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Re-thinking sexualities in Africa
- Title
- Re-thinking sexualities in Africa / edited by Signe Arnfred.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, c2004.
- Description
- 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Other contributors
- Arnfred, Signe. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
- Variant title
- Rethinking sexualities in Africa
- Notes
- Chiefly papers presented at a workshop organized in Uppsala in Feb. 2002 by the Nordic Africa Institute's Sexuality, Gender, and Society in Africa research program. Includes bibliographical references. Water damaged.
- Contents
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- Re-thinking sexualities in Africa: introduction / Signe Arnfred
- UNDER WESTERN EYES
- Efundula: women's initiation, gender and sexual identities in colonial and post-colonial Northern Namibia / Heike Becker
- 'African sexuality'/sexuality in Africa: tales and silences / Signe Arnfred
- A reflection on the cultural meanings of female circumcision. Experiences from fieldwork in Casamance, Southern Senegal / Liselott Dellenborg
- Preventing HIV? Medical discourses and invisible women / Katarina Jungar, Elina Oinas
- Whose 'unmet need'? Dis/agreement about childbearing among Ghanaian couples / Akosua Adomako Ampofo
- PROBLEMS OF PLEASURE AND DESIRE
- Kinky politics / Kopano Ratele
- Opening a can of worms: a debate of female sexualtiy in the lecture theatre / Mumbi Machera
- Paradoxes of female sexuality in Mali. On the practices of Magnonmaka and Bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo
- FEMALE AGENCY
- Understanding sexuality in Africa: diversity and contextualised diversity / Jo Helle-Valle
- 'Prostitutes' or modern women? Negotiating respectability in Northern Tanzania / Liv Haram
- Masculinities, sexuality and socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa / Margrethe Silberschmidt
- Re-conceptualizing African gender theory: feminism, womanism and the Arere metaphor / Mary E. Modupe Kolawole.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex customs--Africa. Gender role identification--Africa. Women--Africa. Sex behavior--Female--Africa. Status of women--Africa.
- ISBN
- 917106513X (pbk.) 9789171065131 (pbk.)