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SUMMARY:Morgan Centre Seminar: Divorce Practices and Forms of Femininity 
 at the End of a Customary Marriage
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThis paper explores women’s practice of compliance 
 and resistance of oppression built into the racialised and gendered soci
 al structure of customary marriages in South Africa. By focussing on the
  relational aspects of gender hierarchies\, the paper emphasises how new
  forms of femininity are being constructed upon the dissolution of a cus
 tomary marriage\, specifically in relation to local and regional pattern
 s of masculinity. I argue that new forms of femininity constructed at th
 e local level\, in interaction with husbands\, paternal families and nat
 al kin\, may have the capacity to overwhelm dominant patterns of regiona
 l masculinities. Building on Connell’s work on emphasised femininity\, I
  outline three additional forms of femininities: ambivalent\, altered an
 d re-worked. By analysing how these forms of femininities are constructe
 d in the face of strong patriarchal alliances and new legal rights to ma
 rriage equality\, the article demonstrates an emerging democratic gender
  politics at the intersection of race\, class and gender.\n\nBiographica
 l Description:\nDr. Moore is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology (
 University of Cape Town) and a senior research fellow with the Centre fo
 r Social Science Research at UCT. She is a sociologist\, specialising in
  the sociology of the family with a Master’s degree in Applied Social Re
 search and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Her principal research int
 erests lie in the field of personal life\, gender\, intergenerational re
 lations\, divorce\, family law and policy\, feminist theories\, biograph
 ical methods and mixed methods. She is currently completing a co-authore
 d manuscript on customary marriage\, divorce and succession. Dr. Moore c
 urrently teaches courses on: the sociology of the family\; social theory
 \; research methods\; the analysis of qualitative data. To read and acce
 ss some of her articles\, see https://uct.academia.edu/ElenaMoore\n
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LOCATION:2nd Floor Boardroom\, Arthur Lewis Building\, University of Manc
 hester\, Bridgeford Street\, Manchester\, M13 9PL
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