African Masculinities
Subtitle: Men in Africa from the Late 19th Century to the Present
Contributors: Lahoucine Ouzgane (Editor); Robert Morrell (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781403965875
Subjects: Men's studies; 20th century; 21st century; c 1800 to c 1900; Masculinity; Africa - General; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Africa; Men; Men's Studies - Masculinity; History-Africa - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Men's Studies - Masculinity; Blacks; Race relations
First sentence: Eighteenth-century European science set out to codify common assumptions about dark male bodies; indeed, science began to recodify these assumptions since the efforts made during the 1700s were not new.