Agency, Social Status and Performing Marriage in Postcolonial Societies

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 980-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Dery ◽  
Sylvia Bawa
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Women’S Agency

This article examines contextually-grounded perspectives on the socio-political significance of marriage in contemporary Ghanaian society. Drawing on qualitative interviews among men and women in northwestern Ghana, this article argues that, beyond historicizing the institution of monogamous marriage, women’s agency in desiring, and navigating marriages are performatively agentic and tied to attaining a myriad of socio-cultural, economic and political capital. Situated within the constrained articulations of participants, our findings alert us to complex negotiations and manoeuvres through which men and women aspire for specific forms of masculinities and femininities within the larger gender hierarchies.

Stepping into a Feminist Minefield: Women Sex Offenders

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee FitzRoy
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
Women’S Agency

This article seeks to initiate discussion on the issue of women, specifically mothers, who perpetrate sexual violence against children and explore some tentative theorisations as to how we can understand this complex form of sexual violence. The analysis and discussion will be located within a feminist contextual framework that draws upon contemporary feminist and postmodern theory. Within this discussion, the article will be drawing on the understanding of such violence from the experiences of victim/survivors, other practitioners and a broad range of theorists. In exploring the issue, the article will endeavor to provide a more complex understanding of the issue of women's agency and capacity for violence, the possible wide ranging impacts of phallocentricism and the consequences of such violence in the lives of children, men and women.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the feminist agenda in selected female authored Zimbabwean literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Salachi Naidoo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
African Feminism ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Gender Based

This article investigates the feminist agenda in female authored Zimbabwean literature, with emphasis on the novel. It focuses largely on Virginia Phiri's Destiny and Highway Queen as well as Violet Masilo's The African Tea Cosy. The paper argues that Zimbabwean female authorship is flavoured with precepts of African feminism(s) in its representations of African women's agency in gender adversities. Framed within African feminism, women's agency derives from and gives meaning to an inescapable African-ness that needs to be accepted in the fight for emancipation. In light of this, the study analyses Zimbabwean women writers’ literary contributions to discourses on gender based violence and it explores how female characters have embraced the concept of agency to recreate their identities and to introduce a new gender ethos in the context of lives that are often shaped by severe restrictions and oppression. Although largely women focused, the African feminist text is concerned about the survival of both men and women.

Young, Single and Employed: Jordanian Women’s Voices on Impact of Work

1970 ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Mary Kawar
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Urban Working

There is an increasing visibility of young urban working women in Amman, Jordan. As compared to previous generations, this group is experiencing a new life cycle trajectory of single employed adulthood. Based on qualitative interviews with young women, this paper will reflect on their experiences and perceptions regarding work, social status and marriage.

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