African intimacies : race, homosexuality, and globalization /

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There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the ÒAfricannessÓ of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms ÒsexualityÓ and Òhomosexu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Homosexuality > Africa.
Gays > Africa > History.
AIDS (Disease) > Africa.
HIV infections > Africa.
Homosexualité > Afrique.
Homosexuels > Afrique > Histoire.
Sida > Afrique.
Infections à VIH > Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
AIDS (Disease)
Gays
HIV infections
Homosexuality
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Africa > Social life and customs.
Africa > Politics and government.
Afrique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement.
Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the ÒAfricannessÓ of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms ÒsexualityÓ and ÒhomosexualityÓ outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the 1886 Bugandan martyrs incidentÑthe execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then, in a series of close readings, he addres.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxxiii, 187 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.
ISBN:9780816698981
0816698988

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