Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa
By: [edited by] Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah
Series: African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611631531
Subjects: Gender expression; Sexual behavior; Sex role; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jean Pierre Bekolo's Les saignantes (2005) and the Mevoungou : the ambivalence towards the African woman's body / Naminata Diabate; title: "I am the rape" : exile, sexual violence, and the body in the poems of Dambudzo Marechera / Z'étoile Imma; title: Big buttocks and sultry behavior : perceptions of post-colonial African women in British women's travel narratives / Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué; title: Of silences, bended knees and sexuality : insights on the gendered (re)presentations in Yoruba art / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya; title: Western religions and female sexuality : engaging dualistic thinking in attitudes to African women's sexuality / Mary Nyangweso Wangila; title: Sexualities and the African body : the struggle with sexual rights among Kikuyu women in Kenya, 1918-2002 / Felix Kiruthu, Martha Musalia, and Mildred Ndeda; title: Decolonizing homosexuality in Uganda as a human rights process / Caroline Tushabe; title: The reality of homosexuality in Africa : the Yoruba example / Ebunoluwa O. Oduwole; title: Kodjo besia, supi, yags and eagles : being tacit subjects and non-normative citizens in contemporary Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara; title: Advertising as reality? : defining gay in South Africa print media / Janeske Botes; title: Dressing the part : dress culture, gender, compliance, and resistance in Mobutu's Zaire / Danielle Porter; title: Les Femmes Libre and Mama wa Taifa : constructions of gender in Mobutu's Zaire and Nyerere's Tanzania : 1965-1979 / Jonathan Shaw; title: On the promotion of "certain" Ugandan women : was Idi Amin feminist or foe? / Alicia Decker; title: "The beauty and rightness of our national costume" : dress, modernity, and women's activism in Northern Sudan / Marie Grace Brown; title: Breaking the walls of tradition : male braiders in Nigeria / Sati U. Fwatshak; title: Motherhood, women's body and "eating well" : pregnancy, a metaphor of life in the Cameroon Grassfields / Bridget Teboh; title: Mothers and grandmothers : strategies of construction of motherhood in Cape Verde / Andrea Souza Lobo; title: The good mother and the contaminating mother : experiences and expectations of motherhood following an HIV-positive diagnosis / Gretchen du Plessis and Heidi Celliers; title: The "weaponization" of rape and HIV/AIDS in African conflicts / Obijiofor Aginam; title: Femininity and the practice of medicine : the Asante experience / Yaw Sarkodie Agyeman.