Better dead than dishonored: Masculinity and male suicidal behavior in contemporary Ghana

Adinkrah, Mensah

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.10.011

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“…As Niko Besnier (2015) outlines, this seems to be widespread among young men in the global South. This is because the emergence of sport migration as a means of social mobility is linked to young people's engagement with structural changes taking place within society that are underpinned by a neoliberal ethos that encourages young people to be job creators not job seekers (Gough et al 2013), while simultaneously placing tremendous pressure on young men to be financially successful because monetary success is deemed an inherently masculine trait (Adinkrah 2012;Ungruhe 2010).…”

Section: Social Becoming Through Football Migration: Insights From Mamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

Ungruhe¹

2017

Boyhood Studies

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This article examines the present-day perception among boys and young men in West Africa that migration through football offers a way of achieving social standing and improving their life chances. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among footballers in urban southern Ghana between 2010 and 2016, we argue that young people's efforts to make it abroad and "become a somebody" through football is not merely an individual fantasy; it is rather a social negotiation of hope to overcome widespread social immobility in the region. It is this collective practice among a large cohort of young males-realistic or not-which qualifies conceptualizations of youth transitions such as waithood that dominate academic understanding of African youth today.

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Section: Social Becoming Through Football Migration: Insights From Mamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

Ungruhe¹

2017

Boyhood Studies

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“…This often translates into the local expression ɔyɛ ɔbarima kantinka (Akan, meaning, he's a real man) (Adinkrah 2012;Fiaveh et al 2015). It is important to note that to be good looking or handsome is not necessarily a common feature associated with 'real' masculinity across most cultures in Ghana even if there is this [mis]conception.…”

Section: Sensuality In Ghanamentioning

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Women’s Experiences of Sexual Pleasure in Ghana

Fiaveh¹,

Okyerefo

Fayorsey

2015

Sexuality & Culture

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Although sexual intercourse is an important aspect of women's sexuality, there is little knowledge on how women experience sexual pleasure in Ghana. In this paper we explore how women and men express sexual pleasure and highlight women's experience of sexual pleasure based on the narratives of 20 women and 16 men. Specifically, we focus on describing how women and men understand sexual pleasure, the factors that stimulate sexual pleasure, and show how women experience it. The interviewee's expressions of sexual pleasure were symbolic and had both direct and indirect manifestation. Ejaculation was reported to indicate a direct manifestation of sexual pleasure. Screams, facial and other expressions were reported to indicate indirect experiences of sexual pleasure, and were seen to be associated with female sexuality more than male sexuality. Women and men expressed sexual pleasure in a variety of ways (e.g., ejaculation, screaming, "good pain", treating a partner nicely after sex, asking rhetoric questions during sex, and prolonged sex intercourse) and there were no differences in the meanings both women and men ascribed to sexual pleasure, regardless of their demographic profiles. Women reported experiencing sexual pleasure as their male partners did based on meanings they attach to erotic sensuality as expressed in romance, foreplay, and physical attractiveness. If sex is sexually stimulating (e.g., due to a partner's agreeable personal hygiene), women would engage in it. Well-intentioned sexuality programmes emphasizing partners' touching each other for pleasure, as well as educating partners to maintain erotic sensuality is compelling for inducing sexual pleasure.

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“…A man is expected to face his problems stoically and alone. If he cannot find solutions, it is better to die than live a shameful life in perpetuity (Adinkrah, 2012). In general, Ghanaian masculinity ideals promote independence and discourage help-seeking behavior in men.…”

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“…Social reproach towards suicidal behavior is manifested in the brevity of the grieving period, discouragement of public mourning, the enactment of perfunctory burial rites, as well as the prohibition of funeral obsequies. In addition, following a suicide death, elaborate decontamination rituals are performed to purge the community of the taboo of suicide (Adinkrah, 2012).…”

Section: Suicide In Ghanamentioning

confidence: 99%

Confessions: Suicidal ideation on a Ghanaian radio program

Adinkrah¹

2014

J. Public Health Epidemiol.

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Better dead than dishonored: Masculinity and male suicidal behavior in contemporary Ghana

Cited by 149 publications

References 11 publications

A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

Women’s Experiences of Sexual Pleasure in Ghana

Confessions: Suicidal ideation on a Ghanaian radio program

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