Re-thinking sexualities in Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Other Authors:	Arnfred, Signe
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, [2004]
Subjects:	Sex role > Africa > Congresses. Sex customs > Africa > Congresses. Women > Africa > Social conditions > Congresses. Women > Sexual behavior > Africa > Congresses. Sex role > Africa. Women > Africa.

Table of 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.