The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality: Western, Islamic, and African Perspectives

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The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. This book describes the impact of individual contexts and politics on meanings attributed to the human body. The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality explores how men and women relate to each other in monogamous and polygamous marriage, race rivalries, slavery, miscegenation, cultures of procreation, family planning, and the Islamic view of women’s dignity vis-à-vis the Western view of women’s liberty. In doing so, the author and editor present a multifaceted and dynamic theoretical discourse of gender. THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND THE CULTURE OF SEXUALITY Contents Acknowledgment Copyright Acknowledgment Editor's Introduction Author's Introduction I. The Politics of the Human Body 1.1. On Revolution and Nakedness 1.2. Political Man and the Heritage of Hair: Some African Perspectives 1.3. The Poetics of a Transplanted Heart II. The Politics of Sexuality 2.1. Political Sex: Monogamy and Racialism 2.2. Monogamy and Descent in Black-White Relations 2.3. Suttee and Levirate in Black-Brown Relations 2.4. Africa's Triple Heritage of Play: Reflections on the Gender Gap 2.5. On Gender and Power: A Post-Colonial Sexual Equation 2.6. Inter-Racial Mating and Cross-Racial Milestones: From Princess Diana to Barack Obama III. The Politics of Gender 3.1. The African Renaissance: A Triple Legacy of Skills, Values, and Gender 3.2. Language Planning and Gender Planning: Some African Perspectives 3.3. The Black Woman and the Problem of Gender: An African Perspective 3.4. The Dialectic Between Men and Women: The Legacy of 'A'isha IV. The Politics of Citizenship 4.1. Armed Kinsmen and the Origins of the State: An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology 4.2. Gender, Skill, and Power: Africa in Search of Transformation 4.3. From Kinship to Citizenship 4.4. The Warrior Tradition and the Masculinity of War 4.5. Gandhi, Marx, and the Warrior Tradition: Towards Androgynous Liberation 4.6. Post-Liberation Movements: In Search of Racial, Sexual, and Class Utopias V. The Politics of Population 5.1. Islamic Doctrine and the Politics of Induced Fertility Change: An African Perspective 5.2. Ethnicity, Power, and Population in Eastern Africa 5.3. Population Control and Social Justice: An African Perspective Conclusion Index