The 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.
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
University Press of America,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.