Women Abuse under the Guise of Culture and Language Use

Many African proverbs that are used to define relationships between men and women, \nspecifically the marital relationship, seem to be gender biased and focus more on women. \nIn this study, women’s narratives relating to abuse under the guise of culture and language \nuse were explored using hermeneutic phenomenology. Language is at the core of the \ndescription and interpretation of reality to produce meanings and to understand people’s \nlives. Therefore, societal expectations are instilled in members of a society through \nlanguage as part of their socialisation process. The study sample consisted of women \nwho had received premarital counselling and who lived in the cities of Tshwane and \nJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Five individual and eight focus-group interviews \nwere conducted with 57 participants. Colaizzi’s methods of data analysis were used and \nthe findings revealed that vernacular proverb songs were used to reinforce the expectation \nthat women in general and married women in particular had to play a submissive role

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