Love in Africa
By: edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas.
Contributors: Cole, Jennifer, 1966-; Thomas, Lynn M.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780226113524; 9780226113531
Subjects: Sex -- Africa; Sex -- Social aspects -- Africa; Love -- Africa; Love -- Social aspects -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: thinking through love in Africa / Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole; title: Love, sex, and the modern girl in 1930s southern Africa / Lynn M. Thomas; title: Making love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanzibari audiences, and the construction of romance in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Fair; title: "Dear Dolly's" advice: representations of youth, courtship, and sexualities in Africa, 1960-80 / Kenda Mutongi; title: Love, money, and economies of intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar / Jennifer Cole; title: Providing love: sex and exchange in twentieth-century South Africa / Mark Hunter; title: Managing men, marriage, and modern love: women's perspectives on intimacy and male infidelity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith; title: Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi / Rachel Spronk; title: Lessons from Rubí: love, poverty, and the educational value of televised dramas in Niger / Adeline Masquelier.