African Masculinities

African Masculinities
Title African Masculinities PDF eBook
Author L. Ouzgane
Publisher Springer
Pages 311
Release 2005-03-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 140397960X

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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
Title Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa PDF eBook
Author Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher Heinemann Educational Books
Pages 292
Release 2003
Genre Education
ISBN

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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.

Becoming Men

Becoming Men
Title Becoming Men PDF eBook
Author Malose Langa
Publisher Wits University Press
Pages 202
Release 2020-04-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1776145674

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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.

Looking for Leroy

Looking for Leroy
Title Looking for Leroy PDF eBook
Author Mark Anthony Neal
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 222
Release 2013-04-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0814758363

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Discusses media portrayals of black men who are outside the expected roles of stock characters and are thus, "illegible" to spectators.

Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity

Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity
Title Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity PDF eBook
Author Dr Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 350
Release 2013-03-28
Genre Religion
ISBN 1472401522

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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
Title AIDS and Masculinity in the African City PDF eBook
Author Robert Wyrod
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 308
Release 2016-07-05
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 0520286693

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"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"--

Masculinity Under Construction

Masculinity Under Construction
Title Masculinity Under Construction PDF eBook
Author LaToya Jefferson-James
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 233
Release 2020-09-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1793615306

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Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors. In each chapter, Dr. Jefferson-James discusses a different "construction" or definition of masculine identity produced by men of African descent on the continent of Africa, in the Caribbean, and in North America. Combing through the works of James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Ralph Ellison, George Lamming, and other pan-African authors, Masculinity Under Construction argues for the importance of analyzing the historical context that contributed to the formation of Black male identity. Additionally, Dr. Jefferson-James draws a relationship between Black feminists and writers, such as Anna Julia Cooper and her contemporaries, and these works of literature viewed as primarily about Black masculinity.