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African masculinities : men in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present / edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell.

Other author/creatorOuzgane, Lahoucine.
Other author/creatorMorrell, Robert.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005.
Descriptionxv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Contents A grammar of Black masculinity : a body of science / Arthur F. Saint-Aubin -- Somewhere, over the rainbow : Cape Town, South Africa, as a "gay destination" / Glen S. Elder -- Visualizing homosexualities in Africa-Dakan : an interview with filmmaker Mohamed Camara / Beti Ellerson -- Hausa concepts of masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu / Frank A. Salamone -- To be a man : changing constructions of manhood in Drum magazine, 1951-1965 / Lindsay Clowes -- Of masks, mimicry, misogyny, and miscegenation : forging Black South African masculinity in Bloke Modisane's Blame me on history / Meredith Goldsmith -- The troubled masculinities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Kathryn Holland -- (Dis)enabling masculinities : the word and the body, class politics, and male sexuality in El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile / Sally Hayward -- The masculine subject of colonialism : the Egyptian loss of the Sudan / Wilson Chacko Jacob -- Gender and embodiment : expectations of manliness in a Zambian village / Paul Dover -- Poverty, male disempowerment, and male sexuality : rethinking men and masculinities in rural and urban East Africa / Margrethe Silberschmidt -- Violence and the gendered negotiation of masculinity among young Black school boys in South Africa / Deevia Bhana -- "Ugandans," "cats" and others : constructing student masculinities at the University of Botswana / Rob Pattman -- Indentured masculinity in colonial Natal, 1860-1910 / Goolam Vahed -- Men doing "women's work" : masculinity and gender relations among street vendors in Maputo, Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian -- Men, movements, and gender transformation in South Africa / Robert Morrell -- Sexuality, masculinity, and infertility in Egypt : potent troubles in marital and medical encounters / Marcia C. Inhorn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004054404
ISBN1403965870 (cl.)
ISBN186914063X

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