A dissertation submitted in full fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by Research in Media Studies, Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, February 2018 / This project examines the ways in which Radio Islam, a South African community radio station,
constructs masculinity in the South African Indian Muslim community. This community is its
largest audience. The radio station is strongly influenced by the ideologies and rulings of the
Jamiatul Ulama, an ideological body whose teachings stem from Indo-Pak interpretations of
Islam and with whom much of the South African Indian Muslim community align themselves.
The conflation of this culture and religion in this context results in patriarchal and misogynistic
teachings being repeated by this body without much questioning, resulting in the common
upliftment of men and confinement of women in the community to certain roles and spaces
only. Through the examination and discourse analysis of broadcasted content on Radio Islam
in three categories that have many gendered dynamics to them - hijab, marriage, and
Ramadan - this study aims to unpack the way in which masculinity is constructed, and the
extents to which these constructions then facilitate the entrenchment of patriarchy in the
broader South African Muslim community. / XL2018
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/25706 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Dadi Patel, Aaisha |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | Online resource (119 pages), application/pdf, application/pdf |
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