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Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities
This is a qualitative study that explores meanings around fatherhood among Xhosa fathers in Cape Town. In so doing, the dissertation goes on to explore attitudes, beliefs, and needs of these township fathers have with regards to taking care of their children. This is a descriptive and exploratory qu...
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| description | This is a qualitative study that explores meanings around fatherhood among Xhosa fathers in Cape Town. In so doing, the dissertation goes on to explore attitudes, beliefs, and needs of these township fathers have with regards to taking care of their children. This is a descriptive and exploratory qualitative study which was conducted with a sample of 4 Xhosa fathers. Responses around fathering clustered into the following themes: challenging notions of nurturing as women's roles, changing patterns in fatherhood, fatherhood as a process, multiple ways of fathering, communal and familial support structures, and deviation from ‘traditional' norms and ‘traditional' ideas around fathering. The fathers in this study identified a number of benefits and opportunities to being good fathers who were actively involved in their children's lives. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/2664 Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities Bongwana, Thembelihle fatherhood masculinities traditional norms Ubuntu support This is a qualitative study that explores meanings around fatherhood among Xhosa fathers in Cape Town. In so doing, the dissertation goes on to explore attitudes, beliefs, and needs of these township fathers have with regards to taking care of their children. This is a descriptive and exploratory qualitative study which was conducted with a sample of 4 Xhosa fathers. Responses around fathering clustered into the following themes: challenging notions of nurturing as women's roles, changing patterns in fatherhood, fatherhood as a process, multiple ways of fathering, communal and familial support structures, and deviation from ‘traditional' norms and ‘traditional' ideas around fathering. The fathers in this study identified a number of benefits and opportunities to being good fathers who were actively involved in their children's lives. 2014-07-28T06:49:48Z 2014-07-28T06:49:48Z 2013-10 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2664 eng Knowledge Co-op project #99. Fathers as single parents Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Knowledge Co-op http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Gender Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | fatherhood masculinities traditional norms Ubuntu support Bongwana, Thembelihle Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| title | Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| title_full | Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| title_fullStr | Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| title_short | Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| title_sort | masculinities and fatherhood in a south african context exploring xhosa men s experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities |
| topic | fatherhood masculinities traditional norms Ubuntu support |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2664 |
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