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Title Masculinities in contemporary Africa / edited by Egodi Uchendu = La masculinité en Afrique contemporaine / édité par Egodi Uchendu.

Publication Info. Dakar : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ; Oxford, UK : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 266 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Codesria gender series ; 7
Codesria gender series ; 7.
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 masculinité au Maroc entre traditions, modernité et int́grisme / Abdessamad Dialmy -- La formation la masculinité entre la tradition et la modernité (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'état 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 féminines pour la paix au Congo Brazzaville de 1991 à 1999 / Koutouma Nsona -- Corps et beauté : représentations et enjeux. socio-anthropologie de la construction binaire: masculin/féminin. Le cas de l'étudiante algérienne / Zahia Benabdallah.
Note "The papers in this volume were initially presented and discussed at CODESRIA's 2005 Gender Institute"--Page [v].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 many aspects of contemporary masculinities were fashioned during and since the colonial period. The papers in this volume were initially discussed at the 2005 month-long CODESRIA Gender Institute in Dakar. The contributors are gender scholars drawn from various disciplines in the wide fields of the humanities and the social sciences with research interests in the critical study of men and masculinities in Africa."--Book cover.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English and French.
Subject Men -- Africa.
Men.
Africa.
Masculinity -- Africa.
Masculinity.
Sex role -- Africa.
Sex role.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Men.
Gender roles.
Added Author Uchendu, Egodi.
Codesria.
Codesria Gender Institute.
Added Title Masculinité en Afrique contemporaine
Other Form: Print version: Masculinities in contemporary Africa. Dakar : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ; Oxford, UK : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, ©2008 9782869782273 (DLC) 2009324283 (OCoLC)316037685
ISBN 9782869784123 (electronic book)
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