Accidental Queer
and other essays around critical masculinity studies in Southern Africa and Canada
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Accidental Queer
and other essays around critical masculinity studies in Southern Africa and Canada
About this book
Since the 1990s Marc Epprecht has helped lay the groundwork for critical masculinity and African queer studies with such publications as the award-winning Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa. Here he steps outside of the academic comfort zone with a mix of story-telling and reflection on his personal experiences, motivations, and methodological and ethical challenges through research and teaching on diverse topics encountered along the way: African women's history, homosexuality /homophobia, environmental history, HIV / AIDS, human rights, and tourism. A central concern is to understand how masculinities have been constructed and contested within disordered gender, race, class and other relations, and to wonder how the many associated harms might be fruitfully addressed at this moment of multiple existential crises. Understanding today's "hegemonic masculinity" as an artefact of colonialism and racial capitalism that is tenaciously reproduced through the fantasy of endless economic growth, he invites men to constructively engage with African feminism, decolonization and degrowth theory.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Acronyms and other terms
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Can Hegemonic Masculinity be Degrown?
- 2 Lesotho, or, how to learn from mistakes and lose the romantic gaze
- 3 Petticoats
- 4 Accidental Queer
- 5 Reflections on a Historianās Craft: an interview by Dr. Francisco Miguel (part one)
- 6 AIDS, Power and Poverty
- 7 Reflections on a Historianās Craft: an interview by Dr. Francisco Miguel (part two)
- 8 Confessions of an Anti-Tourist
- 9 Cliffs
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back cover