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Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa
Editors : Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher
Publisher: Heinemann, Portsmouth, 2003
ISBN: 0-325-00243-1 (Paperback)
Over the last twenty years, gender has become a major research focus in African Studies, resulting in a surge of rich material. Yet men have rarely been the subject of gender research in Africa, and Africanist scholars have yet to fully address how shifting meanings of gender have affected African men or how the understandings and practices of masculinity have been contested and transformed during the colonial and postcolonial eras.
The collection examines the concepts and issues involved in exploring African men and the constructions of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Changing Men in Southern
Africa
Editor: Robert Morrell
Publisher: University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg,
2001
ISBN: 0-86980 983 0 (Paperback)
Despite claims in some quarters that men are in crisis, in Southern Africa they still dominate the domestic and public realms. But the power of men is not fixed, nor is it the case that all men share the spoils of dominance.
Changing Men in South Africa looks at the different kinds of masculinity that exist in southern Africa. Distancing itself from biological explanations of male behaviour, Changing Men demonstrates that dominant interpretations of masculinity still sanction violence against women, gay people, younger men and those belonging to other racial and ethnic groups.
Recreating Men : Postmodern
Masculinity Politics
Author : Bob Pease
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2000
ISBN: 0 7619 6206 5 (Paperback)
One of the most central issues for women’s prospects for equality is whether men can and will change. Changing the social relations of gender will involve changing men’s subjectivities as well as their daily practices. Recreating Men argues that it is possible.
Driven by practical as well as theoretical concerns, the book develops strategies that will promote the process of change towards equality in gender relations. Drawing on a critical postmodern theoretical framework, Bob Pease argues that it is possible for men to reposition themselves in patriarchal discourses and to reformulate their interests in challenging gender domination.
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