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Dery, Isaac
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2022-01-18T15:33:33Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-01-18T15:33:33Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-08-19 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519869066 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28448 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Critical studies on men and masculinities have gained significant momentum in feminist scholarship in the past decades. The growing interest in feminist scholarship has focused broadly on how male-bodied people construct, negotiate, and express masculine identities. Despite this growing interest, insufficient attention has explored how rurally based Ghanaian men construct and negotiate their masculinities in intimate relationships. Situated within critical discursive psychology and drawing on 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews and 6 focus group discussions with adult men in northwestern Ghana, the results show that dominant notions of masculinity provide a broad context through which participants’ narratives, negotiations, and experiences on intimate partner violence could be understood. Findings suggest that various cultural narratives and metaphors were deployed to support men’s controlling behaviors and/or intimate violence against women. The implications of how harmful masculine ideologies could frustrate efforts that target the development and promotion of a socially just and less oppressive society are presented and discussed. |
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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding for this study was part of a doctoral fellowship supported by the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship and Association of African Universities (AAU) Small Grant for Thesis Completion. However, the funders did not contribute to the design, data collection, analysis, and writing of this manuscript. |
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dc.publisher |
Sage Publishing |
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dc.subject |
Ghana |
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dc.subject |
Masculinities |
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dc.subject |
Intimate partner violence |
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dc.subject |
controlling behaviour |
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dc.subject |
gender norms |
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dc.title |
“Give Her a Slap or Two . . . She Might Change”: Negotiating Masculinities Through Intimate Partner Violence Among Rural Ghanaian Men |
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dc.type |
Article |
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dc.description.department |
Institute for Social and Health Studies (ISHS) |
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