Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
| Τίτλος: |
Exploring discourses of masculinities amongst young adult men in the Western Cape who stutter |
| Συγγραφείς: |
Isaacs, Dane Henry |
| Συνεισφορές: |
Swartz, Leslie, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology. |
| Έτος έκδοσης: |
2021 |
| Συλλογή: |
Stellenbosch University: SUNScholar Research Repository |
| Θεματικοί όροι: |
UCTD, Ethnology, Discourse analysis, Focused group interviewing, Stutterers, Masculinity |
| Περιγραφή: |
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ; ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stuttering has traditionally been described as a multifaceted communication disorder that affects approximately 1% of the global population. The prevalence of stuttering is four times greater in males than in females. For the last few decades, researchers have examined the personal and social experiences of people who stutter. However, issues of masculinity which may be associated with disabling aspects of stuttering have not been adequately addressed in the existing body of knowledge. In this qualitative study, my aim was to present a broad narrative of the disabling experience of stuttering and its relationship to issues of masculinity. It was from an insider position and a disability studies perspective that I approached my research study. Therefore, in my dissertation, I firstly present two analytic autoethnographic accounts of my personal disabling experiences of stuttering as a way of understanding broader issues of stuttering and disablement. I then move on to explore the discourses of masculinities among 15 young adult men, in the Western Cape Province, who stutter, through a biopsychosocial model of disability. In addition, I also explore participants’ understanding of stuttering as a disability. Data for the empirical aspect of my research study were collected through a series of 49 semi- structured interviews and two focus group discussions, and analysed according to a phenomenological approach, using Edley’s approach to discourse analysis and influenced by the affective turn in social research. The findings showed that men in my research study predominately relied on hegemonic ideals to formulate their masculine identities. However, stuttering was viewed as a barrier for the performance of hegemonic masculinities. As result, men reported a reduced self-esteem and feeling disabled, emasculated, and shameful as men who stutter. For a subset of men who identified as Muslim, there was an overlay of what they saw as religious and cultural ... |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: |
thesis |
| Περιγραφή αρχείου: |
258 pages; application/pdf |
| Γλώσσα: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123718 |
| Διαθεσιμότητα: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123718 |
| Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: |
edsbas.51A26B05 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: |
BASE |