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Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25564 Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages Wagner, Claire matete09md@gmail.com Diako, Delpha Matete Discourse analysis Social constructionism Feminist discourse Autonomy Qualitative research Dual career marriage Culture Professional women Marital satisfaction Christianity Power UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Literature on marriage shows that in the span of a single generation it has become the norm for both spouses to work outside the home. The inception of dual career marriages in the 1970s has created challenges and complications in the marital system as women break traditional gender roles in families and lead the way toward equality at home, just as they do in the industrial world. Black South African communities are no exception to this trend. The theoretical framework of social constructionism was used to identify the ways in which the participants construct their identities as Black professional women in dual career marriages. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 Black professional women in dual career marriages to identify the discourses that construct their marriages, their autonomy in marriage and how their construction of autonomy influences their construction of marital satisfaction. The study found that cultural and Christian discourses inform the ways in which the participants construct marriage, autonomy and marital satisfaction. Although the participants construct themselves as empowered and autonomous individuals, particularly in the workplace, they construct themselves as less autonomous within their marriages despite their expressed need to be seen as equal partners. As a result of their dual identities the participants consciously adopt different behaviours in different contexts and in this way reproduce dominant constructions of women. Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-06T22:27:36Z 2013-06-27 2013-09-06T22:27:36Z 2013-04-11 2012 2013-06-15 Thesis Diako, DM 2012, Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25564 > D13/4/697/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25564 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06152013-155808/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Discourse analysis Social constructionism Feminist discourse Autonomy Qualitative research Dual career marriage Culture Professional women Marital satisfaction Christianity Power UCTD Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages |
| title | Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages |
| title_full | Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages |
| title_fullStr | Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages |
| title_short | Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages |
| title_sort | discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual career marriages |
| topic | Discourse analysis Social constructionism Feminist discourse Autonomy Qualitative research Dual career marriage Culture Professional women Marital satisfaction Christianity Power UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25564 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06152013-155808/ |