Journal
JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Volume 36, Issue 19-20, Pages 9670-9690Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0886260519869066
Keywords
Ghana; masculinities; intimate partner violence; controlling behavior; gender norms
Funding
- Social Science Research Council's Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship
- Association of African Universities (AAU) Small Grant for Thesis Completion
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This study focuses on how Ghanaian men in rural areas construct and negotiate their masculinities, as well as understanding intimate partner violence. Findings reveal that various cultural narratives and metaphors were used to support men's controlling behaviors and intimate violence against women.
Critical studies on men and masculinities have gained significant momentum in feminist scholarship in the past decades. The growing interest in feminist scholarship has focused broadly on how male-bodied people construct, negotiate, and express masculine identities. Despite this growing interest, insufficient attention has explored how rurally based Ghanaian men construct and negotiate their masculinities in intimate relationships. Situated within critical discursive psychology and drawing on 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews and 6 focus group discussions with adult men in northwestern Ghana, the results show that dominant notions of masculinity provide a broad context through which participants' narratives, negotiations, and experiences on intimate partner violence could be understood. Findings suggest that various cultural narratives and metaphors were deployed to support men's controlling behaviors and/or intimate violence against women. The implications of how harmful masculine ideologies could frustrate efforts that target the development and promotion of a socially just and less oppressive society are presented and discussed.
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