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

by Thembisa Waetjen (Editor)

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. Jndercutting 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.

168 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2006