The stories of abused women in South Africa
- Authors: Manabe, Nkateko Lorraine
- Date: 2012-09-10
- Subjects: Abuse of women - South Africa , Sex role - South Africa , Families - South Africa , Abused women - Research - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:9882 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7281
- Description: M.A. , The rationale behind the study of abused women should be a public and not an individual concern. Acknowledging anti considering abuse of women to be unacceptable is not enough. However, the public needs to be further educated as to its prevalence and seriousness. In the present study an attempt is made to redress some of these differences by studying women abuse in South Africa. The most important aim of the research is to understand the ways in which three abused women have managed to have the courage to relate and be honest about their experiences of abuse that they have suffered for many years. The research study will be based on the qualitative research method. The narrative approach will be integrated, whereby the three abused women will tell their different stories of abuse by their husbands. The researcher has found this study to be of utmost importance in contextualising the insight of women abuse although the sample of the three women does not represent all the abused women in South African context.
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- Authors: Manabe, Nkateko Lorraine
- Date: 2012-09-10
- Subjects: Abuse of women - South Africa , Sex role - South Africa , Families - South Africa , Abused women - Research - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:9882 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7281
- Description: M.A. , The rationale behind the study of abused women should be a public and not an individual concern. Acknowledging anti considering abuse of women to be unacceptable is not enough. However, the public needs to be further educated as to its prevalence and seriousness. In the present study an attempt is made to redress some of these differences by studying women abuse in South Africa. The most important aim of the research is to understand the ways in which three abused women have managed to have the courage to relate and be honest about their experiences of abuse that they have suffered for many years. The research study will be based on the qualitative research method. The narrative approach will be integrated, whereby the three abused women will tell their different stories of abuse by their husbands. The researcher has found this study to be of utmost importance in contextualising the insight of women abuse although the sample of the three women does not represent all the abused women in South African context.
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Geslagsrolidentiteit, motivering en spanning by die werkende moeder
- Authors: Van Reenen, Wilhelmien J.
- Date: 2014-02-17
- Subjects: Working mothers - South Africa , Job stress - South Africa , Sex role - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:4019 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9373
- Description: M.A. (Psychology ) , The purpose of this study was firstly to develop a measuring scale to determine tension experienced by working mothers who still have pre-school children in nursery schools...
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- Authors: Van Reenen, Wilhelmien J.
- Date: 2014-02-17
- Subjects: Working mothers - South Africa , Job stress - South Africa , Sex role - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:4019 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9373
- Description: M.A. (Psychology ) , The purpose of this study was firstly to develop a measuring scale to determine tension experienced by working mothers who still have pre-school children in nursery schools...
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Meaning making of the gendered experiences of African adolescent girls from child-headed households within their educational and social contexts
- Authors: Leatham, Charmaine Petro
- Date: 2014-10-01
- Subjects: Child caregivers - South Africa - Psychology , Teenage girls - South Africa - Psychology , Sex role - South Africa , Community and school - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/387766 , uj:12459 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12245
- Description: D.Ed. (Educational Psychology) , Child-headed households are becoming increasingly prevalent in the absences of parents, especially in township and rural communities. Parents become absent for different reasons, such as needing to find employment away from home or falling ill and dying. Many extended families can no longer financially afford to care for the children within their own homes. Often different family members will take in siblings as they are unable to accommodate them all in their home due to lack of space or financial resources. As a result siblings would be scattered within the extended family. Child-headed households have become a solution whereby siblings could keep living together as a unit as well as staying within their known environment. Often, however, the responsibility of managing the households would be placed on the adolescent girls due to gender-role division. This could leave the girls vulnerable to the possibility of dropping out of school as managing a household, caring for younger siblings and keeping up with academic responsibilities places adolescent girls under intense pressure. The research focused on the gendered experiences of African adolescent girls from child-headed households in Orlando-West, Soweto. A qualitative research approach was used and the study was conducted by means of a hermeneutic phenomenological case study research design. Feminism, as a paradigm and main theoretical orientation, framed the study and findings. The data collection methods included two focus group interviews, one group of girls and one of boys. Three specifically selected girl participants living within the contexts of a child-headed home were selected. Over eight months and by means of individual interviews, the completion of a booklet and photo-voice activities the participants shared their gendered experiences with me within the contexts of a child-headed household. The findings of the data analysis indicated that adolescent girls from child-headed households specific to this study had to make meaning of their lives whilst still being influenced by patriarchal cultural practices and traditions from the past. The division of household chores in the home as modelled by parents was an instrumental factor in initiating gender inequality. The second theme related to the adolescent girls’ daily struggles in adverse circumstances as they had to make meaning and continually adjust to living arrangements that were not always stable. By virtue of their gender, dangers from the community were persistent. Living as a girl within a child-headed household also meant being confronted daily with the socio-economic hardships that influenced being able to attain academic support at school, and purchasing toiletries, food and daily necessities for their families.
