Extra marital affair lives of married women in Shamva’s Wadzanai Township.

Abstract

The present project sought to investigate and document extra marital affair dynamics prevailing among married women in Shamva’s Wadzanai Township, Zimbabwe. Previous studies on extra marital affairs have been criticised for their lack of a sound methodological and theoretical background. Thus this anthropological qualitative study employed in-depth interviews which were conducted with six women in the township. The interviews focused on the reasons, strategies as well as the perceived and real consequences of married women’s indulgence in extra marital affairs. This study also made use of symbolic interactionism, Goffman’s dramaturgical theory and Michel Foucault’s concept of the gaze as the sociological lenses with which to analyse these dynamics