Making men in Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miescher, Stephan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Ghana.

Men.

Men--Ghana--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, Making Men in Ghana explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. Stephan F. Miescher concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation. Miescher shows how they negotiated complex social and economic transformations and how they dealt with their mounting obligations and responsibilities as leaders in their kinship groups, churches, and

Contents:

"To be a man is hard" : masculinities and life histories

Children and childhood : work and play, 1900-1930

Forms of education : apprenticeships and schools, 1919-1947

The employment of men : clerks, police, soldiers, and teachers, 1930-1951

The marriages of men : sexuality and fatherhood, 1930-1970

Speaking sensibly : men as elders in the twentieth century

Epilogue : "No condition is permanent"

Postscript.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-310) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072642

1-282-07264-1

0-253-11165-X

OCLC:

476016265