“Land of my sons”: The politics of gender in Black Consciousness poetry

Pucherová, Dobrota

doi:10.1080/17449850903065192

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“…When Mandela retired in 1999, the new President Thabo Mbeki carried forward part of Mandela's gender equality program. Mbeki, however, was viewed as aloof, dictatorial, and bullying and this, together with a resistance to the program of gender equality itself, eroded support not only for him as president but also for the new masculinity that Mandela had attempted to develop (Gevisser 2007;Pucherova 2009). A gap opened up between the masculine ideals reflected in and through the highest political office and by the rank and file membership of the ANC.…”

Section: Contested Political Dominance and Shifting Hegemonic Masculimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Populist theories offered the view that gender was relatively unimportant in the context of race oppression and therefore that Africans were united across gender lines. The politics that flows from this has tended to down-scale interest in gender generally and in masculinities specifically (Morrell 2005). In these feminist origins, the South African case differs markedly from the Swedish one discussed in the next essay.…”

Section: Feminism Gender Equality and The Study Of Men/masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hegemonic Masculinity/Masculinities in South Africa

Morrell

Jewkes

Lindegger

2012

Men and Masculinities

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The concept of hegemonic masculinity has had a profound impact on gender activism and has been taken up particularly in health interventions. The concept was part of a conceptual gendered vocabulary about men which opened up analytical space for research on masculinity and prompted a generation of gender interventions with men. Academic work focused primarily on relations between men, to the neglect of relations with women, while paradoxically acknowledging the power that men had over women. Interventions that drew on theories of masculinities focused on the content of hegemonic masculinity, identifying hegemony with oppressive attitudes and practices. Hegemonic masculinity was considered singular and universal, with little acknowledgment given to research-based work that argued for a model of multiple hegemonic masculinities. An unintended consequence of efforts to promote gender equity through a focus on men and hegemony has been a recent popular discursive backlash. In this, Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema, presidents of the African National Congress (ANC) and the ANC youth league respectively, have sought to valorize an African masculinity that is race-specific, backward-looking, and predicated on the notion of male superiority. In this article, the authors argue that the concept of hegemonic masculinities retains a utility in both scholarship and

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Section: Contested Political Dominance and Shifting Hegemonic Masculimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Feminism Gender Equality and The Study Of Men/masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%