'n Persoonlike leierskapsperspektief op die gebrek aan selfbewussyn by die hedendaagse vrou
- Authors: Venter, Anchen
- Date: 2012-09-07
- Subjects: Leadership , Theory of self-knowledge , Women - Psychology , Women - Identity
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/388466 , uj:9746 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7155
- Description: M.Phil. , Women today find themselves in a dilemma due to a conflict in role expectations. The purpose of this study is to investigate this dilemma, as well as the role of selfawareness, values and personal leadership in this regard. The main objective is to clearly define the concept self-awareness and what it entails for women today, and secondly to investigate the role of value-clarification in this regard. Finally, the focus of this study is on the contribution that personal leadership can make to the development of self-awareness of women today. The focus of this study is the middle-class, married or single woman with children who has a full-time or parttime job. The research methodology of this study entails a descriptive study. Research methods include a word and concept analysis to clarify concepts central to the title of the study. A literature study was conducted to clarify self-awareness as it manifests in the everyday lives of women today. Self-awareness can be described as a woman's inner contact with herself, which reflects her deepest values, motives and attitudes in all dimensions of life. According to this study, self-awareness is the all-encompassing term that includes self-concept, self-acceptance, self-efficacy, self-estimation and self-control. Each and every woman should know who she really is. This implies that a woman should be fully aware of her values in life, i.e. what really matters to her. It is therefore important that she engages herself in a process of value-clarification in order to align her daily activities according to these values. This study also focused on the role which personal leadership can play in establishing better self-awareness. Personal leadership is described as a principleand character-based approach to assist women to achieve a greater sense of selfawareness. Personal leadership can be described as a process of coaching a person towards a better understanding of who she is and where she currently finds herself in life, as well as where she comes from and in what direction she wants to go. This process can assist women to develop a greater sense of self-awareness and serve as a constant reminder of those aspects that are really most important in life. Through personal leadership she will find her true values, and obtain in-depth knowledge of herself, her motives and driving forces in life. She will know what she aims to achieve, and what she would like to be remembered for. Greater selfawareness will also serve as a compass for living more effectively. This woman will experience less inner conflict, organize her daily activities better and in this process will become that which she truly strives to be.
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- Authors: Venter, Anchen
- Date: 2012-09-07
- Subjects: Leadership , Theory of self-knowledge , Women - Psychology , Women - Identity
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/388466 , uj:9746 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7155
- Description: M.Phil. , Women today find themselves in a dilemma due to a conflict in role expectations. The purpose of this study is to investigate this dilemma, as well as the role of selfawareness, values and personal leadership in this regard. The main objective is to clearly define the concept self-awareness and what it entails for women today, and secondly to investigate the role of value-clarification in this regard. Finally, the focus of this study is on the contribution that personal leadership can make to the development of self-awareness of women today. The focus of this study is the middle-class, married or single woman with children who has a full-time or parttime job. The research methodology of this study entails a descriptive study. Research methods include a word and concept analysis to clarify concepts central to the title of the study. A literature study was conducted to clarify self-awareness as it manifests in the everyday lives of women today. Self-awareness can be described as a woman's inner contact with herself, which reflects her deepest values, motives and attitudes in all dimensions of life. According to this study, self-awareness is the all-encompassing term that includes self-concept, self-acceptance, self-efficacy, self-estimation and self-control. Each and every woman should know who she really is. This implies that a woman should be fully aware of her values in life, i.e. what really matters to her. It is therefore important that she engages herself in a process of value-clarification in order to align her daily activities according to these values. This study also focused on the role which personal leadership can play in establishing better self-awareness. Personal leadership is described as a principleand character-based approach to assist women to achieve a greater sense of selfawareness. Personal leadership can be described as a process of coaching a person towards a better understanding of who she is and where she currently finds herself in life, as well as where she comes from and in what direction she wants to go. This process can assist women to develop a greater sense of self-awareness and serve as a constant reminder of those aspects that are really most important in life. Through personal leadership she will find her true values, and obtain in-depth knowledge of herself, her motives and driving forces in life. She will know what she aims to achieve, and what she would like to be remembered for. Greater selfawareness will also serve as a compass for living more effectively. This woman will experience less inner conflict, organize her daily activities better and in this process will become that which she truly strives to be.
