Readings In Sexualities From Africa
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Readings In Sexualities From Africa
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Author : Rachel Spronk
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Readings In Sexualities From Africa written by Rachel Spronk and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Health & Fitness categories.
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 characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent. They present a nuanced and comprehensive overview of the field of sex and sexuality in Africa to serve as a guide though the quickly expanding literature. This collection offers a set of texts that use sexuality as a prism for studying how communities coalesce against the canvas of larger political and economic contexts and how personal lives evolve therein. Scholars working in Africa, the U.S., and Europe reflect on issues of representation, health and bio-politics, same-sex relationships and identity, transactional economies of sex, religion and tradition, and the importance of pleasure and agency. This multidimensional reader provides a comprehensive view of sexuality from an African perspective.
Re Thinking Sexualities In Africa
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Author : Signe Arnfred
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2004
Re Thinking Sexualities In Africa written by Signe Arnfred and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Health & Fitness categories.
"This volume sets out to investigate critically existing lines of thought about sexuality in Africa, while also creating space for alternative approaches"--P. [4] of cover.
African Sexualities
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Author : Sylvia Tamale
language : en
Publisher: Fahamu/Pambazuka
Release Date : 2011-06-23
African Sexualities written by Sylvia Tamale and has been published by Fahamu/Pambazuka this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-23 with Psychology categories.
A groundbreaking book, accessible but scholarly, by African activists. It uses research, life stories, and artistic expression--including essays, case studies, poetry, news clips, songs, fiction, memoirs, letters, interviews, short film scripts, and photographs--to examine dominant and deviant sexualities and investigate the intersections between sex, power, masculinities, and femininities. It also opens a space, particularly for young people, to think about African sexualities in different ways.
Old Wineskins New Wine
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Author : Chimaraoke O. Izugbara
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Old Wineskins New Wine written by Chimaraoke O. Izugbara and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Sex categories.
A draft working definition of sexuality, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), lent some clarity to the fuzzy concept. The WHO draft definition conceptualises sexuality as 'a central aspect of being human throughout life [which] encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Questions about human sexuality have also begun to be asked in very imaginative ways, forcing the field of sexuality to spill over the margins of academic legitimacy and to increasingly hold its own as a valid field of intellectual inquiry. However, in many ways, in sub-Saharan Africa, sexuality as an academic field has been obligated to 'piggy-back' on public health in order to receive serious attention. The consideration of sexuality in the region without some connection with disease has often been perceived as a rather frivolous academic endeavour. Modifying this notion has been a slow but sure venture.
Readings In Gender In Africa
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Author : Andrea Cornwall
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005
Readings In Gender In Africa written by Andrea Cornwall and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.
African Intimacies
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Author : Neville Wallace Hoad
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2007
African Intimacies written by Neville Wallace Hoad and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
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 “Africanness” of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms “sexuality” and “homosexuality” 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 incident—the execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then, in a series of close readings, he addresses questions of race, sex, and globalization in the 1965 Wole Soyinka novel The Interpreters, examines the emblematic 1998 Lambeth conference of Anglican bishops, considers the imperial legacy in depictions of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and reveals how South African writer Phaswane Mpe’s contemporary novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow problematizes notions of African identity and cosmopolitanism. Hoad’s assessment of the historical valence of homosexuality in Africa shows how the category has served a key role in a larger story, one in which sexuality has been made in line with a vision of white Western truth, limiting an understanding of intimacy that could imagine an African universalism. Neville Hoad is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.
Research On Gender And Sexualities In Africa
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Author : Tamale, Sylvia
language : en
Publisher: CODESRIA
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Research On Gender And Sexualities In Africa written by Tamale, Sylvia and has been published by CODESRIA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Social Science categories.
This collection comprises a diverse and stimulating collection of essays on questions of gender and sexualities, crafted by both established and younger researchers. The collection includes fascinating insights into topics as varied as the popularity of thong underwear in urban Kenya, the complexity of Tanzanian youth’s negotiation of HIV-cultures, the dialogues between religion and controversial questions in sexualities activism, and the meaning of living as a Zimbabwean girl, who became HIV-positive because her mother had no access to antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. Some pieces deepen contemporary debates, others initiate new questions. The collection seeks to sustain and invigorate research, policy-making and continentaly-focused thought on difficult, yet compelling, realities.
Old Wineskins New Wine
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Author : Alex C. Ezeh
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Old Wineskins New Wine written by Alex C. Ezeh and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Africa, Sub-Saharan categories.
Gender Sexuality And Development
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Gender Sexuality And Development written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Education categories.
This book provides a timely contribution to the field of gender and development in the face of the looming failure of international development targets, the deepening HIV/AIDS pandemic and the increased incidence of civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Heterosexual Africa
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Author : Marc Epprecht
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-15
Heterosexual Africa written by Marc Epprecht and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-15 with Health & Fitness categories.
Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht’s previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed—by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of sources, that will find enthusiastic audiences in classrooms and in the general public. Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people all over the world, have always had a range of sexualities and sexual identities. Over the course of the last two centuries, however, African societies south of the Sahara have come to be viewed as singularly heterosexual. Epprecht carefully traces the many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity, became a dominant culture. In telling a fascinating story that will surely generate lively debate, Epprecht makes his project speak to a range of literatures—queer theory, the new imperial history, African social history, queer and women’s studies, and biomedical literature on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He does this with a light enough hand that his story is not bogged down by endless references to particular debates. Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an enduring stereotype about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa came to be defined as a “homosexual-free zone” during the colonial era, and how this idea not only survived the transition to independence but flourished under conditions of globalization and early panicky responses to HIV/AIDS.