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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Epprecht, Marc. Heterosexual Africa?. Athens : Ohio University Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008009908 (OCoLC)192056185 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marc Epprecht |
ISBN: | 9780821442982 0821442988 |
OCLC Number: | 636888503 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages). |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | A puzzling blindspot, a troubling silence, a strange consensus: reflections on the heterosexual norm in "African AIDS" -- The ethnography of African straightness -- Ethnopsychiatry and the making of gay Shaka -- Slim disease and the science of silence -- Alternatives and ambiguities : African voices in literature and film. |
Series Title: | New African histories series. |
Responsibility: | Marc Epprecht. |
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"This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field." - Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex "(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers." - The Gay & Lesbian Review "This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa.... Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude." - Anthropos "Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy-both intellectually and politically-in contemporary Africa." - T. Dunbar Moodie, Hobart and William Smith Colleges "Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men's same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies." - African Studies Review "Epprecht's argument-that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts-has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists." - International Socialist Journal "Epprecht's own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa.... the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long." - Bulletin of the History of Medicine Read more...


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- Homosexuality -- Africa -- History.
- Gays -- Africa -- History.
- Africa -- Social life and customs.
- Africa -- Politics and government.
- AIDS (Disease) -- Africa.
- HIV infections -- Africa.
- Homosexualité -- Afrique -- Histoire.
- Homosexuels -- Afrique -- Histoire.
- Sida -- Afrique.
- Infections à VIH -- Afrique.
- Afrique -- Mœurs et coutumes.
- Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
- AIDS (Disease)
- Gays.
- HIV infections.
- Homosexuality.
- Manners and customs.
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