Re-Thinking Sexualities in Africa

Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute, 2004. Quarto in grey photo illus wraps; 276 pages: illustrations; 25 cm; bibliographical references. Fine (as new) with faintest of edge-wear to wraps/. Paperback. ISBN: 9789171065131

"This volume sets out to investigate critically existing lines of thought about sexuality in Africa, while also creating space for alternative approaches. Issues of colonial and contemporary discourses on 'African sexuality' and on 'female genital mutilation' are discussed, as are issues of female agency and of feminist engagement with HIV/AIDS. The volume contributes to current efforts to re-think sexualities in the light of feminist, queer and postcolonial theory."--Jacket. "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."— Publisher. // Contents: Re-thinking sexualities in Africa: introduction / Signe Arnfred -- Under western eyes -- 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 -- Problems of pleasure and desire -- 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 -- Female agency -- Understanding sexuality in Africa: diversity and contextualised diversity / 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 E. Modupe Kolawole. // Sex role -- Africa -- Congresses. Sex customs -- Africa -- Congresses. Women -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Women -- Sexual behavior -- Africa -- Congresses. Sex role -- Africa. Rôle selon le sexe -- Afrique. Femmes -- Afrique. Rôle selon le sexe -- Afrique -- Congrès. Vie sexuelle -- Afrique -- Congrès. Femmes -- Afrique -- Conditions sociales -- Congrès. Femmes -- Sexualité -- Afrique -- Congrès. Sex customs. Sex role. Women -- Sexual behavior. Women -- Social conditions. Geschlechterrolle Sexualverhalten Gender identity -- Africa. Women -- Africa. Sex -- Africa. // Aufsatzsammlung. Conference papers and proceedings. // Africa. Afrika