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Identity rebuilding for a woman living in an expatriate situation : an auto-ethnographic study
- Authors: Odendaal, Hiltje
- Date: 2012-08-14
- Subjects: Leadership in women , Leadership - Psychological aspects , Success in business , Self-actualization (Psychology) , Women - Identity
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: uj:9235 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5683
- Description: M.Phil. , The purpose of this research was to answer the following question: Can PPL (personal and professional leadership) in any way provides an explanation for what happens in the life of an expatriate woman and can it contribute to the reconstruction of the life of a woman living in an expatriate situation? In order to answer the research question, the research was divided into two distinguishable parts. In the first part an examination of the loss of identity the expatriate woman experiences was discussed within the context of the PPL (personal and professional leadership) leadership model. The conclusion reached was that the expatriate woman is left vulnerable and disorientated because of the absence of essential and familiar leadership levels, and her own culture and country. Familiar roles and own identity need to be reshaped. In the second part of the research the rebuilding of a new identity was discussed within the context of the PPL (personal- and professional leadership) dimensional model. This model was explored for its potential in assisting the expatriate woman to understand fundamental dimensions in need of being developed in order to find a sense of purpose, meaning and hope in this time of change. The conclusion was that the PPL dimensional model can be successfully utilised in rebuilding the identity. The importance of this model lies in its fundamental belief that human beings are primarily spiritual beings and that this dimension is the source of the need to serve others, to contribute, to "matter", to make a difference and to have a sense of meaning and purpose. This research was concluding to introduce a PPL leadership model within the context of country and culture with a final conclusion that PPL can both assist in understanding what happened to the expatriate woman and in providing a tool for assisting and planning the identity rebuilding process. This was an auto-ethnographic study.
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- Authors: Odendaal, Hiltje
- Date: 2012-08-14
- Subjects: Leadership in women , Leadership - Psychological aspects , Success in business , Self-actualization (Psychology) , Women - Identity
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: uj:9235 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5683
- Description: M.Phil. , The purpose of this research was to answer the following question: Can PPL (personal and professional leadership) in any way provides an explanation for what happens in the life of an expatriate woman and can it contribute to the reconstruction of the life of a woman living in an expatriate situation? In order to answer the research question, the research was divided into two distinguishable parts. In the first part an examination of the loss of identity the expatriate woman experiences was discussed within the context of the PPL (personal and professional leadership) leadership model. The conclusion reached was that the expatriate woman is left vulnerable and disorientated because of the absence of essential and familiar leadership levels, and her own culture and country. Familiar roles and own identity need to be reshaped. In the second part of the research the rebuilding of a new identity was discussed within the context of the PPL (personal- and professional leadership) dimensional model. This model was explored for its potential in assisting the expatriate woman to understand fundamental dimensions in need of being developed in order to find a sense of purpose, meaning and hope in this time of change. The conclusion was that the PPL dimensional model can be successfully utilised in rebuilding the identity. The importance of this model lies in its fundamental belief that human beings are primarily spiritual beings and that this dimension is the source of the need to serve others, to contribute, to "matter", to make a difference and to have a sense of meaning and purpose. This research was concluding to introduce a PPL leadership model within the context of country and culture with a final conclusion that PPL can both assist in understanding what happened to the expatriate woman and in providing a tool for assisting and planning the identity rebuilding process. This was an auto-ethnographic study.
