Readings in Sexualities from Africa / edited by Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

EBSCO Industries.

Spronk, Rachel, editor.

Hendriks, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Readings in African studies.

Readings in African Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Africa.

Sex.

Sex--Social aspects.

Sexual orientation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent. They present a nuanced and comprehensive overview of the field of sex and sexuality in Africa to serve as a guide though the quickly expanding literature. This collection offers a set of texts that use sexuality as a prism for studying how communities coalesce against the canvas of larger political and economic contexts and how personal lives evolve therein. Scholars working in Africa, the U.S., and Europe reflect on issues of representation, health and bio-politics, same-sex relationships and identity, transactional economies of sex, religion and tradition, and the importance of pleasure and agency. This multidimensional reader provides a comprehensive view of sexuality from an African perspective.

Contents:

Introduction: Reading "sexualities" from "Africa" / Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks

Is there a distinct African sexuality? A critical response to Caldwell / Beth Maina Ahlberg

Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism. race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane

"Bisexuality" and the politics of normal African ethnography / Marc Epprecht

On being area-studied: a litany of complaint / Keguro Macharia

Dangerous aphrodisiac, restless sexuality: venereal disease, biomedicine, and protectionism in colonial Lagos, Nigeria / Saheed Aderinto

Irua Ria Atumia and anticolonial struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: a counternarrative on "female genital mutilation" / Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi

"These women, they force us to rape them": rape as narrative of social control in postapartheid South Africa / Helen Moffett

"Transparent sexualities": sexual openness, HIV disclosure, and the governmentality of sexuality in South Africa / Marian Burchardt

A note on "woman marriage" in Dahomey / Melville Jean Herskovits

Sexual inversion among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard

"A man is a man completely and a wife is a wife completely": gender classification and performance among "ladies" and "gents" in Ermelo, Mpumalanga / Graeme Reid

The imagined homoconference: "activistism" and the politics of indirection / Serena Owusu Dankwa

The materiality of everyday sex: thinking beyond "prostitution" / Mark Hunter

On remuneration for homosexual practices in Bamako / Christophe Broqua

Belonging in ethnocentric economies: adultery, alerity, and ritual in postcolonial Kenya / George Paul Meiu

The pleasures of the city: masculinity, sexuality, and femininity in Dakar (1997-2000) / Tshikala Kayembe Biaya

Postcolonial histories of sexuality: the political invention of libidinal African straight / Basile Ndjio

Homosexuality, politics, and pentecostal nationalism in Zambia / Adriaan S. van Klinken

"He uses my body": female traditional healers, male ancestors, and transgender in South Africa / Cheryl Stobie

The sexual potentate: on sodomy, fellatio, and other postcolonial privacies / Achille Mbembe

Sex life among young people / Jomo Kenyatta

Eroticism, sensuality, and women's secrets among the Baganda: a critical analysis / Sylvia Tamale

Sex, food, and female power: discussion of data material from northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred

My childhood as an adult molester: a Salt River moffie / Zackie Achmat.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-253-04761-7

0-253-04762-5

OCLC:

1142522652