Re-thinking sexualities in Africa / 
 Rethinking sexualities in Africa 
edited by Signe Arnfred. 
 - Uppsala, Sweden :  Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,  c2004. 
 - 276 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Re-thinking sexualities in Africa : introduction / Signe Arnfred<br/>Efundula : women's initiation, gender and sexual identities in colonial and post-colonial northern Namibia / Heike Becker<br/>'African sexuality'/sexuality in Africa : tales and silences / Signe Arnfred<br/>A reflection on the cultural meanings of female circumcision : experiences from fieldwork in Casamance, southern Senegal / Liselott Dellenborg<br/>Preventing HIV? : medical discourses and invisible women / Katarina Jungar, Elina Oinas<br/>Whose 'unmet need'? : dis/agreement about childbearing among Ghanaian couples / Akosua Adomako Ampofo<br/>Kinky politics / Kopano Ratele<br/>Opening a can of worms : a debate of female sexuality in the lecture theatre / Mumbi Machera<br/>Paradoxes of female sexuality in Mali : on the practices of magnonmaka and bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo<br/>Understanding sexuality in Africa : diversity and contextualised dividuality / Jo Helle-Valle<br/>'Prostitutes' or modern women? : negotiating respectability in northern Tanzania / Liv Haram<br/>Masculinities, sexuality and socio-economic change in rural and urban east Africa / Margrethe Silberschmidt<br/>Re-conceptualizing African gender theory : feminism, womanism and the arere metaphor / Mary Kolawole 
<br/><br/><br/>eng 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>917106513X (pbk.)  TZs.9000/- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex role--Africa--Congresses.<br/>Sex customs--Africa--Congresses.<br/>Women--Africa--Congresses.<br/>Women--Africa--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.3 THI