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Title Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2664
Date 2013
Author(s) Bongwana, Thembelihle
Abstract 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.
Subject(s) fatherhood; masculinities; traditional norms; Ubuntu; support
Language eng
Publisher University of Cape Town
Relation Knowledge Co-op project #99. Fathers as single parents
Type of publication Thesis; Text
Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/; Knowledge Co-op; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Repository Cape Town - OpenUCT, University of Cape Town
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