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politics of gender and the culture of sexuality
Western, Islamic, and African perspectives
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. In doing so, the author and editor present a multifaceted and dynamic theoretical discourse of gender.
THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND THE CULTURE OF SEXUALITY; Contents; Acknowledgment; Copyright Acknowledgment; Editor's Introduction; Author's Introduction; I. The Politics of the Human Body; 1.1. On Revolution and Nakedness; 1.2. Political Man and the Heritage of Hair: Some African Perspectives; 1.3. The Poetics of a Transplanted Heart; II. The Politics of Sexuality; 2.1. Political Sex: Monogamy and Racialism; 2.2. Monogamy and Descent in Black-White Relations; 2.3. Suttee and Levirate in Black-Brown Relations; 2.4. Africa's Triple Heritage of Play: Reflections on the Gender Gap.
2.5. On Gender and Power: A Post-Colonial Sexual Equation2.6. Inter-Racial Mating and Cross-Racial Milestones: From Princess Diana to Barack Obama; III. The Politics of Gender; 3.1. The African Renaissance: A Triple Legacy of Skills, Values, and Gender; 3.2. Language Planning and Gender Planning: Some African Perspectives; 3.3. The Black Woman and the Problem of Gender: An African Perspective; 3.4. The Dialectic Between Men and Women: The Legacy of 'A'isha; IV. The Politics of Citizenship; 4.1. Armed Kinsmen and the Origins of the State: An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology.
4.2. Gender, Skill, and Power: Africa in Search of Transformation4.3. From Kinship to Citizenship; 4.4. The Warrior Tradition and the Masculinity of War; 4.5. Gandhi, Marx, and the Warrior Tradition: Towards Androgynous Liberation; 4.6. Post-Liberation Movements: In Search of Racial, Sexual, and Class Utopias; V. The Politics of Population; 5.1. Islamic Doctrine and the Politics of Induced Fertility Change: An African Perspective; 5.2. Ethnicity, Power, and Population in Eastern Africa; 5.3. Population Control and Social Justice: An African Perspective; Conclusion; Index.
Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality : Western, Islamic, and African Perspectives
Lanham : University Press of America, ©2014