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African masculinities : men in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present
Title
African masculinities : men in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present / edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell.
ISBN
9781403979605
140397960X
1281368261
9781281368263
9781403965875
1403965870
140397960X
1403965870
186914063X
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (xv, 308 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors believe that to tackle the important questions in Africa--the many forms of violence (wars, genocides, familial violence and crime) and the AIDS pandemic--it is necessary to understand how a combination of a colonial past, patriarchal cultural structures and a variety of religious and knowledge systems creates masculine identities and sexualities. The work done in the book particularly bears in mind how vulnerability and marginalization produce complex forms of male identity. The book is interdisciplinary and is the first in-depth and comprehensive study of African men as a gendered category.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2005.
Other formats
Print version: African masculinities. New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A grammar of Black masculinity : a body of science / Arthur F. Saint-Aubin
Somewhere, over the rainbow : Cape Town, South Africa, as a "gay destination" / Glen S. Elder
Visualizing homosexualities in Africa-Dakan : an interview with filmmaker Mohamed Camara / Beti Ellerson
Hausa concepts of masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu / Frank A. Salamone
To be a man : changing constructions of manhood in Drum magazine, 1951-1965 / Lindsay Clowes
Of masks, mimicry, misogyny, and miscegenation : forging Black South African masculinity in Bloke Modisane's Blame me on history / Meredith Goldsmith
The troubled masculinities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Kathryn Holland
(Dis)enabling masculinities : the word and the body, class politics, and male sexuality in El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile / Sally Hayward
The masculine subject of colonialism : the Egyptian loss of the Sudan / Wilson Chacko Jacob
Gender and embodiment : expectations of manliness in a Zambian village / Paul Dover
Poverty, male disempowerment, and male sexuality : rethinking men and masculinities in rural and urban East Africa / Margrethe Silberschmidt
Violence and the gendered negotiation of masculinity among young Black school boys in South Africa / Deevia Bhana
"Ugandans," "cats" and others : constructing student masculinities at the University of Botswana / Rob Pattman
Indentured masculinity in colonial Natal, 1860-1910 / Goolam Vahed
Men doing "women's work" : masculinity and gender relations among street vendors in Maputo, Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian
Men, movements, and gender transformation in South Africa / Robert Morrell
Sexuality, masculinity, and infertility in Egypt : potent troubles in marital and medical encounters / Marcia C. Inhorn.
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