| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 302 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One : Framing the Debates. Human Rights Challenge in Africa: Sexual Minority Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights / Olajide Akanji and Marc Epprecht -- No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference / Notisha Massaquoi -- The Making of "African Sexuality": Early Sources, Current Debates / Marc Epprecht -- Rhetorical Analysis of President Jammeh's Threats to Behead Homosexuals in the Gambia / Stella Nyanzi. |
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Part Two : South Africa. Military Mutilation: The Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the Apartheid / Era Vasu Reddy, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Crystal Munthree -- Constructing the "Ex-Gay" Subject: Cultural Convergences in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Melissa Hackman -- The (Mis)Treatment of South African Track Star Caster / Semenya Shari L. Dworkin, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Cheryl Cooky. |
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Part Three : Comparative Studies. Mobilizing against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, and the "Paranoid Style" in Cameroon / S.N. Nyeck -- "The One Who First Says I Love You": Love, Seniority, and Relational Gender in Postcolonial Ghana / Serena Owusua Dankwa -- LGBTI Community and Citizenship Practices in Urban Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Male Homosexuality in Bamako: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Comparative Perspective / Christophe Broqua -- The Politics of Sexual Diversity: An Afterword / Sylvia Tamale. |
| Summary |
A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sexual minorities -- Africa.
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Sexual minorities. |
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Africa. |
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Sex -- Africa.
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Sex. |
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Gender identity -- Africa.
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Gender identity. |
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Queer theory -- Africa.
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Queer theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
LGBTQ+ people. |
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Sexual minorities. |
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Gender identity. |
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Queer theory. |
| Added Author |
Nyeck, S. N., 1977- editor.
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Epprecht, Marc, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Sexual diversity in Africa. (CaOONL)20139028463 |
| ISBN |
9780773589759 (electronic book) |
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0773589759 (electronic book) |
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9780773541870 (bound) |
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077354187X (bound) |
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9780773541887 (paperback) |
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0773541888 (paperback) |
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9780773589766 (ePUB) |
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0773589767 (ePUB) |
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