Making men in Ghana
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Making men in Ghana
Indiana University Press, c2005
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-310) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue and Personae
1. "To Be a Man Is Hard": Masculinities and Life Histories
2. Children and Childhood: Work and Play, 1900-1930
3. Forms of Education: Apprenticeships and Schools, 1919-1947
4. The Employment of Men: Clerks, Police, Soldiers, and Teachers, 1930-1951
5. The Marriages of Men: Sexuality and Fatherhood, 1930-1970
6. Speaking Sensibly: Men as Elders in the Twentieth Century
Epilogue: "No Condition Is Permanent"
Postscript
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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