African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

✍ Scribed by Lahoucine Ouzgane, Robert Morrell (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 311
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
African Masculinities: An Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
A Grammar of Black Masculinity: A Body of Science....Pages 23-42
Somewhere, over the Rainbow: Cape Town, South Africa, as a “Gay Destination”....Pages 43-59
Visualizing Homosexualities in Africa Dakan: An Interview with Filmmaker Mohamed Camara....Pages 61-73
Hausa Concepts of Masculinity and the ‘Yan Daudu ....Pages 75-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
To Be a Man: Changing Constructions of Manhood in Drum Magazine, 1951–1965....Pages 89-108
Of Masks, Mimicry, Misogyny, and Miscegenation: Forging Black South African Masculinity in Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History ....Pages 109-120
The Troubled Masculinities in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions ....Pages 121-136
(Dis)Enabling Masculinities: The Word and the Body, Class Politics, and Male Sexuality in El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile ....Pages 137-151
The Masculine Subject of Colonialism: The Egyptian Loss of the Sudan....Pages 153-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Gender and Embodiment: Expectations of Manliness in a Zambian Village....Pages 173-187
Poverty, Male Disempowerment, and Male Sexuality: Rethinking Men and Masculinities in Rural and Urban East Africa....Pages 189-203
Violence and the Gendered Negotiation of Masculinity Among Young Black School Boys in South Africa....Pages 205-220
“Ugandans,” “Cats” and Others: Constructing Student Masculinities at the University of Botswana....Pages 221-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Indentured Masculinity in Colonial Natal, 1860–1910....Pages 239-256
Men Doing “Women’s Work”: Masculinity and Gender Relations Among Street Vendors in Maputo, Mozambique....Pages 257-269
Men, Movements, and Gender Transformation in South Africa....Pages 271-288
Sexuality, Masculinity, and Infertility in Egypt: Potent Troubles in Marital and Medical Encounters....Pages 289-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-308

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies; African Culture; Sociology, general; Cultural and Media Studies, general; African History

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