Masculinities in Contemporary Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masculinities in Contemporary Africa write by Egodi Uchendu. This book was released on 2008. Masculinities in Contemporary Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The CODESRIA Gender Series aims at keeping alive and nourishing the African social science knowledge base with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. The series strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for emerging new talents to flower.
African Masculinities
African Masculinities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Masculinities write by L. Ouzgane. This book was released on 2005-03-15. African Masculinities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa
Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa write by Lisa A. Lindsay. This book was released on 2003. Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprises a dozen contributions, focusing on men as gendered actors, the social construction of masculinity, masculinity as a relational category, and hegemonic or subordinate masculinities. Reflects on developments from colonialism to independence in seven sub-Saharan countries.
Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity
Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity write by Dr Adriaan van Klinken. This book was released on 2013-03-28. Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Studies of gender in African Christianity have usually focused on women. This book draws attention to men and constructions of masculinity, particularly important in light of the HIV epidemic which has given rise to a critical investigation of dominant forms of masculinity. These are often associated with the spread of HIV, gender-based violence and oppression of women. Against this background Christian theologians and local churches in Africa seek to change men and transform masculinities. Exploring the complexity and ambiguity of religious gender discourses in contemporary African contexts, this book critically examines the ways in which some progressive African theologians, and a Catholic parish and a Pentecostal church in Zambia, work on a 'transformation of masculinities'.
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook AIDS and Masculinity in the African City write by Robert Wyrod. This book was released on 2016-07-05. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda, a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story. Based on extensive ethnographic research in an urban slum community called Bwaise, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for men's and women's health and wellbeing in Uganda and beyond"--
