Making Men in Ghana

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments • ix Abbreviations • xiii Prologue and Personae • xv 1. “To Be a Man Is Hard”: Masculinities and Life Histories • 1 2. Children and Childhood: Work and Play, 1900–1930 • 17 3. Forms of Education: Apprenticeships and Schools, 1919–1947 • 48 4. The Employment of Men: Clerks, Police, Soldiers, and Teachers, 1930–1951 • 84 5. The Marriages of Men: Sexuality and Fatherhood, 1930–1970 • 115 6. Speaking Sensibly: Men as Elders in the Twentieth Century • 153 Epilogue: “No Condition Is Permanent” • 199 Postscript • 203 Glossary • 207 Notes • 209 Bibliography • 283 Index • 311 ...