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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1. 'Fashionable Strategies': Travels in Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sexualities Research 'in the West'?; Contemporary Writing on Gender and Sexualities Within African Contexts; Bringing it Home; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. Exploring the Contours of African Sexualities: Religion, Law and Power; Introduction: Linking Religion, Culture, Law and Sexuality; Law, Culture and Religion Viewed through the Lens of Power; The Sexual Citizen: Between Desire and the Law. |
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Out of the Margins: Challenging Structures of Sexual OppressionConclusion: African Religion and Sexualities -- Toward a Sociolegal Reconstruction; Notes; 3. The Power of Pleasure: Re-conceptualising Sexualities; Framing Alternative Approaches to Analysis of Female Sexualities; Epistemic Ruptures in Thinking about Gender; Female Initiation Rituals in Northern Mozambique; Preparations of the Erotic Body; Body Tattoos/Scarifications; Hip Belts of Glass Beads -- Missangas; Elongated Labia; Labia Elongation, Sexual Self-confidence and Categorisations; Erotic Movements; Conclusion; Notes; References. |
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4. Rethinking Sex and Secrecy in Precolonial African History: A Focus on KenyaIntroduction; Theorising Sex and Secrecy; Kenya and 'Sexuality' under Colonial Anthropology; Conclusion; References; 5. The 'G-String' as a Space for Sexual and Political Imagination: Rethinking Discourses of Youth, Power and Globalisation in Kenya; Introduction; The Voice of the 'G-String' as 'African Clothing'; Notes; References; 6. 'Daddy, Today we have a Match! 'Women's Agentic Strategies in Initiating Sexual Intercourse in an Urban Ghanaian Community; Introduction; Methodology; Data Analysis; Results. |
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DiscussionReferences; 7. Construction of Social Identity in the Erotic Juju Song-poetry of Saint Janet; Introduction; Reflections on Erotic Music; Strategies of Representation of Identity and Sexual Diversity; Agency and the Contradiction of the Yoruba Society; Conclusion; References; Nigerian Newspapers; 8. Language, Sex and Power Relations: An Analysis of Shona Sexual Expressions; Introduction; Approach to the Study; Uncovering the Connections between Shona Language; Bibliography; 9. Feminism: How Women in Uganda are Shaping the Way we Think about Sex and Politics; Introduction. |
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Framing the DebateResearch Methods; Women, Sex and Politics in Uganda; Emplacing Trends in Historical Perspective; Feminist Achievements into the Late 2000s; The Contemporary Spectrum -- Resistance and Resignation; What the Women Say; Conclusion; References; 10. HIV-Positive Women 'Virgins': The Complexities of Discourse on Issues of Sex and Sexuality in Zimbabwe; Introduction; HIV-Positive Women Virgins and the Discourse of 'Othering'; Discourses on Sex and Sexuality in Zimbabwe: The Challenges; HIV-Positive Virgins, Sex and Sexuality: The Dilemma. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Africa.
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Gender identity. |
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Africa. |
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Sex role -- Africa.
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Sex role. |
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Sex -- Africa.
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Sex. |
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Sexual health -- Africa.
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Sexual health. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Gender identity. |
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Gender roles. |
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Sexual health. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Research on gender and sexualities in Africa. Dakar : CODESRIA, 2017 (DLC) 2017321113 |
| ISBN |
2869787359 (electronic book) |
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9782869787353 (electronic book) |
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9782869787124 |
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