For Better or Worse
This article argues that intimate wife abuse and gender-based violence (GBV) is fuelled by premarital counselling. The extent to which Christian and traditional indigenous premarital counselling encourage GBV in marriage contexts by promoting “dangerous masculine and feminine” conceptualisation of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UJ Press
2016-07-01
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| Series: | African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR) |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ajgr/article/view/1493 |
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| Summary: | This article argues that intimate wife abuse and gender-based violence (GBV) is fuelled by premarital counselling. The extent to which Christian and traditional indigenous premarital counselling encourage GBV in marriage contexts by promoting “dangerous masculine and feminine” conceptualisation of marriage, is explored via an autoethnographical methodology and an African feminist critical
hermeneutics approach. Findings indicate that the pedagogies of the traditional and Christian premarital counselling are gendered in a way that promotes and justifies intimate wife abuse in marriage contexts complicating women’s struggle with GBV.
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| ISSN: | 2707-2991 |