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Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves
About this book
This book presents an in-depth analysis of young people's experiences of diverse drinking practices, including heavy drinking and drunkenness, as fun and pleasurable as they navigate gendered leisure spaces. Using qualitative data elicited through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions, the analysis engages with theories and concepts of culture, gender, and transgression to foreground the roles that socio-cultural and material elements and human agency play in shaping alcohol consumption in contemporary Nigeria. It focuses on the enactment of hyper-heterosexual and alternative masculinities and the reconfigurations of passive and non-passive femininities through drinking practices. It also interrogates how and why multinational alcohol companies are targeting Nigerian women and youths and the extent to which their activities are contributing to changing gendered drinking and sexual practices, which are at odds with the extant local norms that promote abstinence, moderation among adults, and sexual purity among unmarried youths. Importantly, this book moves beyond solely Western theorizing by drawing on both Western and non-Western gender theories to analyze how contemporary Nigerian young men and women 'do' masculinity and femininity with alcohol and will be a valuable resource for social scientists, students, policymakers, practitioners, and the general public interested in youth drinking behaviours, multinational alcohol companies' activities, and decolonizing gender scholarship.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: Drinking Cultures in Nigeria, Gender, Transgression, and Study Methodology
- 2. Gendering of Alcohol and Transgressive Selves
- 3. Gendered Struggles for Drinking/Leisure Spaces
- 4. Reconfigured Drinking Cultures? Intoxication and Pleasure
- 5. Drinking Bouts: Motivations, Resistance, and Transgression
- 6. Alcoholic Bitters for Sweet Sex? Masculinity, Femininity, Alcohol, and Sex Consuming Selves in Heterosexual Relationships
- 7. Conclusion
- Back Matter