Grace Khunou

Biographic Data

ID126818
NAMEGrace Khunou
GIVEN NAMESGrace
FAMILY NAMEKhunou
SIGNATUREKHUNOU G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0001-9164-8379
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Rituals, family connections, and BoRakgadi

    Grace KhunouARTICLESocial Dynamics2023Cited by: 1References: 12

    African feminists and decolonial scholars have shown the importance of centring African socio-cultural context in our study of African societies. This includes the signifying of African languages, rituals, and roles of individual members at different times and places. They argue and have provided evidence to illustrate how not doing so can be detrimental to our analysis. To illustrate the significance of reading African socio-cultural contexts as…

  • Bomalome

    Motlalepule Nathane, Grace KhunouARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2021Cited by: 2References: 7

    Throughout Africa, there is recognition that the person fulfilling the role of a father may not always be the child’s biological father. This is clear in the seminal work Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, where Amadiume illustrates the significance of divorcing gender roles from biology. In the South African context, a similar notion is seen in Mkhize’s conception of Social Fathers. Like Amadiume, this study w…

  • Does the Black Middle Class Exist and Are We Members

    Grace Khunou, Kris Marsh et al.BOOKDoes the Black Middle Class Exist…2019

    Does the Black Middle Class Exist And Are We Members makes two contributions into the research of the black middle class. First, it explores how Black South Africans conceptualize middle classness. Second, it demonstrates how this conceptualization informs researchers' social identity within the Black middle class

  • Parental absence

    Open AccessMokoene Ziphora Kearabetswe, Grace Khunou et al.ARTICLECritical Social Policy2019Cited by: 2References: 10

    Most recently, the role of grandmothers has been highlighted as significant in the lives of their grandchildren in South Africa. Studies have previously highlighted the contribution the Old Age Grant makes in contexts of poverty, orphanhood and the migrant labour system. Similarly, studies on the Child Support Grant (CSG) have illustrated its contribution to the well-being of children and families in general. However, missing in these examination…

  • South Africa's Emergent Middle Class

    Grace KhunouEDITORBOOKSouth Africa's Emergent Middle…2017

  • Defining absent, unknown and undisclosed fathers in South Africa

    Tidimalo Padi, Mzikazi Nduna et al.ARTICLESociety in Transition2014

    The absence of fathers in African black families is high. Therefore research to understand how this impacts identity formation, the economic survival of households and generally how the phenomenon is understood by those who experience this absence, has been on the increase in South Africa. Nevertheless, there is little agreement on the meaning of the term, father absence. In an attempt to correct this, a study was undertaken in Mpumalanga provinc…

  • Are you your father's child? Social identity influences of father absence in a South African setting

    Petunia Smith, Grace Khunou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2014

    This study explored social identity influences of father absence on black South African young adults, including use of paternal surname. Informants were six young women and men between 21 and 35 years of age from a historically disadvantaged South African township. Data were collected through one-on-one in-depth interviews, and analyzed using thematic content analysis. Father absence was associated with lower self perceptions and non-use of pater…

  • Money and gender relations in the south african maintenance system

    Grace KhunouARTICLESociety in Transition2012

    Policy makers, in their endeavour to craft the state, treat social relations and legislation as neutral and impersonal. This detached engagement with social life is undertaken to facilitate a particular social order (Manicon 1992). In the maintenance system, this shaping of social life is also undertaken in how maintenance money is dealt with, in purely economic terms. Through a discussion of in-depth interviews with women and men who use the mai…

  • Making love possible

    Grace KhunouARTICLEAfrican Identities2012References: 5

    The cell phone plays a significant role in the constitution and maintenance of intimate relationships. It enables individual women and men to conceive and end relationships over great distances. It allows them to break the ice on initiation of relationships, whilst it also ‘softens’ their sense of appropriate gender roles, language and posture customary to face to face interactions. Recent research indicates that as much as cell phones influence …

  • Soweto Now

    Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini et al.ARTICLEPublic Culture2004Cited by: 9

    Research Article| September 01 2004 Soweto Now Achille Mbembe; Achille Mbembe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nsizwa Dlamini; Nsizwa Dlamini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Grace Khunou Grace Khunou Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 499–506. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-499 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…