Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (Nov 2002)

The analysis of a dominant gender discourse - Part 2

  • Laetitia Zeeman,
  • Marie Poggenpoel,
  • Chris Myburgh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v7i1.367
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 10 – 20

Abstract

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Gender dilemmas are formed where a woman's role and identity is constructed in alternative ways, ways which do not cohere with the ways prescribed and expected within a dominant gender discourse. Opsomming Gender-dilemmas wordgevorm waar 'n vrou se rol en identiteit gekonstrueer is op alternatiewe wyses wat nie ooreenstem met tradisionele konstruksies binne 'n dominante gender-diskoers nie. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.