Marandza: um estudo sobre a construção e gestão da identidade das namoradas de homens casados na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

In the present monograph entitled "Marandza”: a study on the construction and management of themarried men's girlfriends identity in Maputo city, we developed a sociological study on the construction processes and identity management of the girlfriends of the married men inMaputo city. The main goal of the research was to understand the construction of the identity of the “Other” from the maintenance of the relationship maintained with the married man. In order toanalyse the social reality we set out to study, we used Erving Goffman's (1980) theoretical proposal, the Stigma theory, and three fundamental concepts, namely, love relationships, social identity, Stigma and “Other”. Regarding the methodological aspects, we are guided by the qualitative approach and the monographic procedure, we also used the literary review and semi- structured interviews to collect our data in the field. The results show that women as Other, assume themselves as girlfriends of married Men and the management of the relationship maintained between them, which includes the omission of the same, reveals itself as a strategy to manage this identity, which in turn within the family, elements that enable the construction of the identity of the “Other”