Changing Men in Southern Africa
Title | Changing Men in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Morrell |
Publisher | Global Masculinities from Zed |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2001-08-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Despite claims that men are in crisis, the domestic and public realms of Southern Africa are still dominated by men. This examination of modern men aims to show that the power of man is not a fixed concept, and that it is not true that all men share the spoils of dominance
Changing men in Southern Africa
Title | Changing men in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
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Release | 1990 |
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Youth and changing realities
Title | Youth and changing realities PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmimed, Charaf |
Publisher | UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | 62 |
Release | 2019-10-04 |
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ISBN | 9231003348 |
Becoming Men
Title | Becoming Men PDF eBook |
Author | Malose Langa |
Publisher | Wits University Press |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1776145674 |
This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa Becoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity. Psychologist and academic Malose Langa has documented graphically what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa. The boys discuss a range of topics including the impact of absent fathers, relationships with mothers, siblings and girls, school violence, academic performance, homophobia, gangsterism, unemployment and, in one case, prison life. Dominant themes that emerge are deep ambivalence, self-doubt and hesitation in the boys' approaches to alternative masculinities that are non-violent, non-sexist and non-risk-taking. The difficulties of negotiating the multiple voices of masculinity are exposed as many of the boys appear simultaneously to comply with and oppose the prevalent norms. Providing a rich interpretation of how emotional processes affect black adolescent boys, Langa suggests interventions and services to support and assist them, especially in reducing the high-risk behaviours generally associated with hegemonic masculinity. This is essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of gender studies who wish to understand manhood and masculinity in South Africa. Psychologists, youth workers, lay counsellors and teachers who work with adolescent boys will also find it invaluable.
Workers and Warriors
Title | Workers and Warriors PDF eBook |
Author | Thembisa Waetjen |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780252029080 |
In this compact, powerful new study Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilization of Zulu nationalism in South Africa as antiapartheid efforts gained force during the 1980s. Undercutting assumptions of male power and nationalism as monolithic, Workers and Warriors demonstrates the ways that masculinities may be plural, conflict-ridden, and crucial not only to the formation of loyalty but also to why some nationalisms fail.
African Masculinities
Title | African Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | L. Ouzgane |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2005-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 140397960X |
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors believe that to tackle the important questions in Africa-the many forms of violence (wars, genocides, familial violence and crime) and the AIDS pandemic-it is necessary to understand how a combination of a colonial past, patriarchal cultural structures and a variety of religious and knowledge systems creates masculine identities and sexualities. The work done in the book particularly bears in mind how vulnerability and marginalization produce complex forms of male identity. The book is interdisciplinary and is the first in-depth and comprehensive study of African men as a gendered category.
Changing Power Relations Between Men and Women in Southern Africa
Title | Changing Power Relations Between Men and Women in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Tiyanjana Maluwa |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 35 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Power (Social sciences) |
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