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Mapping linkages between image and text : an investigation of Willem Boshoff's Bread and pebble roadmap in relation to emergent Afrikaner identities
- Authors: Richardson, Adena
- Date: 2015-07-14
- Subjects: Boshoff, Willem, 1951-. Bread and pebble roadmap , Afrikaners - Ethnic identity , Women - Identity , Group identity in art , Language and culture , Islam and art
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:13719 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13985
- Description: M.Tech. (Fine Art) , In this research, I map emergent female Afrikaner identities in relation to Willem Boshoff‟s artwork Bread and Pebble Roadmap, which acts as the central focus to this study and informs my own body of practical work. In order to constitute a key to unlock questions regarding emergent female Afrikaner identities in a South African context from colonial to post-apartheid, the relationship between image and text in Bread and Pebble Roadmap is investigated. The investigation of this relationship is interwoven with a discourse of an early form of the literary tradition that has come to be known as Arabic-Afrikaans script, a term used to describe the "literary work which is written in Afrikaans with Arabic letters" (Van Selms 1951). This study adopts a qualitative methodological approach. The research incorporates textual analysis and visual analysis. The study presents a visual semiotic analysis of Bread and Pebble Roadmap, in order to map possible links between this artwork and a literature review of an early form of Arabic-Afrikaans script, as a contextual framework in which to situate the study. Arabic- Afrikaans, in turn, acts as a link which forges a relationship between two kinds of identities: an Islamic influence on South African culture, and an Islamic influence on my life experience as an Afrikaans-speaking woman who lived in Egypt for four years. These two identities, represented by artist Lalla Essaydi in relation to an Islamic identity and artist Lizelle Kruger in relation to an Afrikaner identity, are investigated through a comparative visual analysis. The study intends to show how Essaydi and Kruger form a link with Boshoff, where each of these three artists subverts, questions, and breaks down prevailing cultural and linguistic stereotypes, and in so doing operationalises the notion of an emergent identity. Identity construction, in the context of this study, is characterised by Stuart Hall‟s (in Rutherford 1990:222) concept of identity being in a continual state of flux, identity as “a production, which is never complete; always in process and always constructed within, not outside representation”. I therefore map my Afrikaner identity, previously seen as fixed, unproblematic and in line with the national discourse under apartheid (Van Heerden 2006), but now seen as „becoming‟ and „transitioning‟, situated „betwixt and between‟ (Turner 1969). This notion informs my own practical work, which becomes visual metaphors of maps, in order to navigate a sense of self. My practical work therefore attempts to embody a temporary space of an emergent identity. I understand this in-between space (Bhabha 2004) as a liminal space, as a continuum of spaces in which my emergent female Afrikaner identity resides. An important conclusion that I make from my research is that Boshoff‟s conflation of image and text, which is consistent with Derrida‟s (1981) deconstructive strategy, unhinges the conditions of the stereotype, which conventionally privileges a dichotomy in which different polar relations reside. Drawing a connection between Bread and Pebble Roadmap and Arabic-Afrikaans, and applying the conditions found in Bread and Pebble Roadmap to Arabic-Afrikaans, I view Arabic- Afrikaans as able to unhinge its own seeming dichotomies: between Arabic and Afrikaans, and thus between Islam and Christianity. In this way, I am able to argue that Arabic-Afrikaans is able to reverse stereotyping and point a way forward towards the construction of emergent non-racial stereotyping.
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- Authors: Richardson, Adena
- Date: 2015-07-14
- Subjects: Boshoff, Willem, 1951-. Bread and pebble roadmap , Afrikaners - Ethnic identity , Women - Identity , Group identity in art , Language and culture , Islam and art
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:13719 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13985
- Description: M.Tech. (Fine Art) , In this research, I map emergent female Afrikaner identities in relation to Willem Boshoff‟s artwork Bread and Pebble Roadmap, which acts as the central focus to this study and informs my own body of practical work. In order to constitute a key to unlock questions regarding emergent female Afrikaner identities in a South African context from colonial to post-apartheid, the relationship between image and text in Bread and Pebble Roadmap is investigated. The investigation of this relationship is interwoven with a discourse of an early form of the literary tradition that has come to be known as Arabic-Afrikaans script, a term used to describe the "literary work which is written in Afrikaans with Arabic letters" (Van Selms 1951). This study adopts a qualitative methodological approach. The research incorporates textual analysis and visual analysis. The study presents a visual semiotic analysis of Bread and Pebble Roadmap, in order to map possible links between this artwork and a literature review of an early form of Arabic-Afrikaans script, as a contextual framework in which to situate the study. Arabic- Afrikaans, in turn, acts as a link which forges a relationship between two kinds of identities: an Islamic influence on South African culture, and an Islamic influence on my life experience as an Afrikaans-speaking woman who lived in Egypt for four years. These two identities, represented by artist Lalla Essaydi in relation to an Islamic identity and artist Lizelle Kruger in relation to an Afrikaner identity, are investigated through a comparative visual