- Title
- Masculine performance and enactment in the Rhodes University Rowing Club
- Creator
- Dlamini, Thobile Lungile
- Subject
- Masculinity in sports -- South Africa
- Subject
- College sports -- South Africa
- Subject
- Male college athletes -- Psychology -- South Africa -- Case studies
- Subject
- Masculinity
- Subject
- Sex role
- Subject
- Rhodes University. Rowing Club
- Subject
- Rhodes University -- Students -- Psychology
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSocSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4315
- Identifier
- vital:20647
- Description
- Drawing on the interactions between gender and power in the South African context, this study explores how masculinities are produced, reproduced and contested in one particular realm of social life, namely organised university sport. The study focuses on a rowing club at a historically white South African university (RURC). The narratives of ten male participants (aged between 19 and 23) who self-identified as heterosexual and were recruited from RURC, were utilised to make meaning of the process of identity construction of young males who participate in organised sport within the higher education sphere. The ethnographic aspect of the study, which spanned over three months, provided a window into the norms, values and rituals of the club and how these variously reinforce or interrupt the prevailing gender order. Employing Connell’s typology of masculinities as a lens, the study traces the lived construction of masculinity in the individual lives of the members of RURC as one sphere of university life in which masculinities are produced and contested. Within a wider culture that has been characterised as white, heteronormative and patriarchal, the study argues that although masculinities and masculine performances in the RURC are highly contested the practices of the club ultimately perpetuate an exclusionary, orthodox masculinity.
- Format
- 120 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Political and International Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Dlamini, Thobile Lungile
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