Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman'
Includes bibliographical references.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Sociology
2015
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867614102720872448 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Van der Westhuizen, Christi |
| author2 | Steyn, Melissa |
| author_browse | Steyn, Melissa Van der Westhuizen, Christi |
| author_facet | Steyn, Melissa Van der Westhuizen, Christi |
| author_sort | Van der Westhuizen, Christi |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12302 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:46:42.723Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publishDateRange | 2015 |
| publishDateSort | 2015 |
| publisher | Department of Sociology |
| publisherStr | Department of Sociology |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12302 Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' Van der Westhuizen, Christi Steyn, Melissa Sociology Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation explores the extent to which the post-apartheid democratic space in South Africa has allowed for the emergence of new identities for Afrikaans women beyond the normative Afrikaner nationalist volksmoeder [mother of the nation] ideal. The study interrogates Afrikaner subjectivities through the interpretive lens of ordentlikheid - an ethnicised respectability - at the intersections of gender, sexuality, class and race. Framed by the theoretical perspectives of Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Butler, the study employs discourse analysis across three phases: Firstly, an analysis of Sarie women's magazine, as an instrument of a culturally-sanctioned, normative discourse; secondly, an analysis of texts generated in focus group interviews with subjects who self-identify as women, white, heterosexual, middle-class and Afrikaans-speaking; and thirdly, an analysis of texts from individual in-depth interviews. 2015-01-27T08:59:35Z 2015-01-27T08:59:35Z 2013 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12302 eng application/pdf Department of Sociology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Sociology Van der Westhuizen, Christi Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' |
| title_full | Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' |
| title_fullStr | Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' |
| title_short | Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman' |
| title_sort | identities at the intersection of race gender sexuality and class in a liberalising democratising south africa the reconstitution of the afrikaner woman |
| topic | Sociology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12302 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT vanderwesthuizenchristi identitiesattheintersectionofracegendersexualityandclassinaliberalisingdemocratisingsouthafricathereconstitutionoftheafrikanerwoman |