African Masculinities Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

by Ouzgane, Lahoucine; Morrell, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781403965875
• ISBN10: 1403965870
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-16
• Publisher: SPRINGER - VERLAG

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. He is the Editor of Islamic Masculinities (Zed Books, 2005).

Robert Morrell is Professor of Education, University of Natal (South Africa). He is the Editor of Changing Men in Southern Africa (Zed Books, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
African Masculinities: An Introduction	1	(20)
Robert Morrell and Lahoucine Ouzgane
I. Interpreting Masculinities	21	(66)
1. A Grammar of Black Masculinity: A Body of Science	23	(20)
Arthur F. Saint-Aubin
2. Somewhere, over the Rainbow: Cape Town, South Africa, as a "Gay Destination"	43	(18)
Glen S. Elder
3. Visualizing Homosexualities in Africa-Dakan: An Interview with Filmmaker Mohamed Camara	61	(14)
Beti Ellerson
4. Hausa Concepts of Masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu	75	(14)
Frank A. Salamone
II. Representing Masculinities	87	(84)
5. To Be a Man: Changing Constructions of Manhood in Drum Magazine, 1951-1965	89	(20)
Lindsay Clowes
6. Of Masks, Mimicry, Misogyny, and Miscegenation: Forging Black South African Masculinity in Bloke Modisane's Blame Me on History	109	(12)
Meredith Goldsmith
7. The Troubled Masculinities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions	121	(16)
Kathryn Holland
8. (Dis)Enabling Masculinities: The Word and the Body, Class Politics, and Male Sexuality in El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile	137	(16)
Sally Hayward
9. The Masculine Subject of Colonialism: The Egyptian Loss of the Sudan	153	(18)
Wilson Chacko Jacob
III. Constructing Masculinities	171	(66)
10. Gender and Embodiment: Expectations of Manliness in a Zambian Village	173	(16)
Paul Dover
11. Poverty, Male Disempowerment, and Male Sexuality: Rethinking Men and Masculinities in Rural and Urban East Africa	189	(16)
Margrethe Silberschmidt
12. Violence and the Gendered Negotiation of Masculinity Among Young Black School Boys in South Africa	205	(16)
Deevia Bhana
13. "Ugandans," "Cats" and Others: Constructing Student Masculinities at the University of Botswana	221	(16)
Rob Pattman
IV. Contesting Masculinities	237	(68)
14. Indentured Masculinity in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910	239	(18)
Goolam Vahed
15. Men Doing "Women's Work": Masculinity and Gender Relations Among Street Vendors in Maputo, Mozambique	257	(14)
Victor Agadjanian
16. Men, Movements, and Gender Transformation in South Africa	271	(18)
Robert Morrell
17. Sexuality, Masculinity, and Infertility in Egypt: Potent Troubles in Marital and Medical Encounters	289	(16)
Marcia C. Inhorn
Index	305