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Title:Migrancy and Male Sexuality on the South African Gold Mines
Authors:Moodie, T. DunbarISNI
Ndatshe, Vivienne
Sibuyi, British
Year:1988
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:14
Issue:2
Period:January
Pages:228-256
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:miners
labour migration
sexuality
gold mining
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Urbanization and Migration
Family Life
Cultural Roles
Labor and Employment
migration
Sex Roles
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636630
Abstract:This paper deals with the sexual conduct of black migrant workers on the South African gold mines in turn with each other and with women. It is based on the studies of Michel FOUCAULT (1966, 1980, 1982/83) who asserts that not only sex and gender roles but also modes of sexual activity are socially constructed. The first part is a descriptive analysis, a phenomenology, of male sexual experience on the mines. It deals first with miners' sexual relationships with 'boys', known as 'the wives of the mine', and then turns to relationships with women living on farms or in townships near the mines, known to the miners as 'town women'. The second part is more diachronic, depicting with a very broad brush the argument that for junior partners in certain of the men-boy relationships, sexual subordination was actually used as a resource in the longstanding resistance by migrant miners to proletarization. Notes, ref.
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