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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | Love in Africa |
Editors: | Cole, Jennifer Thomas, Lynn M. |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 265 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Chicago, IL |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
ISBN: | 0226113523; 9780226113524; 0226113531; 9780226113531 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya Madagascar Niger Nigeria South Africa Zanzibar |
Subjects: | interpersonal relations sexuality gender relations courtship mass media social history |
Abstract: | This volume examines how men and women have imagined and negotiated love - the sentiments of attachment and affiliation that bind people to one another - in sexual, predominantly heterosexual, relationships in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The volume began as a double panel at the African Studies Association meetings in Washington, D.C., in 2005. Contributions: 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, 1960-1980 (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). [ASC Leiden abstract] |