Re-thinking sexualities in Africa /
- Second edition
- 276 pages : illustrations ;
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
Re-thinking sexualities in Africa : introduction / Signe Arnfred -- 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 -- Kinky politics / Kopano Ratele -- Opening a can of worms : a debate of female sexuality in the lecture theatre / Mumbi Machera -- Paradoxes of female sexuality in Mali : on the practices of magnonmaka and bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo -- Understanding sexuality in Africa : diversity and contextualised dividuality / 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 Kolawole
9789171065667 (pbk.) 9171065660 (pbk.) 917106513X 9789171065131
Sex role
Sex customs
Women
Women
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
Re-thinking sexualities in Africa : introduction / Signe Arnfred -- 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 -- Kinky politics / Kopano Ratele -- Opening a can of worms : a debate of female sexuality in the lecture theatre / Mumbi Machera -- Paradoxes of female sexuality in Mali : on the practices of magnonmaka and bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo -- Understanding sexuality in Africa : diversity and contextualised dividuality / 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 Kolawole
9789171065667 (pbk.) 9171065660 (pbk.) 917106513X 9789171065131
Sex role
Sex customs
Women
Women