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Readings in Sexualities from Africa

By Rachel Spronk; Thomas Hendriks

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
0253047617, 9780253047618
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3847498 bytes)
Series
Readings in African Studies
Pages
380\380
Time added
2021-06-06 09:17:39

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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. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Note on Sources Introduction: Reading “Sexualities” from “Africa” / Thomas Hendriks and Rachel Spronk Part I. Representing “African” Sexualities 1. Is There a Distinct African Sexuality? A Critical Response to Caldwell / Beth Maina Ahlberg 2. Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Poststructuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the “Hottentot Venus” / Zine Magubane 3. “Bisexuality” and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography / Marc Epprecht 4. On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint / Keguro Macharia Part II. Biopolitics—Sexual Health 5. Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality: Venereal Disease, Biomedicine, and Protectionism in Colonial Lagos, Nigeria / Saheed Aderinto 6. Irua Ria Atumia and Anticolonial Struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: A Counternarrative on “Female Genital Mutilation” / Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi 7. “These Women, They Force Us to Rape Them”: Rape as Narrative of Social Control in Postapartheid South Africa / Helen Moffett 8. “Transparent Sexualities”: Sexual Openness, HIV Disclosure, and the Governmentality of Sexuality in South Africa / Marian Burchardt Part III. Same-Sex Practices—Gendered Identities 9. A Note on “Woman Marriage” in Dahomey / Melville Jean Herskovits 10. Sexual Inversion among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard 11. “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 12. The Imagined Homoconference: “Activistism” and the Politics of Indirection /Serena Owusu Dankwa Part IV. Love Transactions—Economies of Pleasure 13. The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond “Prostitution” / Mark Hunter 14. On Remuneration for Homosexual Practices in Bamako / Christophe Broqua 15. Belonging in Ethnoerotic Economies: Adultery, Alterity, and Ritual in Postcolonial Kenya / George Paul Meiu 16. The Pleasures of the City: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Femininity in Dakar (1997–2000) / Tshikala Kayembe Biaya Part V. Mobilizing Religion—Queering Tradition 17. Postcolonial Histories of Sexuality: The Political Invention of a Libidinal African Straight / Basile Ndjio 18. Homosexuality, Politics, and Pentecostal Nationalism in Zambia / Adriaan S. van Klinken 19. “He Uses My Body”: Female Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors, and Transgender in South Africa / Cheryl Stobie 20. The Sexual Potentate: On Sodomy, Fellatio, and Other Postcolonial Privacies /Achille Mbembe Part VI. Discrete Pleasures—Defiant Agencies 21. Sex Life among Young People / Jomo Kenyatta 22. Eroticism, Sensuality, and Women’s Secrets among the Baganda:A Critical Analysis / Sylvia Tamale 23. Sex, Food, and Female Power: Discussion of Data Material from Northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred 24. My Childhood as an Adult Molester: A Salt River Moffie / Zackie Achmat List of Original Sources by Chapter List of Contributors Index About the Author

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