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Male Powerlessness: Men and Intimate Partner Violence

Male Powerlessness investigates black African men’s lived encounters with intimate partner violence (IPV) and the ways in which these men make sense of, and struggle to overcome, their unprecedented experiences of abuse at a time when research on women’s experiences of gender-based violence is expanding. In the transnational and dynamic gender environment of the City of Johannesburg, men (local and immigrant) engage in short- and long-term relationships that are typically marked by contestation and conflict. This book examines how men may become abused in heterosexual relationships, a topic that has received little attention in South African literature. The book examines the impact of IPV on black African men’s masculine identities and helps us understand the many masculine constructs that abused men may articulate. The book explores male powerlessness and its implications for men’s experiences of IPV and masculine well-being. The book makes an invaluable contribution from an empirical, methodological, and theoretical viewpoint to the corpus of gender-based violence literature that will interest students of sociology, criminology, social work, sexual politics, feminism, and critical men’s studies, among others.

Emmanuel Rowlands is a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg and the author of “She is trying to control me”: African Men’s Lived Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg (2021), and Hegemonic Masculinity and Male Powerlessness: A Reflection on African Men’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence (2021), and Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and Insider Researcher Dynamics: Reflections on Investigating Violence against Men in Intimate Relationships (2022), and Constructing Victimisation as Masculine Honour: Men and Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg (2022).

Authors:
Emmanuel Rowlands
University of Johannesburg
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-3826

Product details

Chapters

  • Male Power and Intimate Partner Violence
  • Making Sense and Shaping the Study: Theory and Conceptualisation
  • Researching Violence against Men
  • Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight Every Day”
    Enduring Female Partner Abuse
  • Driver Factors of Men’s Abuse
  • Conceptions of Manhood and Power
  • Male Power or Powerlessness
    Interpreting the Impact of IPV on Black African Men’s Manhood Conceptions
  • Concluding Reflection
  • Theory, Policy and Practice Impact Recommendations

Author Biography

Emmanuel Rowlands, University of Johannesburg

Africa Centre for Evidence

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