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    Die konstruksie van Afrikaanse manlikheid in tydskrifte (2005 tot 2015) : ’n diskoersanalitiese ondersoek
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2023-03) Louw, Susanna Hermina; Marais, Amanda; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the past 30 years, the South African society has undergone political, social and economic changes (News24 2013; Vollgraaff 2015). According to Whitehead (2002:5) and Alexander (2003:536) gender relations are influenced by such changes. Gender as a social construction implies that the constructions of masculinity are continuously developed and modified, and that masculinity can be realised in different ways (Morrell 2001; Diamond 2002; Benwell 2003b; Mikkola 2017). The variety of masculinities is one of many reasons for the development of the so-called “masculinity in crisis” phenomenon (Benwell 2003b:14), although the democratisation of South Africa is the main contributor to the South African “masculinity in crisis” (Viljoen 2012:652). Magazines play an important role in the development of new masculinities, firstly, by highlighting a variety of masculinities in society and secondly, by presenting different modes of expressing masculinity to the readers (McRobbie 1999:48; Benwell 2003b:7,8; Del Mar Rubio-Hernández 2010:69). Men can also use magazines to help them understand the “masculinity in crisis” phenomenon and their reactions to it (Benwell 2003b:14-15). This study focuses on the constructions of Afrikaans masculinity in Afrikaans magazines (2005 to 2015) that men read. I investigated Huisgenoot, Landbouweekblad, Sarie, Kuier, Weg!, Plaastoe and Intiem vir Mans. A variety of magazines are therefore studied together in order to expose the wider Afrikaans society’s shaping of masculinity. The overall aim is to provide insights into the dynamics of the interaction between society, the media and gender constructions in a context that has been characterised by large-scale changes in a relatively short time.