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Patriarchy, Politics, and the Performance of Masculinity Patriarchy, Politics, and the Performance of Masculinity
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Nigerian Masculinity(ies) Nigerian Masculinity(ies)
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Intimacy and Masculinity in Contemporary Nigeria Intimacy and Masculinity in Contemporary Nigeria
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Money Makes a Man: Social Inequality and Conspicuous Redistribution Money Makes a Man: Social Inequality and Conspicuous Redistribution
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Studying Men in Southeastern Nigeria Studying Men in Southeastern Nigeria
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Organization of the Chapters Organization of the Chapters
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Abstract
Men’s complaints about monetary hardships are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria. But while men talk frequently about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns about the shifting meanings of manhood, marked by changing expectations and practices of intimacy. This introduction lays out the book’s main argument that money and intimacy are deeply bound together in men’s lives. It foreshadows how analyzing the complex geometry of men, money, and intimacy enables a better understanding of both masculinity and Nigerian society. Yet as the author shows by developing the concept of conspicuous redistribution, it is not just how much money a man has that matters, but whether and in what manner he is willing and able to spend it on others. Further, even as money is necessary for every relationship in a man’s life, it symbolizes suspicions about men’s motives, threatening both emotional intimacy and moral social relationships. Refuting simplistic claims of a “crisis of masculinity,” the introduction sets up a nuanced ethnographic examination of the challenges of masculinity in Nigeria as men traverse the deeply intertwined arenas of economics and social relations, wherein the tyranny of money intersects inextricably with transformations of intimate sociality.
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