Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa

Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa
Toyin Falola, Nana Akua Ampons ...
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2012, Carolina Academic Press
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Table of Contents

Jean Pierre Bekolo's Les saignantes (2005) and the Mevoungou : the ambivalence towards the African woman's body / Naminata Diabate
"I am the rape" : exile, sexual violence, and the body in the poems of Dambudzo Marechera / Z'étoile Imma
Big buttocks and sultry behavior : perceptions of post-colonial African women in British women's travel narratives / Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
Of silences, bended knees and sexuality : insights on the gendered (re)presentations in Yoruba art / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya
Western religions and female sexuality : engaging dualistic thinking in attitudes to African women's sexuality / Mary Nyangweso Wangila
Sexualities and the African body : the struggle with sexual rights among Kikuyu women in Kenya, 1918-2002 / Felix Kiruthu, Martha Musalia, and Mildred Ndeda
Decolonizing homosexuality in Uganda as a human rights process / Caroline Tushabe
The reality of homosexuality in Africa : the Yoruba example / Ebunoluwa O. Oduwole
Kodjo besia, supi, yags and eagles : being tacit subjects and non-normative citizens in contemporary Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara
Advertising as reality? : defining gay in South Africa print media / Janeske Botes
Dressing the part : dress culture, gender, compliance, and resistance in Mobutu's Zaire / Danielle Porter
Les Femmes Libre and Mama wa Taifa : constructions of gender in Mobutu's Zaire and Nyerere's Tanzania : 1965-1979 / Jonathan Shaw
On the promotion of "certain" Ugandan women : was Idi Amin feminist or foe? / Alicia Decker
"The beauty and rightness of our national costume" : dress, modernity, and women's activism in Northern Sudan / Marie Grace Brown
Breaking the walls of tradition : male braiders in Nigeria / Sati U. Fwatshak
Motherhood, women's body and "eating well" : pregnancy, a metaphor of life in the Cameroon Grassfields / Bridget Teboh
Mothers and grandmothers : strategies of construction of motherhood in Cape Verde / Andrea Souza Lobo
The good mother and the contaminating mother : experiences and expectations of motherhood following an HIV-positive diagnosis / Gretchen du Plessis and Heidi Celliers
The "weaponization" of rape and HIV/AIDS in African conflicts / Obijiofor Aginam
Femininity and the practice of medicine : the Asante experience / Yaw Sarkodie Agyeman.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham, N.C
Series
African world series

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.3096
Library of Congress
HQ1075.5.A35 W66 2012, HQ1075.5.A35 W66 2013, HQ1075.5.A35W66 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL25330823M
ISBN 13
9781611631531
LCCN
2012015308
OCLC/WorldCat
844452576

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