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

Contributor(s):

Arnfred, Signe

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, c2004.Description: 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

917106513X (pbk.)

Other title:

Rethinking sexualities in Africa

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DDC classification:

305.3 THI

Contents:

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

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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

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