Of wounded killers and ‘failed men’ : broadening the quest for liberating African masculinities

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dc.contributor.author Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-27T14:44:21Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-27T14:44:21Z
dc.date.issued 2018-07
dc.description.abstract In order to broaden the search for liberating African masculinities, I engage with key and recent works on masculinity within the African context. I explore some of the reasons why scholarship on masculinity in Africa – especially scholarship within the context of religion and beyond interventionist and advocacy work – remains sparse and inadequate. In this article I advocate for scholarship on masculinities which is situated at the intersection of culture, religion and politics and argue that while it is important to begin this search through examining conventional sacred texts, it is necessary to interrogate modern ‘sacred texts’ in order to broaden this quest. To illustrate our main argument and to highlight key aspects of hegemonic masculinities in Africa, I draw on Thando Mgqolozana’s novel, A man who is not a man. en_ZA
dc.description.department Science of Religion and Missiology en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2019 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://epubs.ac.za/index.php/AJGR/index en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Maluleke, T.S. 2018, 'Of wounded killers and ‘failed men’ : broadening the quest for liberating African masculinities', African Journal of Gender and Religion, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 33-78. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1025-5648
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/69211
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher University of the Western Cape en_ZA
dc.rights © 2018 University of the Western Cape. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. en_ZA
dc.subject Masculinity en_ZA
dc.subject Africa en_ZA
dc.subject Religion en_ZA
dc.subject Politics en_ZA
dc.title Of wounded killers and ‘failed men’ : broadening the quest for liberating African masculinities en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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