{"product_id":"an-uncertain-age-paul-ocobock-9780821422649","title":"An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans' contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity. Kenyan men and boys came of age achieving their manhood through changing rites of passage and access to new outlets such as town life, crime, anticolonial violence, and nationalism. And as they did, the colonial government appropriated masculinity and maturity as means of statecraft and control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAn Uncertain Age, \u003c\/i\u003e Paul Ocobock positions age and gender at the heart of everyday life and state building in Kenya. He excavates in unprecedented ways how the evolving concept of \"youth\" motivated and energized colonial power and the movements against it, exploring the masculinities boys and young men debated and performed as they crisscrossed the colony in search of wages or took the Mau Mau oath. Yet he also considers how British officials' own ideas about masculinity shaped not only young African men's ideas about manhood but the very nature of colonial rule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Uncertain Age\u003c\/i\u003e joins a growing number of histories that have begun to break down monolithic male identities to push the historiographies of Kenya and empire into new territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Ocobock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821422642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821422649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2018","brand":"Paul Ocobock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947346460927,"sku":"9780821422649","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_11037506-d0a8-4d17-bae9-d94293ef910a.jpg?v=1681518179","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-uncertain-age-paul-ocobock-9780821422649","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}