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Biting the forbidden apple: Unmasking the strategies that married women employ when conducting their extra marital affairs in Shamva's Wadzanai Township Zimbabwe

Journal of Social Development in Africa

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Title Biting the forbidden apple: Unmasking the strategies that married women employ when conducting their extra marital affairs in Shamva's Wadzanai Township Zimbabwe
 
Creator Chadambuka, Patience
 
Subject Extra marital affairs, infidelity, married women, Ubuntu, culture
 
Description The present paper is a follow up to the article “'Wives in watercolours': Infidelity among married women in Shamva, Zimbabwe (RJFS-2015-0140) that has been submitted to the Journal of Family Studies by Chadambuka, Pelser and Muzvidziwa. Whilst the first article thrusts its main focus on causes and consequences, this particular paper is committed to documenting the strategies that married women in a multi ethnic African community employ as they conduct their secret love affairs. The study was carried out in Shamva District's Wadzanai Township in Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe. This qualitative study shows that extra marital affairs of married women thrive in secrecy. Networks with friends as well as secret rendezvous and character staging were some of the strategies used by the women. Indepth interviews were carried out with six married women who were involved in extra marital affairs with other men and these took place on a face to face basis. Goffman's dramaturgical theory and Michel Foucault's concept of the gaze and the African concept of Ubuntu are the sociological lenses which were used to analyse these dynamics.Keywords: Extra marital affairs, infidelity, married women, Ubuntu, culture
 
Publisher School of Social Work, University of Zimbabwe
 
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Date 2016-06-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsda/article/view/136738
 
Source Journal of Social Development in Africa; Vol 29, No 2 (2014); 33-56
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Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsda/article/view/136738/126234
 
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