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Workers and warriors: Inkatha's politics of masculinity in the 1980's
Journal of contemporary African studies • 17 (2) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 197-216
By: Waetjen, Thembisa, Maré, Gerhard.
Abstract
This article investigates the ways in which gender and race are evoked in Inkatha's militant ethnic politics and how its conception of Zuluness and of blackness were bound up with the issues of manliness and male mobilization. The authors note the need to relate Inkatha's mobilization narratives of the 1980s to historical and structural realities that made an impact on the geographical and social positioning of men in relation to ethnic politics, to modes of production and vis-á-vis relations of gender. This study examines how masculinities, 'men's places and practices in the large social framework of gender relations', are accommodated and newly defined within the political discourse of Inkatha (pp. 197-198)
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Southern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field Date
- 1980s
- Coverage Date
- 1800-1980s
- Coverage Place
- KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
- Notes
- Thembisa Waetjen and Gerhard Maré
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216 p.)
- LCSH
- Zulu (African people)