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The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/57213 The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe McNeill, Fraser G. mushingam@yahoo.com Mushinga, Mildred UCTD Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015. This study examines the small house concept ?in Zimbabwe focusing on economically independent women s motives for engaging in sexual relationships with married men. ?Small house is a colloquial and derogatory term that describes a married man s quasi-polygamous, informal, long term, secret sexual relationship with another woman. General public and private discourse conceptualises the small house as survival transactional sex and as a key driver of Zimbabwe s HIV epidemic. Consequently, public health campaigns educate people about the dangers of small housing as part of multiple concurrent partnerships and sexual networks discourses linked to the HIV epidemic. While economic inequalities between genders exist globally, narrow focused frameworks embedded in health and poverty discourses do injustice to the diversity and complexity of sex research. Pinning women s motivations for engaging in ?small-houses to lack of empowerment, sexual agency and poverty excludes some categories of seemingly ?low-risk women including the educated, economically stable, high socio-economic status women who knowingly and ?willingly engage in these highly stigmatized sexual relationships. Such approaches to the small house phenomenon neglect the intricacies and complex interconnections between sexual intimacy, desires, economic strategising and political manoeuvring. My research investigated this complexity through exploring the meanings these women attach to being small houses and their experiences in these relationships as they are intertwined with broader changing social, economic, political and cultural contexts in which they are located. tm2016 Anthropology and Archaeology DPhil Unrestricted 2016-10-14T07:32:15Z 2016-10-14T07:32:15Z 2016-08-31 2015 Thesis Mushinga, M 2015, The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57213> S2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57213 en © 2016 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 | UCTD Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe |
| title | The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe |
| title_full | The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe |
| title_fullStr | The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe |
| title_full_unstemmed | The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe |
| title_short | The 'small-house' : an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | small house an ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in zimbabwe |
| topic | UCTD Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57213 |