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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451356303321

Titolo

African masculinities [[electronic resource] ] : men in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present / / edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan

Scottsville, South Africa, : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36826-1

9786611368265

1-4039-7960-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OuzganeLahoucine

MorrellRobert

Disciplina

305.31096

Soggetti

Men - Africa

Masculinity - Africa

Black people

Race relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; African Masculinities: An Introduction; I: Interpreting Masculinities; II: Representing Masculinities; III: Constructing Masculinities; IV: Contesting Masculinities; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.