Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa

by Thembisa Waetjen

Overview

In this compact, powerful new study Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilization of Zulu nationalism in South Africa as antiapartheid efforts gained force during the 1980s. Undercutting assumptions of male power and nationalism as monolithic, Workers and Warriors demonstrates the ways that masculinities may be plural, conflict-ridden, and crucial not only to the formation of loyalty but also to why some nationalisms fail.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252029080
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	05/12/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Thembisa Waetjen most recently taught as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Natal, Durban. She has published articles in journals such as Theory and Society and, with co-author Gerhard Maré, was a contributor to Changing Men in Southern Africa.
 
 

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	1
1.	Inkatha, Chief Buthelezi, and the Politics of Zulu Nationalism	11
2.	From Agrarian Patriarchy to Patriarchal Capitalism: Gender and Ethnicity in Historical Perspective	30
3.	The "Home" in Homeland: Gender and National Space	51
4.	Unsettled Patriarchy: Conflicts over Political Authority and Masculine Identity	69
5.	Zulu Masculinity in the Marketplace of Struggle	93
	Conclusion: Gender and Nationalism	121
	Notes	135
	Bibliography	147
	Index	155