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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456734003321

Titolo

Masculinities in contemporary Africa [[electronic resource] =] : La masculinté en Afrique contemporaine / / edited by Egodi Uchendu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, Senegal, : Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa

Oxford, UK, : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, c2008

ISBN

1-282-90149-4

9786612901492

2-86978-412-0

2-86978-368-X

2-86978-286-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Codesria gender series

Altri autori (Persone)

UchenduEgodi

Soggetti

Men - Africa

Masculinity - Africa

Sex role - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The papers in this volume were initially presented and discussed at CODESIRA's 2005 Gender Institute."--P. [v].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Series, deals with critical examinations of various shades and ramifications of Africa's masculinities and what these portend for the peoples of Africa and for gender relations in the continent. So much has changed in terms of notions and expressions of masculinities in Africa since ancient times, but man