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Title Re-thinking sexualities in Africa / edited by Signe Arnfred.

Publication Info. Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  HQ1075.5.A35 R48 2004    Available  ---
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.
Sex role.
Africa.
Sex customs -- Africa -- Congresses.
Sex customs.
Women -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Women.
Social conditions.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Africa -- Congresses.
Women -- Sexual behavior.
Gender roles.
Sexual practices.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Arnfred, Signe.
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
Added Title Rethinking sexualities in Africa
ISBN 917106513X paperback