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Men and masculinities in modern Africa
- Title
- Men and masculinities in modern Africa / edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher.
- Publication
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003.
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- Description
- vi, 265 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Social history of Africa, 1099-8098
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : men and masculinities in modern African history / Stephan F. Miescher and Lisa A. Lindsay -- 2. Forsaking their fathers? Colonialism, Christianity, and coming of age in Ovamboland, northern Namibia / Meredith McKittrick -- 3. "And she became a man" : King Ahebi Ugbabe in the history of Enugu-Ezike, northern Igboland, 1880-1948 / Nwando Achebe -- 4. Old soldiers, young men : masculinity, Islam, and military veterans in late 1950s Soudan Français (Mali) / Gregory Mann -- 5. The making of Presbyterian teachers : masculinities and programs of education in colonial Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher -- 6. "Taken as boys" : the politics of Black police employment and experience in early twentieth-century South Africa / Keith Shear -- 7. Industrial man goes to Africa / Frederick Cooper -- 8. Money, marriage, and masculinity on the colonial Nigerian Railway / Lisa A. Lindsay -- 9. A "man" in the village is a "boy" in the workplace : colonial racism, worker militance, and Igbo notions of masculinity in the Nigerian coal industry, 1930-1945 / Carolyn A. Brown -- 10. Matrimony and rebellion : masculinity in Mau Mau / Luise White -- 11. Gendered nationalism : forms of masculinity in modern Asante of Ghana / Pashington Obeng -- 12. Being Maasai men : modernity and the production of Maasai masculinities / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- 13. To be a man is more than a day's work : shifting ideals of masculinity in Ado-Odo, southwestern Nigeria / Andrea A. Cornwall -- 14. Afterword / Luise White.
- Call Number
- Sc E 03-1104
- ISBN
- 032500255X (alk. paper)
- 0325002541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002027620
- OCLC
- 50166733
- Title
- Men and masculinities in modern Africa / edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher.
- Imprint
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003.
- Series
- Social history of Africa, 1099-8098
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lindsay, Lisa A.Miescher, Stephan.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 03-1104