Love in Africa / edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas.

Other author Cole, Jennifer, 1966-
Other author Thomas, Lynn M.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
Description265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Sex--Africa.
Sex--Social aspects. --Africa.
Love--Africa.
Love--Social aspects. --Africa.

Contents Introduction: thinking through love in Africa / Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole -- Love, sex, and the modern girl in 1930s southern Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Making love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanzibari audiences, and the construction of romance in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Fair -- "Dear Dolly's" advice: representations of youth, courtship, and sexualities in Africa, 1960-80 / Kenda Mutongi -- Love, money, and economies of intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Providing love: sex and exchange in twentieth-century South Africa / Mark Hunter -- Managing men, marriage, and modern love: women's perspectives on intimacy and male infidelity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi / Rachel Spronk -- Lessons from Rubí: love, poverty, and the educational value of televised dramas in Niger / Adeline Masquelier.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.
LCCN 2008043551
ISBN9780226113524 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226113531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226113523 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226113531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40016778067

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HQ18.A35 L68 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold