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Readings in Sexualities from Africa /
Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy chara...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press ;
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Reading "sexualities" from "Africa" / Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks
- Is there a distinct African sexuality? A critical response to Caldwell / Beth Maina Ahlberg
- Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism. race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane
- "Bisexuality" and the politics of normal African ethnography / Marc Epprecht
- On being area-studied: a litany of complaint / Keguro Macharia
- Dangerous aphrodisiac, restless sexuality: venereal disease, biomedicine, and protectionism in colonial Lagos, Nigeria / Saheed Aderinto
- Irua Ria Atumia and anticolonial struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: a counternarrative on "female genital mutilation" / Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi
- "These women, they force us to rape them": rape as narrative of social control in postapartheid South Africa / Helen Moffett
- "Transparent sexualities": sexual openness, HIV disclosure, and the governmentality of sexuality in South Africa / Marian Burchardt
- A note on "woman marriage" in Dahomey / Melville Jean Herskovits
- Sexual inversion among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard
- "A man is a man completely and a wife is a wife completely": gender classification and performance among "ladies" and "gents" in Ermelo, Mpumalanga / Graeme Reid
- The imagined homoconference: "activistism" and the politics of indirection / Serena Owusu Dankwa
- The materiality of everyday sex: thinking beyond "prostitution" / Mark Hunter
- On remuneration for homosexual practices in Bamako / Christophe Broqua
- Belonging in ethnocentric economies: adultery, alerity, and ritual in postcolonial Kenya / George Paul Meiu
- The pleasures of the city: masculinity, sexuality, and femininity in Dakar (1997-2000) / Tshikala Kayembe Biaya
- Postcolonial histories of sexuality: the political invention of libidinal African straight / Basile Ndjio
- Homosexuality, politics, and pentecostal nationalism in Zambia / Adriaan S. van Klinken
- "He uses my body": female traditional healers, male ancestors, and transgender in South Africa / Cheryl Stobie
- The sexual potentate: on sodomy, fellatio, and other postcolonial privacies / Achille Mbembe
- Sex life among young people / Jomo Kenyatta
- Eroticism, sensuality, and women's secrets among the Baganda: a critical analysis / Sylvia Tamale
- Sex, food, and female power: discussion of data material from northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred
- My childhood as an adult molester: a Salt River moffie / Zackie Achmat.