Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 168 pages
- Published by: University of Illinois Press May 12, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0252029089
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0252029080
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Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 12 ounces
Book Description
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.