"Injuries are beyond love": Physical violence in young South Africans' sexual relationships

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-69

  Wood, Kate ^a   Lambert, Helen ^c   Jewkes, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Masculinity; South Africa; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 39049089624     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740701831427     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Beinart, W. 1992 Political and Collective Violence in Southern African Historiography. Journal of Southern African Studies 18(3):455-496.
2. Bonner, P. 1990 "Desirable or Undesirable Basotho Women?" Liquor, Prostitution and the Migration of Basotho Women to the Rand, 1920-1945. In Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945. C. Walker, ed. pp. 221-250. Cape Town: David. Philip.
3. Bourdieu, P. 1999 1993 The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society. P. Ferguson, trans.. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
4. 2001 Masculine Domination. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
5. Bourgois, P. 1995 In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press.
6. Campbell, C. 1992 Learning to Kill? Masculinity, Family and Violence in Natal. Journal of Southern African Studies 18:614-628.
7. Connell, R. 1995 Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press.
8. Cornwall, A. and N. Lindisfarne 1994 Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies. London: Routledge.
9. Daniel, V. 1996 Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
10. Das, V. 1996 Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11. Das, V., A. Kleinman, M. Ramphele, and P. Reynolds, eds. 2000 Violence and Subjectivity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
12. Farmer, P. 1997 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below. In Social Suffering. A. Kleinman, V. Das, and M. Lock, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
13. Glaser, C. 2000 Bo-tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto 1935-1976. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
14. Guy, J. 1990 Gender Oppression in Southern Africa's Precapitalist Societies. In Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945. C. Walker, ed. pp. 33-47. Cape Town: David Philip.
15. Hammond-Tooke, W. 1962 Bhaca Society: A People of the Transkeian Uplands, South Africa. London: Oxford University Press.
16. Harvey, P. and P. Gow 1994 Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. London: Routledge.
17. Heise, L., J. Pitanguy, and A. Germain 1994 Violence Against Women: The Hidden Health Burden. World Bank Discussion Paper 255. Washington, DC: World Bank.
18. Hellmann, E. 1948 Roiiyard: A Sociological Study of an Urban Native Slumyard. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
19. Hunter, M. 1936 Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London: Oxford University Press.
20. 2005 Cultural Politics and Masculinities: Multiple Partners in Historical Perspective in KwaZulu-Natal. Culture, Health and Sexuality 7(3):209-223.
21. Jewkes, R., L. Penn-Kekana, J. Levin, M. Ratsaka, and M. Schrieber 2001 Prevalence of Physical, Emotional and Sexual Abuse of Women in Three South African Provinces. South African Medical Journal 91(5):421-428.
22. Jewkes, R., L. Penn-Kekana, and H. Rose-Junius 2005 "If they rape me, I can't blame them": Reflections on Gender in the Social Context of Child Rape in South Africa and Namibia. Social Science and Medicine 61:1809-1820.
23. Kleinman A., V. Das, and M. Lock, eds. 1997 Social Suffering. Berkeley: University of California Press.
24. Kuckertz, H. 1997 Ukuhlonipha as an Idiom of Moral Reasoning in Mpondo. In Culture and the Commonplace. P. McAllister, ed. pp. 311-348. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
25. Leclerc-Madlala, S. 1997 Infect one, Infect all: Zulu Youth Response to the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. Medical Anthropology 17:363-380.
26. Lutz, C. and G. White 1986 The Anthropology of Emotions. Annual Review of Anthropology 15:405-436.
27. Mager, A. 1999 Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: A Social. History of the Ciskei 1945-1959. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
28. Morrell, R., ed. 2001 Changing Men in Southern Africa. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
29. Moodie, D. T. 1994 Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration. Berkeley: University of California Press.
30. Moore, H. 1994 Fantasies of Power, and Fantasies of Identity: Gender, Race and Violence. In A Passion for Difference. H. Moore, ed. pp. 49-70. Cambridge: Polity Press.
31. Niehaus, I. 2002 Perversion of Power: Witchcraft and the Sexuality of Evil in the South African Lowveld. Journal of Religion in Africa 32(3):269-299.
32. Nordstrom, C. and A. Robben 1995 Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival. Berkeley: University of California Press.
33. Pauw, B. 1962 The Second Generation: A. Study of the Family Among Urbanised Bantu in East London. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
34. Posel, D. 2005 The Scandal of Manhood: "Baby Rape" and the Politicization of Sexual Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Culture, Health and Sexuality 7(3):239-252.
35. Redding, S. 1987 The Making of a South African Town: Social and Economic Change in Umtata 1870-1950. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Yale University.
36. Riches, D., ed. 1986 The Anthropology of Violence. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
37. Scheper-Hughes, N. 1994 AIDS and the Social Body. Social Science and Medicine 39:991-1003.
38. Schoepf, B. 1991 Ethical, Methodological and Political Issues of AIDS Research in Central Africa. Social Science and Medicine 33:752.
39. Sideris, T. 2004 "You have to Change and You don't Know how!": Contesting What it Means to be a man in a Rural Area of South Africa. African Studies 63(1):29-49.
40. Stadler, A. 1987 The Political Economy of Modern South Africa. Cape Town: David Phillip.
41. Vance C. 1991 Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: a theoretical comment. Social Science and Medicine 33(8):875-884.
42. Wood, K. and R. Jewkes 2001 "Dangerous" Love: Reflections on Violence Among Xhosa Township Youth. In Changing Men in Southern Africa. R. Morrell, ed. pp. 317-336. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
43. World Health Organization 2002 World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: WHO. Available online at: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/ violence/world_report/en/(accessed December 27, 2007).