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Becoming Men : Black Masculinities in a South African Township.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (149 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781776145690
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Becoming MenDDC classification:
  • 305.31
LOC classification:
  • HQ1090.7.S6 .L364 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 What Makes a Man a Man? -- 2 Reshaping Masculinities - Understanding the Lives of Adolescent Boys -- 3 Backdrop to Alex - South African Townships and Stories in Context -- 4 Absent Fathers, Present Mothers -- 5 Pressures to Perform - Tsotsi Boys vs Academic Achievement -- 6 Double Standards - Dating, Sex and Girls -- 7 Defying Homophobia: 'This is Who I am, Finish and Klaar' -- 8 Young Fathers and the World of Work -- 9 'I'm Still Hopeful, Still Positive' - Holding onto a Dream -- 10 Safe Spaces - Listening, Hearing, Action -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Becoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity. Psychologist and academic, Malose Langa documents what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 What Makes a Man a Man? -- 2 Reshaping Masculinities - Understanding the Lives of Adolescent Boys -- 3 Backdrop to Alex - South African Townships and Stories in Context -- 4 Absent Fathers, Present Mothers -- 5 Pressures to Perform - Tsotsi Boys vs Academic Achievement -- 6 Double Standards - Dating, Sex and Girls -- 7 Defying Homophobia: 'This is Who I am, Finish and Klaar' -- 8 Young Fathers and the World of Work -- 9 'I'm Still Hopeful, Still Positive' - Holding onto a Dream -- 10 Safe Spaces - Listening, Hearing, Action -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Becoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity. Psychologist and academic, Malose Langa documents what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa.

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