- Title
- Destined to come to blows?: race and constructions of “rational-intellectual” masculinity ten years after apartheid
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141619
- Identifier
- vital:37990
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1177/1097184X05277694
- Description
- In 1994, a democratic government came to power in South Africa for the first time in the country's history. But political transition is never a single event or moment. Rather, it is a continuous process that faces setbacks and contradictions. One of the questions we might ask about a society in transition is to what extent its gender order has changed or is changing. The present paper sets out to read the country's transformation drama through the lens of contested conceptions of South African masculinity. The article is focused on one particular version of masculinity which it terms “rational-intellectual man,” and the argument is that a legacy of racism and the persistence of racialized modes of reasoning continue to marginalise black men from this and other powerful, high-status forms of hegemonic masculinity.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Men and Masculinities, Vincent, L., 2006. Destined to come to blows? Race and constructions of “rational-intellectual” masculinity ten years after apartheid. Men and Masculinities, 8(3), pp.350-366., Men and Masculinities volume 8 number 3 350 366 January 2006 1552-6828
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