Men and Masculinities in Modern AfricaExtrait de la couverture : "Over the last twenty years, gender has become a major research focus in Africa studies, resulting in a surge of rich material. Yet men have rarely been the subject of gender research in Africa, and africanist scholars have yet to fully address how shifting meanings of gender have affected African men or how the understandings and practices of masculinity have been contested and transformed during the colonial and postcolonial eras. This collection is the firt to analyze the concepts and issues involved in exploring African men and the constructions of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa. An introduction establishes the major themes of the anthology : -men as gendered actors -the social construction of masculinity -masculinity as a relational category hegemonic and subordinate masculinities This book challenges stereotypes of African men as savages, patriarchs, or emasculated colonial victims. Essays establish the centrality of gender to the social and political transformation of the 20th-centrury Africa. Chronologically and regionally diverse, the collection moves from the early colonial period through the era of independence and inclludes local studies throughtout the continent, as well as the work of both junior and senior scholars. Anyone interested in scholarship on gender and Africa will find this collection invaluable and thought provoking." |
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In a post - war crisis of authority , local chiefs and elders were fighting off attacks
from younger generations and new elites empowered by electoral politics . More
to the point , the Muslim communities of the Soudan Français were experiencing
...
In a post - war crisis of authority , local chiefs and elders were fighting off attacks
from younger generations and new elites empowered by electoral politics . More
to the point , the Muslim communities of the Soudan Français were experiencing
...
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authority the better . ” ! With over 90 percent of the land in settler hands , South
African governments were loath to challenge the principle that whites and their
property should be policed by their own kind . Unlike elsewhere in colonial Africa
...
authority the better . ” ! With over 90 percent of the land in settler hands , South
African governments were loath to challenge the principle that whites and their
property should be policed by their own kind . Unlike elsewhere in colonial Africa
...
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With aspirations that lie beyond the backwater that many think Ado to be , their
concerns are less with the forms of prestige and authority available to their
fathers or grandfathers than with more directly material opportunities for self -
assertion .
With aspirations that lie beyond the backwater that many think Ado to be , their
concerns are less with the forms of prestige and authority available to their
fathers or grandfathers than with more directly material opportunities for self -
assertion .
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Contents
Men and Masculinities in Modern African History | 1 |
Forsaking Their Fathers? Colonialism Christianity and Coming | 33 |
Masculinities and Programs | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa Social history of Africa, ISSN 1099-8098 |
| Editors | Lisa A. Lindsay, Stephan Miescher |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 032500255X, 9780325002552 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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