Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages

dc.contributor.advisorWagner, Claireen
dc.contributor.emailmatete09md@gmail.comen
dc.contributor.postgraduateDiako, Delpha Mateteen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-06T22:27:36Z
dc.date.available2013-06-27en
dc.date.available2013-09-06T22:27:36Z
dc.date.created2013-04-11en
dc.date.issued2012en
dc.date.submitted2013-06-15en
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.en
dc.description.abstractLiterature on marriage shows that in the span of a single generation it has become the norm for both spouses to work outside the home. The inception of dual career marriages in the 1970s has created challenges and complications in the marital system as women break traditional gender roles in families and lead the way toward equality at home, just as they do in the industrial world. Black South African communities are no exception to this trend. The theoretical framework of social constructionism was used to identify the ways in which the participants construct their identities as Black professional women in dual career marriages. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 Black professional women in dual career marriages to identify the discourses that construct their marriages, their autonomy in marriage and how their construction of autonomy influences their construction of marital satisfaction. The study found that cultural and Christian discourses inform the ways in which the participants construct marriage, autonomy and marital satisfaction. Although the participants construct themselves as empowered and autonomous individuals, particularly in the workplace, they construct themselves as less autonomous within their marriages despite their expressed need to be seen as equal partners. As a result of their dual identities the participants consciously adopt different behaviours in different contexts and in this way reproduce dominant constructions of women.en
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.departmentPsychologyen
dc.identifier.citationDiako, DM 2012, Discourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriages, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25564 >en
dc.identifier.otherD13/4/697/agen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06152013-155808/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/25564
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2012 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.en
dc.subjectDiscourse analysisen
dc.subjectSocial constructionismen
dc.subjectFeminist discourseen
dc.subjectAutonomyen
dc.subjectQualitative researchen
dc.subjectDual career marriageen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectProfessional womenen
dc.subjectMarital satisfactionen
dc.subjectChristianityen
dc.subjectPoweren
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleDiscourses on autonomy and marital satisfaction among black women in dual-career marriagesen
dc.typeThesisen

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