{"product_id":"readings-in-sexualities-from-africa-hardback-9780253047601","title":"Readings in Sexualities from Africa (Hardback) 9780253047601","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReadings in Sexualities from Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel Spronk (Edited by), Thomas Hendriks (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253047601\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e380 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.6 cm, 1.134 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eImages 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reading \"sexualities\" \u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003e\"Africa\" \/ Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Representing \"African\" Sexualities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Is there a distinct African sexuality? A critical response to Caldwell \/ Beth Maina Ahlberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the \"Hottentot Venus\" \/ Zine Magubane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. \"Bisexuality\" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography \/ Marc Epprecht\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint \/ Keguro Macharia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Bio-Politics—Sexual Health\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality: Venereal Disease, Biomedicine, and Protectionism in Colonial Lagos, Nigeria \/ Saheed Aderinto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on \"Female Genital Mutilation\" \/ Wairimu N. Njambi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. \"These Women, They Force Us to Rape Them\": Rape as Narrative of Social Control in Post- Apartheid South Africa \/ Helen Moffett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. \"Transparent Sexualities\": Sexual Openness, HIV Disclosure and the Governmentality of Sexuality in South Africa \/ Marian Burchardt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Same-Sex Practices—Gendered Identities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. A Note on \"Woman Marriage\" in Dahomey \/ Melville J. Herskovits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Sexual Inversion Among the Azande \/ Edward E. Evans-Pritchard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. \"A Man is a Man Completely and a Wife is a Wife Completely\": Gender Classification and Performance amongst \"Ladies\" and \"Gents\" in Ermelo, Mpumalanga'\/ Graeme Reid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. The Imagined Homoconference: \"Activist-ism\" and the Politics of Indirection, Serena Dankwa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Love Transactions—Economies of Pleasure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond \"Prostitution\"\/ Mark Hunter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. On remuneration for homosexual practices in Bamako \/ Christophe Broqua\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Belonging in Ethno-Erotic Economies: Adultery, Alterity, and Ritual in Postcolonial Kenya \/ George P. Meiu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. The Pleasures of the City: Masculinity, Sexuality and Femininity in Dakar \/ Tshikala K. Biaya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Mobilizing Religion—Queering Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Post-Colonial Histories of Sexuality: The Political Invention of a Libidinal African straight \/ Basile Ndjio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. Homosexuality, Politics and Pentecostal Nationalism in Zambia \/ Adriaan van Klinken\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. \"He Uses my Body\": Female Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors and Transgender in South Africa \/ Cheryl Stobie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e20. The sexual potentate. On sodomy, fellatio and other postcolonial privacies \/ Achille Mbembe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVI. Discrete Pleasures—Defiant Agencies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e21. Sex Lives among Young People \/ Jomo Kenyatta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e22. Eroticism, Sensuality and Women's Secrets among the Baganda \/ Sylvia Tamale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e23. Sex, Food and Female Power: Discussion of Data Material from Northern Mozambique \/ Signe Arnfred\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e24. My Childhood as an Adult Molester \/ Zackie Achmat \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525311263000,"sku":"9780253047601","price":63.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/readings-in-sexualities-from-africa-hardback-9780253047601","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}