Male Powerlessness: Men and Intimate Partner Violence

Emmanuel Rowlands

Description

Male Powerlessness investigates black African men’s lived encounters with intimate partner violence (IPV) and the ways in which these men make sense of, and struggle to overcome, their unprecedented experiences of abuse at a time when research on women’s experiences of gender-based violence is expanding. In the transnational and dynamic gender environment of the City of Johannesburg, men (local and immigrant) engage in short- and long-term relationships that are typically marked by contestation and conflict. This book examines how men may become abused in heterosexual relationships, a topic that has received little attention in South African literature. The book examines the impact of IPV on black African men’s masculine identities and helps us understand the many masculine constructs that abused men may articulate. The book explores male powerlessness and its implications for men’s experiences of IPV and masculine well-being. The book makes an invaluable contribution from an empirical, methodological, and theoretical viewpoint to the corpus of gender-based violence literature that will interest students of sociology, criminology, social work, sexual politics, feminism, and critical men’s studies, among others.Emmanuel Rowlands is a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg and the author of “She is trying to control me”: African Men’s Lived Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg (2021), and Hegemonic Masculinity and Male Powerlessness: A Reflection on African Men’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence (2021), and Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and Insider Researcher Dynamics: Reflections on Investigating Violence against Men in Intimate Relationships (2022), and Constructing Victimisation as Masculine Honour: Men and Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg (2022).

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Violence
• Masculinity
• IPV
• Domestic violence

Informations

• Publié par: UJ Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776444670
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Male Powerlessness

Men and Intimate Partner Violence

Emmanuel Rowlands

Male Powerlessness: Men and Intîmate Partner Vîolence

Publîshed by UJ Press Unîversîty o Johannesburg Lîbrary Auckland Park Kîngsway Campus PO Box 524 Auckland Park 2006 https://ujonlînepress.uj.ac.za/

Compîlatîon © Emmanuel Rowlands 2023

Chapters © Emmanuel Rowlands 2023

Publîshed Edîtîon © Emmanuel Rowlands 2023

Fîrst publîshed 2023

https://doî.org/10.36615/9781776444670

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Contents

Foreword .................................................................

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Male Power and Intîmate Partner Vîolence ...................

2 Makîng Sense and Shapîng the Study: Theory and Conceptualîsatîon ...................................................................

3 Researchîng Vîolence agaînst Men ..............................................................................

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4 “Fîght, Fîght, Fîght, Fîght, Fîght Every Day”: Endurîng Female Partner Abuse ........................................ 105

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Drîver Factors o Men’s Abuse ........................................... 139

6 Conceptîons o Manhood and Power .................................................................................. 175

7 Male Power or Powerlessness: Interpretîng the Impact o IPV on Black Arîcan Men’s Manhood Conceptîons .............................................................................. 187

8 Concludîng 209Reflectîon ...........................................................

9 Theory, Polîcy and Practîce Impact Recommendatîons ................................................................ 223

Reerences ......................................................................................... 231

Glossary o Key concepts ............................................................. 269

To the I Am.

Wîth love and apprecîatîon or Pro. Kammîla Naîdoo and Pro. Tapîwa Chagonda, thank you or your remarkable contrîbutîon.

Apprecîatîon to the Unîversîty o Johannesburg or grantîng me the URC Internatîonal Scholarshîp or the undîng o thîs project.