Gendered representations of fatherhood in contemporary South African church imagery from three Afrikaans corporate churches

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Gendered representations of fatherhood in contemporary South African church imagery from three Afrikaans corporate churches
 
Creator Koenig-Visagie, Leandra H. van Eeden, Jeanne
 
Subject Visual Culture Studies; Gender Studies fatherhood; gender representation; church images; visual semiotic analysis
Description The South African secular media do not frequently portray men in parental roles; on the other hand, it seems that media and visual culture created by the Christian sector is more likely to engage with issues of fatherhood. Accordingly, it is relevant to explore representations of fatherhood in the Christian context, as these constitute some of the few examples of men’s parental roles in the South African visual culture landscape. Through a Barthean visual semiotic analysis, this article describes and problematises the representation (and non-representation) of certain aspects of fatherhood in the recent visual culture of three Afrikaans corporate churches in the Pretoria-Centurion area. It further establishes that strong connections between breadwinning, male headship and fatherhood exist in images created by these churches. Fathers are mainly shown as patriarchs, heads of households and as active outdoor adventurers. We argue that although men are depicted as involved parents, there are certain limitations and exclusions to this involvement.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor University of Pretoria University of South Africa
Date 2013-10-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Qualitative content analysis; Barthesean visual semiotic analysis
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ve.v34i1.760
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 34, No 1 (2013); 12 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa; Pretoria-Centurion area Contemporary South Africa, 2006-2008 Visual material depicting adult male figures from three participating churches
Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Leandra H. Koenig-Visagie, Jeanne van Eeden https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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