An Uncertain Age : The Politics of Manhood in Kenya /

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In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender powerfully animated relationships and shaped East Africans' contact with emergent global ideas about age and masculinity. Kenyan men and boys came of age achieving their manhood through changing rites of passage and access to new outlets such as town l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ocobock, Paul, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sozialpsychologie
Männlichkeit
Initiation
MaÌ#x88;nnlichkeit.
Young men > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Masculinity > Political aspects.
Conflict of generations.
Coming of age.
Colonial influence.
Conflict of generations > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Young men > Kenya > Social conditions > 20th century.
Masculinity > Political aspects > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Coming of age > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Kenia
Kenya.
Kenya > Politics and government > To 1963.
Kenya > Colonial influence.
Kenya > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An "arbitrary line" : male initiation and colonial authority
  • "I wanted to make something of myself" : migration, wage labor, and earning an age
  • "I saw a paradise" : growing up on the streets of a colonial city
  • "The old way ... the only way" : corporal punishment and a community of disciplinarians
  • "Jaili Watoto," the children's jail : reforming the young male offender
  • "In the past, the country belonged to the young men" : freedom fighting at an uncertain age
  • "We're the Wamumu boys" : defeating Mau Mau, creating youth at the end of empire
  • "An army without guns" : the National Youth Service and age in Kenyatta's Kenya
  • Conclusion : #gocutmyhusband.

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