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Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27841 Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga Naidoo, Kammila upetd@up.ac.za Seabi, Agnes Tshidi Sexual abuse Mpumalanga South africa Domestic violence Kwamhlanga Intimate partners UCTD Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Domestic violence is a pressing issue in South Africa and has been the subject of much debate, activism and academic research. It is commonly argued that violence between intimate partners remains largely hidden and that women in marital and cohabiting unions endure much physical, emotional and sexual abuse. This qualitative study focuses on the experiences of a small group of women living in KwaMhlanga, in Mpumalanga. Although the women had been fearful of reporting their abuse and had spent years suffering silently, all had finally displayed much urgency in reporting the actions of their abusers. In reflecting on their circumstances, the women refer to the primary factors influencing their partners to become abusers: unemployment, financial hardships and poverty, alcohol and drugs, and factors such as immature attitudes, cultural beliefs and jealousy. It is also argued that the institutions of ‘marriage’ and ‘cohabitation’, whilst similar, introduce slightly different constraints and expectations. Married women suffered more abuse and were controlled than their cohabitant counterparts. The study makes no policy recommendations but emphasises the importance of doing substantive work to probe women’s experiences of abuse in intimate unions in all parts of South Africa. Copyright Sociology unrestricted 2013-09-07T12:28:50Z 2010-09-09 2013-09-07T12:28:50Z 2010-04-14 2010-09-09 2010-09-09 Dissertation Seabi, AT 2009, Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga, MSocSci dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27841 > F10/568/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27841 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09092010-155031/ © 2009, 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 University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Sexual abuse Mpumalanga South africa Domestic violence Kwamhlanga Intimate partners UCTD Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga |
| title | Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga |
| title_full | Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga |
| title_fullStr | Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga |
| title_full_unstemmed | Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga |
| title_short | Marriage, cohabitation and domestic violence in Mpumalanga |
| title_sort | marriage cohabitation and domestic violence in mpumalanga |
| topic | Sexual abuse Mpumalanga South africa Domestic violence Kwamhlanga Intimate partners UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27841 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09092010-155031/ |