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Love in Africa / edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas.
LIBRA HQ18.A35 L68 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Africa.
- Sex.
- Sex--Social aspects--Africa.
- Love--Africa.
- Love.
- Love--Social aspects--Africa.
- Love--Social aspects.
- Sex--Social aspects.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction: thinking through love in Africa / Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole
- Love, sex, and the modern girl in 1930s southern Africa / Lynn M. Thomas
- Making love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanzibari audiences, and the construction of romance in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Fair
- "Dear Dolly's" advice: representations of youth, courtship, and sexualities in Africa, 1960-1980 / Kenda Mutongi
- Love, money, and economies of intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar / Jennifer Cole
- Providing love: sex and exchange in twentieth-century South Africa / Mark Hunter
- Managing men, marriage, and modern love: women's perspectives on intimacy and male infidelity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith
- Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi / Rachel Spronk
- Lessons from Rubí: love, poverty, and the educational value of televised dramas in Niger / Adeline Masquelier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226113524
- 9780226113531
- 0226113523
- 0226113531
- OCLC:
- 262429522
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