Browsing by Subject "Masculinities"
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Developing an intergovernmental approach in addressing gender-based violence : a focus on the Ikageng and Promosa suburbs of the Tlokwe Local Municipality
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Gender-based violence (GBV) and its legislation, policies and programmes are complex and diverse in their very nature. GBV has various dimensions within society and is therefore, embedded in the social, economic and political ... -
Personhoods and meanings of adolescent masculinities in a North-West secondary school
(North-West University (South Africa), 2024-07)This thesis provides insight into what the data suggests can be understood as the stage of ‘becoming’ of five adolescent boys in their habitual spaces of learning and living as analysed through the theoretical lens of ... -
Silent sufferers : a sociological exploration of gender-based violence against South African men by women
(North-West University (South Africa), 2023)GBV has become an epidemic in Southern Africa. With a growing body of research and policies centred on GBV, the phenomenon is largely understood from the male-inflicting-harm-on-female standpoint. Consider the following ... -
Uneasy images, unstable identities: inscriptions of masculinities in selected post-independent Zimbabwean literary texts
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)This thesis is premised on the notion that gender and gender studies are essentially dialogic. This highlights the fact that both male and female subjects are gendered and none exist as closed off or isolated sub-sets or ...