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Re-thinking sexualities in Africa

Author: Signe Arnfred; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
Publisher: Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Re-thinking sexualities in Africa.
Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, c2004
(OCoLC)654826858
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Signe Arnfred; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
ISBN: 917106513X 9789171065131
OCLC Number: 54973723
Notes: 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.
Description: 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 sexualtiy 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.
Other Titles: Rethinking sexualities in Africa
Responsibility: edited by Signe Arnfred.

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