Masculinities in Contemporary Africa /

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"Although gender and non-gender scholars have studied men, such an academic exercise requires a critical and focused study of masculine subjects in particular social contexts, which is what this book attempts to do. This empirically rich collection of essays, the seventh of the CODESRIA Gender...

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Corporate Authors: Codesria Gender Institute, Codesria
Other Authors: Uchendu, Egodi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Oxford, UK : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mann.
Männerbild
Männlichkeit
Sex role.
Men.
Masculinity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Rôle selon le sexe > Afrique.
Masculinite > Afrique.
Hommes > Afrique.
Sex role > Africa.
Masculinity > Africa.
Men > Africa.
Afrika
Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: are African males men? sketching African masculinities / Egodi Uchendu
  • Studying men in Africa critically / Kopano Ratele
  • Masculinity and ritual violence: a study of bullfighting among the Luhyia of Western Kenya / Egara Kabaji
  • The masculine discursive construction of rape in the Kenyan press / James Ogola Onyango
  • La masculinite au Maroc entre traditions, modernite et int́grisme / Abdessamad Dialmy
  • La formation la masculinite entre la tradition et la modernite (le cas du sud du Togo) / Svetlana Koudolo
  • White men: an exploration of intersections of masculinity, whiteness and colonialism and the engagement of counter-hegemonic projects / Claire Kelly
  • L'etat moderne africain et le patriarcat public / Ibrahim Mouiche
  • Men's role in persistent rural poverty: lessons from Kenya / Wanjiku Chiuri
  • Student fathers and the challenge to masculinities in Kenyan universities / Charity Mwangi-Chemnjor
  • The interaction of gender and migration: household relations in rural and urban Mozambique / Inês M. Raimundo
  • 'Lifting the cloak on manhood': coverage of Xhosa male circumcision in the South African press / Lilian N. Ndangam
  • Ordre masculin, violences politiques et initiatives feminines pour la paix au Congo Brazzaville de 1991 à 1999 / Koutouma Nsona
  • Corps et beaute : representations et enjeux. socio-anthropologie de la construction binaire: masculin/feminin. Le cas de l'etudiante algerienne / Zahia Benabdallah.

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