To be a man is not a one-day job : masculinity, money, and intimacy in Nigeria /

Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom "to be a man is not a one-day job." But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns about the shifting meanings of masculinity,...

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Tác giả chính: Smith, Daniel Jordan, 1961- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1595776
Mục lục:
  • From boys to men: learning to love women and money
  • Expensive intimacies: courtship, marriage, and fatherhood
  • "Money problem": work, class, consumption, and men's social status
  • "Ahhheee club": money, intimacy, and male peer groups
  • Masculinity gone awry: intimate partner violence, crime, and insecurity
  • Becoming an elder, burying one's father.