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To be a man is not a one-day job : masculinity, money, and intimacy in Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith.
LIBRA HQ1090.7.N6 S65 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Daniel Jordan, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--Nigeria--Social conditions.
- Men.
- Masculinity--Economic aspects--Nigeria.
- Masculinity.
- Money--Social aspects--Nigeria.
- Money.
- Igbo (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Igbo (African people).
- Money--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- From boys to men: learning to love women and money
- Expensive intimacies: courtship, marriage, and fatherhood
- "Money problem": work, class, consumption, and men's social status
- "Ahhheee club": money, intimacy, and male peer groups
- Masculinity gone awry: intimate partner violence, crime, and insecurity
- Becoming an elder, burying one's father.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226491516
- 022649151X
- 9780226491653
- 022649165X
- OCLC:
- 975398279
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