Men's Involvement in the South African Family : Engendering Change in the AIDS Era  

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Montgomery, Catherine M. ; Hosegood, Victoria ; Busza, Joanna ; Timaeus, Ian M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 10 (May 2006), page 2411-2419.
Topik: AIDS/HIV; south africa; men; HIV / AIDS . fathers; family; gender

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The literature on the south african family and its response to the HIV / AIDS epidemic is life with accounts of men that reflect a deficit model of male involvement. Few acknowledge the historical, economic and social complexities of male involvement in family life. As the south african family undergoes demographic, social and economic transformation there is a need to describe the range of roles played all household members, including men. This paper examined data collected over two and a half years form a small sample of households affected by HIV / AIDS in rural kwazulu natal, south africa. Non participant observations were made during outreach visits by research staff to twenty households caring for at least one adult with disease symptoms indicative of TB or AIDS. We find that men are positively involved with their families and households in awide range of ways. They care for patients and children, financially support immediate and extended family members and are present at home, thereby enabling women to work or support other households. As the qualitative data demonstrate, however, such activites are often not acknowledged the dominant perception of both female respondents and research assistants continues to be that men are not caring for their families because they are irresponsible and profilgate. We consider reasons why this disjuncture exists and how more men might be encouraged to fulfil such roles and activities as their families and households suffer the social and economic impacts of HIV / AIDS.

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