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245 00 a| Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa /c| [edited by] Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah.;

260 a| Durham, N.C. :b| Carolina Academic Press,c| 2012.;

300 a| xvii, 356 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 26 cm.;

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505 0 a| Jean Pierre Bekolo's Les saignantes (2005) and the Mevoungou : the ambivalence towards the African woman's body / Naminata Diabate -- "I am the rape" : exile, sexual violence, and the body in the poems of Dambudzo Marechera / Z'étoile Imma -- Big buttocks and sultry behavior : perceptions of post-colonial African women in British women's travel narratives / Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué -- Of silences, bended knees and sexuality : insights on the gendered (re)presentations in Yoruba art / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya -- Western religions and female sexuality : engaging dualistic thinking in attitudes to African women's sexuality / Mary Nyangweso Wangila -- Sexualities and the African body : the struggle with sexual rights among Kikuyu women in Kenya, 1918-2002 / Felix Kiruthu, Martha Musalia, and Mildred Ndeda -- Decolonizing homosexuality in Uganda as a human rights process / Caroline Tushabe -- The reality of homosexuality in Africa : the Yoruba example / Ebunoluwa O. Oduwole -- Kodjo besia, supi, yags and eagles : being tacit subjects and non-normative citizens in contemporary Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Advertising as reality? : defining gay in South Africa print media / Janeske Botes -- Dressing the part : dress culture, gender, compliance, and resistance in Mobutu's Zaire / Danielle Porter -- Les Femmes Libre and Mama wa Taifa : constructions of gender in Mobutu's Zaire and Nyerere's Tanzania : 1965-1979 / Jonathan Shaw -- On the promotion of "certain" Ugandan women : was Idi Amin feminist or foe? / Alicia Decker -- "The beauty and rightness of our national costume" : dress, modernity, and women's activism in Northern Sudan / Marie Grace Brown -- Breaking the walls of tradition : male braiders in Nigeria / Sati U. Fwatshak -- Motherhood, women's body and "eating well" : pregnancy, a metaphor of life in the Cameroon Grassfields / Bridget Teboh -- Mothers and grandmothers : strategies of construction of motherhood in Cape Verde / Andrea Souza Lobo -- The good mother and the contaminating mother : experiences and expectations of motherhood following an HIV-positive diagnosis / Gretchen du Plessis and Heidi Celliers -- The "weaponization" of rape and HIV/AIDS in African conflicts / Obijiofor Aginam -- Femininity and the practice of medicine : the Asante experience / Yaw Sarkodie Agyeman.;

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Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa / [edited by] Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah.

Other author	Falola, Toyin.
Other author	Amponsah, Nana Akua.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2012.
Description	xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects	Sex role--Africa. Gender expression--Africa. Women--Sexual behavior. --Africa.

Series	Carolina Academic Press African world series Carolina Academic Press African world series. ^A1108243
Contents	Jean Pierre Bekolo's Les saignantes (2005) and the Mevoungou : the ambivalence towards the African woman's body / Naminata Diabate -- "I am the rape" : exile, sexual violence, and the body in the poems of Dambudzo Marechera / Z'étoile Imma -- Big buttocks and sultry behavior : perceptions of post-colonial African women in British women's travel narratives / Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué -- Of silences, bended knees and sexuality : insights on the gendered (re)presentations in Yoruba art / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya -- Western religions and female sexuality : engaging dualistic thinking in attitudes to African women's sexuality / Mary Nyangweso Wangila -- Sexualities and the African body : the struggle with sexual rights among Kikuyu women in Kenya, 1918-2002 / Felix Kiruthu, Martha Musalia, and Mildred Ndeda -- Decolonizing homosexuality in Uganda as a human rights process / Caroline Tushabe -- The reality of homosexuality in Africa : the Yoruba example / Ebunoluwa O. Oduwole -- Kodjo besia, supi, yags and eagles : being tacit subjects and non-normative citizens in contemporary Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Advertising as reality? : defining gay in South Africa print media / Janeske Botes -- Dressing the part : dress culture, gender, compliance, and resistance in Mobutu's Zaire / Danielle Porter -- Les Femmes Libre and Mama wa Taifa : constructions of gender in Mobutu's Zaire and Nyerere's Tanzania : 1965-1979 / Jonathan Shaw -- On the promotion of "certain" Ugandan women : was Idi Amin feminist or foe? / Alicia Decker -- "The beauty and rightness of our national costume" : dress, modernity, and women's activism in Northern Sudan / Marie Grace Brown -- Breaking the walls of tradition : male braiders in Nigeria / Sati U. Fwatshak -- Motherhood, women's body and "eating well" : pregnancy, a metaphor of life in the Cameroon Grassfields / Bridget Teboh -- Mothers and grandmothers : strategies of construction of motherhood in Cape Verde / Andrea Souza Lobo -- The good mother and the contaminating mother : experiences and expectations of motherhood following an HIV-positive diagnosis / Gretchen du Plessis and Heidi Celliers -- The "weaponization" of rape and HIV/AIDS in African conflicts / Obijiofor Aginam -- Femininity and the practice of medicine : the Asante experience / Yaw Sarkodie Agyeman.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2012015308
ISBN	9781611631531 (alk. paper)
ISBN	161163153X (alk. paper)

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