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.
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