (PiPL), qualitative research.
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Support for abused rural women in the Eastern Cape : views of survivors and service providers
- Authors: Mshweshwe, Linda
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Family violence - South Africa - Eastern Cape , Abused women - South Africa - Eastern Cape , Victims of family violence - Services for - South Africa - Eastern Cape , Abused women - Rehabilitation
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/296274 , uj:32277
- Description: Abstract: Through in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with 16 rural women who have survived domestic violence, as well as 17 support providers, this study gained insight into the survival strategies that rural women in the Eastern Cape draw on. The study also established the women’s perceptions of available support, as well as the cultural norms and larger ideological framework that shape and constrain their actions and responses to domestic violence. The central purpose of this thesis has been to probe how survivors of domestic violence living in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape cope with abuse in their domestic spaces, and how they engage support providers and other networks in order to resolve their dilemmas. By utilising an African feminist theoretical lens as well as standpoint theory, the study unmasks the interplay of patriarchy with structural factors, such as poverty and culture, which come together to embed rural women’s experiences of domestic violence and the choices they make in seeking support and complying with decisions on whether to stay with or escape domestic violence. Of the diverse range of issues scrutinised and investigated, the study found that the overwhelming influence of time-honoured rural cultural norms and practices keeps women vulnerable, while promoting male violence and normalising domestic violence particularly in customary marriages. When abused women reach out to largely informal support networks, they are encouraged to stay in abusive marriages, and they are discouraged from seeking professional help. The study also found that there is an inadequacy of formal support services in rural areas of O.R. Tambo and Amatole districts which caters for the poorest part of the Eastern Cape Province. Shelters in particular are very scarce, and that formal support service providers do not play effective role as they could. The study concludes that women in rural areas stay longer than necessary in abusive marriages simply because they lack formal support to help them make substantive sense of their abuse. Going back to abusive situations is... , D.Litt. et Phil. (Sociology)
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- Authors: Mshweshwe, Linda
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Family violence - South Africa - Eastern Cape , Abused women - South Africa - Eastern Cape , Victims of family violence - Services for - South Africa - Eastern Cape , Abused women - Rehabilitation
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/296274 , uj:32277
- Description: Abstract: Through in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with 16 rural women who have survived domestic violence, as well as 17 support providers, this study gained insight into the survival strategies that rural women in the Eastern Cape draw on. The study also established the women’s perceptions of available support, as well as the cultural norms and larger ideological framework that shape and constrain their actions and responses to domestic violence. The central purpose of this thesis has been to probe how survivors of domestic violence living in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape cope with abuse in their domestic spaces, and how they engage support providers and other networks in order to resolve their dilemmas. By utilising an African feminist theoretical lens as well as standpoint theory, the study unmasks the interplay of patriarchy with structural factors, such as poverty and culture, which come together to embed rural women’s experiences of domestic violence and the choices they make in seeking support and complying with decisions on whether to stay with or escape domestic violence. Of the diverse range of issues scrutinised and investigated, the study found that the overwhelming influence of time-honoured rural cultural norms and practices keeps women vulnerable, while promoting male violence and normalising domestic violence particularly in customary marriages. When abused women reach out to largely informal support networks, they are encouraged to stay in abusive marriages, and they are discouraged from seeking professional help. The study also found that there is an inadequacy of formal support services in rural areas of O.R. Tambo and Amatole districts which caters for the poorest part of the Eastern Cape Province. Shelters in particular are very scarce, and that formal support service providers do not play effective role as they could. The study concludes that women in rural areas stay longer than necessary in abusive marriages simply because they lack formal support to help them make substantive sense of their abuse. Going back to abusive situations is... , D.Litt. et Phil. (Sociology)
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