Poverty, male disempowerment, and male sexuality: Rethinking men and masculinities in rural and urban East Africa

African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 189-203

  Silberschmidt, Margrethe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403979605     Document Type: Chapter

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