analysis. The study intends to show how Essaydi and Kruger form a link with Boshoff, where each of these three artists subverts, questions, and breaks down prevailing cultural and linguistic stereotypes, and in so doing operationalises the notion of an emergent identity. Identity construction, in the context of this study, is characterised by Stuart Hall‟s (in Rutherford 1990:222) concept of identity being in a continual state of flux, identity as “a production, which is never complete; always in process and always constructed within, not outside representation”. I therefore map my Afrikaner identity, previously seen as fixed, unproblematic and in line with the national discourse under apartheid (Van Heerden 2006), but now seen as „becoming‟ and „transitioning‟, situated „betwixt and between‟ (Turner 1969). This notion informs my own practical work, which becomes visual metaphors of maps, in order to navigate a sense of self. My practical work therefore attempts to embody a temporary space of an emergent identity. I understand this in-between space (Bhabha 2004) as a liminal space, as a continuum of spaces in which my emergent female Afrikaner identity resides. An important conclusion that I make from my research is that Boshoff‟s conflation of image and text, which is consistent with Derrida‟s (1981) deconstructive strategy, unhinges the conditions of the stereotype, which conventionally privileges a dichotomy in which different polar relations reside. Drawing a connection between Bread and Pebble Roadmap and Arabic-Afrikaans, and applying the conditions found in Bread and Pebble Roadmap to Arabic-Afrikaans, I view Arabic- Afrikaans as able to unhinge its own seeming dichotomies: between Arabic and Afrikaans, and thus between Islam and Christianity. In this way, I am able to argue that Arabic-Afrikaans is able to reverse stereotyping and point a way forward towards the construction of emergent non-racial stereotyping.
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Women on a roll : how members of the C-Max Roller Derby League in Johannesburg, South Africa, construct their gender identities
- Authors: Schlebusch, Nadine
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Self-perception in women - South Africa - Johannesburg. , Gender identity - South Africa - Johannesburg , Women - Identity , Femininity
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/237074 , uj:24284
- Description: M.A. (Sociology) , Abstract: This study explores how the members of the C-Max Roller Derby League, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, construct their gender identities. Previous research has shown that roller derby impacts on how skaters construct their gendered selves, empowering them as women and athletes. This study adds to the understanding of the impact of roller derby, a context in which there is a dichotomy between masculinity and femininity, on the gender identities of participants. A qualitative approach was employed, using in-depth interviews and observation, in order to understand participants’ views on their participation in roller derby and how it consequently shapes their notions and experiences of gender. The study found that roller derby is a contested space in which the need to create an alternative environment for women is being penetrated by normative gendered notions of sporting behaviour. Despite the fact that roller derby is thought to be a context in which alternate gender arrangements exist, the findings show that patriarchal ideals continue to influence the women who participate in roller derby and that normative gender arrangements persist and dictate how gender is constructed and performed. The study also shows that, within the context of roller derby, femininity is expressed in a multiplicity of ways and that there is a constant interplay between expressions of masculinity and femininity. Finally, the research found that female skaters continue to struggle to establish their legitimacy as athletes within the male-dominated sporting domain of South Africa.
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- Authors: Schlebusch, Nadine
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Self-perception in women - South Africa - Johannesburg. , Gender identity - South Africa - Johannesburg , Women - Identity , Femininity
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/237074 , uj:24284
- Description: M.A. (Sociology) , Abstract: This study explores how the members of the C-Max Roller Derby League, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, construct their gender identities. Previous research has shown that roller derby impacts on how skaters construct their gendered selves, empowering them as women and athletes. This study adds to the understanding of the impact of roller derby, a context in which there is a dichotomy between masculinity and femininity, on the gender identities of participants. A qualitative approach was employed, using in-depth interviews and observation, in order to understand participants’ views on their participation in roller derby and how it consequently shapes their notions and experiences of gender. The study found that roller derby is a contested space in which the need to create an alternative environment for women is being penetrated by normative gendered notions of sporting behaviour. Despite the fact that roller derby is thought to be a context in which alternate gender arrangements exist, the findings show that patriarchal ideals continue to influence the women who participate in roller derby and that normative gender arrangements persist and dictate how gender is constructed and performed. The study also shows that, within the context of roller derby, femininity is expressed in a multiplicity of ways and that there is a constant interplay between expressions of masculinity and femininity. Finally, the research found that female skaters continue to struggle to establish their legitimacy as athletes within the male-dominated sporting domain of South Africa.
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