Masculinities in contemporary Africa : La masculinte en Afrique contemporaine / edited by Egodi Uchendu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Uchendu, Egodi.

Codesria Gender Institute.

Series:

Codesria gender series.

Codesria gender series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Africa.

Men.

Masculinity--Africa.

Masculinity.

Sex role--Africa.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Masculinte en Afrique contemporaine

Place of Publication:

Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa ; Oxford, UK : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612901492

9781282901490

1282901494

9782869784123

2869784120

9782869783683

286978368X

9782869782860

2869782861

OCLC:

741350889