"Notions of gender within the ANC Youth League (ANCYL): a key to understanding present-day responses to gender controversies"

dc.contributor.author	Smith, Kirsty
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-14T11:46:30Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-14T11:46:30Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01-14
dc.description	Thesis (M.A.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, Political Studies, 2013	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	This work discusses the ANCYL constitution, the 2001 “ANCYL and its role in the struggle for Gender Equality” and the “ANCYL Perspective on Gender Relations and Women’s Emancipation” (of 2011) and unpacks the ways in which a particular conceptualisation of gender relations (within these documents) may provide insight into ANCYL responses to contemporary gender controversies. Drawing on a Foucauldian framework, this research considers the ways in which discourses work to construct a particular understanding of gender relations (within the Youth League). These discourses include gender as a social construct, the distinction between sex/gender, the fixity of the category of sex and heterosexual desire. This work extends these insights and suggests that there is a particular shape of hegemonic masculinity at play within the Youth League – a shape of masculinity that stands at odds with the provisions of ANCYL documents that commit to the pursuit of equal gender relations.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net10539/13471
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.title	"Notions of gender within the ANC Youth League (ANCYL): a key to understanding present-day responses to gender controversies"	en_ZA
dc.type	Thesis	en_ZA

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