Re-thinking sexualities in Africa /
Re-thinking sexualities in Africa /
Rethinking sexualities in Africa
edited by Signe Arnfred.
- Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, c2004.
- 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Re-thinking sexualities in Africa : introduction / Signe Arnfred
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
Kinky politics / Kopano Ratele
Opening a can of worms : a debate of female sexuality in the lecture theatre / Mumbi Machera
Paradoxes of female sexuality in Mali : on the practices of magnonmaka and bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo
Understanding sexuality in Africa : diversity and contextualised dividuality / 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 Kolawole
eng
917106513X (pbk.) TZs.9000/-
Sex role--Africa--Congresses.
Sex customs--Africa--Congresses.
Women--Africa--Congresses.
Women--Africa--Congresses.
305.3 THI
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Re-thinking sexualities in Africa : introduction / Signe Arnfred
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
Kinky politics / Kopano Ratele
Opening a can of worms : a debate of female sexuality in the lecture theatre / Mumbi Machera
Paradoxes of female sexuality in Mali : on the practices of magnonmaka and bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo
Understanding sexuality in Africa : diversity and contextualised dividuality / 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 Kolawole
eng
917106513X (pbk.) TZs.9000/-
Sex role--Africa--Congresses.
Sex customs--Africa--Congresses.
Women--Africa--Congresses.
Women--Africa--Congresses.
305.3 THI