Convening Black Intimacy : Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa /

An unprecedented study of how Christianity reshaped Black South Africans' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family during the first half of the twentieth century. This book demonstrates that the primary affective force in the construction of modern Black intimate life in early twenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erlank, Natasha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2023
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Families, Black > South Africa > Religious aspects.
Marriage > South Africa > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Black people > Marriage customs and rites > South Africa > Religious aspects.
South Africa > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Convening Christian publics : churches, newspapers, and customary courts
  • Modern masculinity
  • Love, sex, and consequence
  • Marriage and lobola and the imagining of black intimate life
  • Weddings and status, consumption and reciprocity
  • Polygamy, multiple conjugality, and masihlalisane.

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