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Making men in Ghana [electronic resource] / Stephan F. Miescher.

By: Miescher, Stephan.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2005Description: xxxii, 323 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Men -- Ghana | Men -- Ghana -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.31/096 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
"To be a man is hard" : masculinities and life histories -- Children and childhood : work and play, 1900-1930 -- Forms of education : apprenticeships and schools, 1919-1947 -- The employment of men : clerks, police, soldiers, and teachers, 1930-1951 -- The marriages of men : sexuality and fatherhood, 1930-1970 -- Speaking sensibly : men as elders in the twentieth century -- Epilogue : "No condition is permanent" -- Postscript.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-310) and index.

"To be a man is hard" : masculinities and life histories -- Children and childhood : work and play, 1900-1930 -- Forms of education : apprenticeships and schools, 1919-1947 -- The employment of men : clerks, police, soldiers, and teachers, 1930-1951 -- The marriages of men : sexuality and fatherhood, 1930-1970 -- Speaking sensibly : men as elders in the twentieth century -- Epilogue : "No condition is permanent" -- Postscript.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.