Men Behaving Differently
South Africa Men Since 1994
Published on 30. April 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-919930-98-5 (ISBN)
Description
Recent years have seen a growing world-wide concern about men and boys. Do boys have appropriate role models at home? Are girls outperforming boys at school? Is men's health under undue pressure? The nature of masculinity has been brought into question by a radical reorganisation of gender relations. Indeed, many now speak of a 'crisis in masculinity'. South Africa has made a rapid shift from a male-dominated patriarchal society, to a new social order based on ideals of equality between men and women. How have men responded to these changes? How do men achieve successful masculinity in this new context? These are some of the questions that are explored in this book by leading researchers in the field.
Recent years have seen a growing world-wide concern about men and boys. Do boys have appropriate role models at home? Are girls outperforming boys at school? Is men's health under undue pressure? The nature of masculinity has been brought into question by a radical reorganisation of gender relations. Indeed, many now speak of a 'crisis in masculinity'. South Africa has made a rapid shift from a male-dominated patriarchal society, to a new social order based on ideals of equality between men and women. How have men responded to these changes? How do men achieve successful masculinity in this new context? These are some of the questions that are explored in this book by leading researchers in the field.
Recent years have seen a growing world-wide concern about men and boys. Do boys have appropriate role models at home? Are girls outperforming boys at school? Is men's health under undue pressure? The nature of masculinity has been brought into question by a radical reorganisation of gender relations. Indeed, many now speak of a 'crisis in masculinity'. South Africa has made a rapid shift from a male-dominated patriarchal society, to a new social order based on ideals of equality between men and women. How have men responded to these changes? How do men achieve successful masculinity in this new context? These are some of the questions that are explored in this book by leading researchers in the field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Town
South Africa
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 136 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-919930-98-5 (9781919930985)
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Persons
Liz Walker is a lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, and previously senior researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). Graeme Reid is a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a doctoral candidate in the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.
Liz Walker is a lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, and previously senior researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). Graeme Reid is a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a doctoral candidate in the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.
Liz Walker is a lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, and previously senior researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). Graeme Reid is a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a doctoral candidate in the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.
Content
Baby rape - unmasking secrets of sexual violence in post-apartheid South Africa by Deborah Posel; masculine domination in sexual violence - interpreting accounts of three cases of rape in the South African lowveld by Isak Niehause; rules of engagement - structuring sex and damage in men's prisons and beyond by Sasha Gear; 'You have to change and you don't know how!' - contesting what it means to be a man in a rural area of South Africa by Tina Sideris; cultural politics and masculinities - multiple-partners in historical perspective in KwaZulu-Natal by Mark Hunter; negotiating the boundaries of masculinity in post-apartheid South Africa by Liz Walker; male-male sexuality in Lesotho - two conversations by Marc Epprecht; gender classification and performance amongst 'ladies' and 'gents' in Ermelo, Mpumalanga by Graeme Reid.