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- Authors: Leatham, Charmaine Petro
- Date: 2014-10-01
- Subjects: Child caregivers - South Africa - Psychology , Teenage girls - South Africa - Psychology , Sex role - South Africa , Community and school - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/387766 , uj:12459 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12245
- Description: D.Ed. (Educational Psychology) , Child-headed households are becoming increasingly prevalent in the absences of parents, especially in township and rural communities. Parents become absent for different reasons, such as needing to find employment away from home or falling ill and dying. Many extended families can no longer financially afford to care for the children within their own homes. Often different family members will take in siblings as they are unable to accommodate them all in their home due to lack of space or financial resources. As a result siblings would be scattered within the extended family. Child-headed households have become a solution whereby siblings could keep living together as a unit as well as staying within their known environment. Often, however, the responsibility of managing the households would be placed on the adolescent girls due to gender-role division. This could leave the girls vulnerable to the possibility of dropping out of school as managing a household, caring for younger siblings and keeping up with academic responsibilities places adolescent girls under intense pressure. The research focused on the gendered experiences of African adolescent girls from child-headed households in Orlando-West, Soweto. A qualitative research approach was used and the study was conducted by means of a hermeneutic phenomenological case study research design. Feminism, as a paradigm and main theoretical orientation, framed the study and findings. The data collection methods included two focus group interviews, one group of girls and one of boys. Three specifically selected girl participants living within the contexts of a child-headed home were selected. Over eight months and by means of individual interviews, the completion of a booklet and photo-voice activities the participants shared their gendered experiences with me within the contexts of a child-headed household. The findings of the data analysis indicated that adolescent girls from child-headed households specific to this study had to make meaning of their lives whilst still being influenced by patriarchal cultural practices and traditions from the past. The division of household chores in the home as modelled by parents was an instrumental factor in initiating gender inequality. The second theme related to the adolescent girls’ daily struggles in adverse circumstances as they had to make meaning and continually adjust to living arrangements that were not always stable. By virtue of their gender, dangers from the community were persistent. Living as a girl within a child-headed household also meant being confronted daily with the socio-economic hardships that influenced being able to attain academic support at school, and purchasing toiletries, food and daily necessities for their families.
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Black women and mental health : gender and cultural roles
- Authors: Chipps, Penelope Ann
- Date: 2014-10-07
- Subjects: Women, Black - Mental health - South Africa - Case studies , Women, Black - Social aspects - South Africa - Case studies , Sex role - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:12477 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12274
- Description: M.A. (Clinical Psychology) , The present study explores the possible constraining effects of gender and cultural roles on the mental health of Black South African women. The specific focus is on the mental health of professional Black women who have been alienated from their traditional roles, yet find themselves in a context of traditional role prescriptions. In-depth interviews were conducted to obtain qualitative data on the subjective experiences of two professional women, one of which had been diagnosed as having Major Depression. The observations obtained from the case studies support the literature, in that both women experience a considerable amount of role strain; the// most important of which are in congruent role expectations, role ambiguity and role overload. Possible factors contributing to role strain are discussed within the context of a transitional South African society. It has been found that structural and normative variables account for most. of the role strain experienced by the women. The need for new role definitions by both Black professional women and men, as well as a greater role flexibility are emphasized. Research regarding interventions on both individual and societal level are recommended.
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- Authors: Chipps, Penelope Ann
- Date: 2014-10-07
- Subjects: Women, Black - Mental health - South Africa - Case studies , Women, Black - Social aspects - South Africa - Case studies , Sex role - South Africa
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:12477 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12274
- Description: M.A. (Clinical Psychology) , The present study explores the possible constraining effects of gender and cultural roles on the mental health of Black South African women. The specific focus is on the mental health of professional Black women who have been alienated from their traditional roles, yet find themselves in a context of traditional role prescriptions. In-depth interviews were conducted to obtain qualitative data on the subjective experiences of two professional women, one of which had been diagnosed as having Major Depression. The observations obtained from the case studies support the literature, in that both women experience a considerable amount of role strain; the// most important of which are in congruent role expectations, role ambiguity and role overload. Possible factors contributing to role strain are discussed within the context of a transitional South African society. It has been found that structural and normative variables account for most. of the role strain experienced by the women. The need for new role definitions by both Black professional women and men, as well as a greater role flexibility are emphasized. Research regarding interventions on both individual and societal level are recommended.
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