Research Articles (Sociology)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58322024-03-28T22:40:46Z2024-03-28T22:40:46ZCisgender men’s narratives about their desires to be pregnant : re/constructing reproduction, gender, and their entanglementMavuso, Jabulile Mary-Jane JaceChadwick, Rachelle Joyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/950642024-03-05T22:50:04Z2024-01-01T00:00:00ZCisgender men’s narratives about their desires to be pregnant : re/constructing reproduction, gender, and their entanglement
Mavuso, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace; Chadwick, Rachelle Joy
Pregnancy capacity, and gestational desire are shared by people of different genders and sexes. Yet, gestational embodiment and subjectivity are feminized in the normative cisheteropatriarchal pregnancy imaginary where cisgender non-intersex women are constructed as essentialized pregnant subjects. An important part of this normative pregnancy imaginary is the preclusion of men’s desires to be pregnant, and the medico-socio-cultural construction and enforcement of men as non-gestational and non-uterine subjects. This construction of masculinity and manhood is reflected in much pregnancy-related research conducted among cisgender men, but is subverted by research on trans men’s and masculine people’s pregnancy and birth experiences, and by some depictions of cis men’s pregnancies in some novels, fanfiction and films. Set against this backdrop, in this article we report on the results of a qualitative study conducted in South Africa in which six cisgender men with diverse identities and geo-locations were asked about their desires to be pregnant. Using a narrative-discursive approach, we analyse micro-narratives constructed by participants in which they speak about their desires to be pregnant and/or gestational parents. We argue that their micro-narratives both challenge and reproduce normative discourses on masculinities and sex/gender more broadly, pregnancy, reproduction and parenthood, and their presumed entanglement.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZAccess heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana : implications for water and development policyAmankwaa, GodfredBusia, Kwaku AbrefaAgbadi, PascalDuah, Henry O.Arthur-Holmes, Francishttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/948232024-02-22T22:47:25Z2024-01-01T00:00:00ZAccess heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana : implications for water and development policy
Amankwaa, Godfred; Busia, Kwaku Abrefa; Agbadi, Pascal; Duah, Henry O.; Arthur-Holmes, Francis
Time poverty remains a critical issue for water access across the globe. However, research on the time spent for water collection and the factors associated with collection time inequalities and access heterogeneities is limited, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on the 2014 Ghana’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, and statistical and spatial analysis, we apply the concept of “everydayness” of water collection time poverty to examine the factors associated with water collection time inequalities and access heterogeneities of drinking water sources in Ghana. Our analysis shows that 8.6% of households face drinking water collection time poverty and this is prevalent and significant across different socio-economic groups and geographies. The observed geographical heterogeneity and collection time inequality in drinking water sources in this paper adds to the literature in terms of variation in household water insecurity across time and space. The water policy implications of these findings are discussed, and we highlight strategies to rethink drinking water security in the Global South.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZTransnational perspectives on food, ecology and the anthropoceneLewis, DesireeReddy, VasuMafofo, Lynnhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/940952024-01-25T22:49:00Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTransnational perspectives on food, ecology and the anthropocene
Lewis, Desiree; Reddy, Vasu; Mafofo, Lynn
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2023-01-01T00:00:00ZSplice : gendered narratives of spices as healingNaidoo, DheeReddy, Vasuhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/940932024-01-25T22:48:34Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZSplice : gendered narratives of spices as healing
Naidoo, Dhee; Reddy, Vasu
This article focuses on the uses of spice as a method of healing in selected dishes within a Durban Indian foodscape. Beyond its culinary potential (taste, flavour, seasoning), the article motivates spice as having particular utilities and meanings that have bearing upon social, cultural and gender issues pertinent to food preparation as well as consumption which ultimately influences health and well-being. Methodologically it engages conceptual insights from the critical literature on food, including its gendered parameters, and frames a description of a few pertinent dishes drawn from five interviews in a larger project on food focused on its materiality and visceral dimensions.
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