Description |
276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Note |
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. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
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. |
Subject |
Sex role -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Sex role. |
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Africa. |
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Sex customs -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Sex customs. |
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Women -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Women -- Sexual behavior. |
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Gender roles. |
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Sexual practices. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Arnfred, Signe.
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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
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Added Title |
Rethinking sexualities in Africa |
ISBN |
917106513X paperback |
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