Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage
| dc.contributor.author | Moore, Elena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-11T09:52:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-11T09:52:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-10T09:12:14Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper explores women's daily practice of resistance built into the racialised and gendered social structure of customary marriages in South Africa. I argue that women resist, accommodate, adapt and contest power and authority in the decision to leave the marriage, in negotiating the exit from the marriage and in their approach to the financial consequences of the separation. By using the myriad of daily practices as evidence for resistance, the study identifies three forms of femininities which emerge from the data: emphasised femininity characterises women's compliance with women's subordination, ambivalent femininity describes a complex combination of compliance and resistant activities in women practices and alternative femininities typifies the rejection and resistance with women's subordination. The paper discusses how these different forms of femininity emerge in their specific cultural, class and temporal context. The findings reveal that the resistance practices are accompanied by more general ideological awareness of how gender and class shape the lives of these women at this time of transition. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Moore, E. (2014). <i>Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19589 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Moore, Elena <i>Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19589 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Moore, E. (2015). Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage. Gender & Society, 0891243215599646. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Moore, Elena AB - This paper explores women's daily practice of resistance built into the racialised and gendered social structure of customary marriages in South Africa. I argue that women resist, accommodate, adapt and contest power and authority in the decision to leave the marriage, in negotiating the exit from the marriage and in their approach to the financial consequences of the separation. By using the myriad of daily practices as evidence for resistance, the study identifies three forms of femininities which emerge from the data: emphasised femininity characterises women's compliance with women's subordination, ambivalent femininity describes a complex combination of compliance and resistant activities in women practices and alternative femininities typifies the rejection and resistance with women's subordination. The paper discusses how these different forms of femininity emerge in their specific cultural, class and temporal context. The findings reveal that the resistance practices are accompanied by more general ideological awareness of how gender and class shape the lives of these women at this time of transition. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage TI - Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19589 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19589 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Moore E. Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage. 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19589 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Forms of Femininity at the End of a Customary Marriage | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |