Making Men in Ghana - Brossura

Miescher, Stephan F.

 
9780253217868: Making Men in Ghana
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ISBN 10: 0253217865 ISBN 13: 9780253217868
Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2005

Sinossi

By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, Making Men in Ghana explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. Stephan F. Miescher concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation. Miescher shows how they negotiated complex social and economic transformations and how they dealt with their mounting obligations and responsibilities as leaders in their kinship groups, churches, and schools. Not only were notions about men and masculinity shaped by community standards, but they were strongly influenced by imported standards that came from missionaries and other colonial officials. As he recounts the life histories of these men, Miescher reveals that the passage to manhood—and a position of power, seniority, authority, and leadership—was not always welcome or easy. As an important foil for studies on women and femininity, this groundbreaking book not only explores masculinity and ideals of male behavior, but offers a fresh perspective on African men in a century of change.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-editor of African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History (IUP, 2001) and of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa.



Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-editor of African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History (IUP, 2001) and of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa.

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Editore
Indiana Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0253217865
ISBN 13 
9780253217868
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
323
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Buchpark GmbH
gpsr@buchpark.de

Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
Germania

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9780253346360: Making Men in Ghana

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ISBN 10:  0253346363 ISBN 13:  9780253346360
Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2005
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