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Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa /

"This book is a collection of significant analytical and critical writings on how the structures of power have exerted systematic governance over women. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa also addresses how the rhetorical devices of tradition and modernity have played important roles in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Falola, Toyin, Amponsah, Nana Akua
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
Series:Carolina Academic Press African world series.
Subjects:
Sex role > Africa.
Gender expression > Africa.
Women > Sexual behavior > Africa.
Gender Identity.
Body Image.
Sexual Behavior.
Women > psychology.
Women's Rights.
Africa.
Gender expression.
Sex role.
Women > Sexual behavior.
Frau.
Soziale Rolle.
Afrika.
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.