Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780252029080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 158 str.

Thembisa Waetjen

Opis

Using South Africa as a case study this book explores how the politics of masculinity and gender power are at the heart of tensions in nation building. In this compact, powerful new study Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilization of Zulu nationalism in South Africa as antiapartheld efforts gained force during the 1980s. Undercutting assumptions of male power and nationalism as monolithic, Workers and Warriors demonstrates the ways that masculinities may be plural, conflict-ridden, and crucial not only to the formation of loyalty but also to why some nationalisms fail.