This collection is the first to analyze the concepts and issues involved in exploring African men and the constructions of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa. Major themes include men as gendered actors, the social construction of masculinity, masculinity as a relational category, and hegemonic and subordinate masculinities.
Introduction, Stephan F. Miescher and Lisa A. Lindsay
Challenging Senior Masculinity; Forsaking Their Fathers? Colonialism, Christianity,and Coming of Age in Ovamboland, Northern Namibia, Meredith McKittrick
"And She Became a Man": King Ahebi Ugbabe in the History of Enugu-Ezike, Northern Igboland, 1880-1948, Nwando Achebe
Old Soldiers, Young Men: Masculinity, Islam, and Military Veterans in Late 1950s Soudan Francais (Mali), Gregory Mann
(Re)Making Men in Colonial Africa; The Making of Presbyterian Teachers: Masculinities and Programs of Education in Colonial Ghana, Stephan F. Miescher
"Taken as Boys": The Politics of Black Police Employment and Experience in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa, Keith Shear
Industrial Man Goes to Africa, Frederick Cooper
Money, Marriage, and Masculinity on the Colonial Nigerian Railway, Lisa A. Lindsay
A "Man" in the Village Is a "Boy" in the Workplace: Colonial Sadism, Worker Militance, and Igbo Notions of Masculinity in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1930-1945, Carolyn A. Brown
Gendered Nationalisms; Matrimony and Rebellion: Masculinity in Mau Mau, Luise White
Gendered Nationalism: Forms of Masculinity in Modern Asante of Ghana, Pashington Obeng
Masculinity and Modernity; Being Maasai Men: Modernity and the Production of Maasai Masculinities, Dorothy L. Hodgson
To Be A Man Is More Than a Day's Work: Shifting Ideals of Masculinity in Ado-Odo, Southwestern Nigeria, Andres A. Cornwall
Afterword, Luise White
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