Changing Men in Southern Africa.Changing Men in Southern Africa
Robert Morrell University of Natal The University of Natal was a university in Natal, and later KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, and expanded to include a campus in Durban in 1931. Press, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , 2001 Changing Men in Southern Africa looks at the different kinds of masculinity that exist in southern Africa, including white surfers, African lifesavers, Afrikaans-speaking supporters of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB, meaning Afrikaner Resistance Movement, is a political and paramilitary group in South Africa under the leadership of Eugène Terre'Blanche. (AWB See House Air Waybill. ), the Soweto Flying Squad, gay men, migrant labourers, African gold miners, unemployed youth, and black working class men. It investigates the ways in which these masculinities continually change: in some cases they accommodate challenge in order to preserve privilege, or respond to pressures with various kinds of violence. But in other situations, they embrace principles of democracy, peace and gender equity. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Distancing itself from biological explanations of male behaviour, Changing Men demonstrates that dominant interpretations of masculinity still sanction violence against women, gay people, younger men and those belonging to other racial and ethnic groups. But it also shows that men are vulnerable, and that they are increasingly contributing to more equitable gender relations. |
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