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| Title: | Sexual diversity in Africa: politics, theory, and citizenship |
| Editors: | Epprecht, Marc Nyeck, S.N. |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 302 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Montréal |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780773541870; 9780773541887; 0773589759; 9780773589759; 9780773589766 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa South Africa |
| Subjects: | homosexuality LGBT gender human rights |
| Abstract: | The essays in this volume represent a cumulated effort by members of the International Resource Network for Africa (IRN-Africa), launched in Senegal in 2007, and other concerned scholars to critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity in Africa. The papers investigate non-normative sexualities and gender variance, testifying to the complex, multifaceted nature of sexuality, sexual practices, and gender performance. Contents: Part One, Framing the debates: Human rights challenge in Africa: sexual minority rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Olajide Akanji and Marc Epprecht); No place like home: African refugees and the emergence of a new queer frame of reference (Notisha Massaquoi); The making of 'African sexuality': early sources, current debates (Marc Epprecht); Rhetorical analysis of President Jammeh's threats to behead homosexuals in the Gambia (Stella Nyanzi). Part Two, South Africa: Military mutilation: the Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the apartheid era (Vasu Reddy, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Crystal Munthree); Constructing the 'ex-gay' subject: cultural convergences in post-apartheid South Africa (Melissa Hackman); The (mis)treatment of South African track star Caster Semenya (Shari L. Dworkin, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Cheryl Cooky). Part Three, Comparative studies: Mobilizing against the invisible: erotic nationalism, mass media, and the 'paranoid style' in Cameroon / (N. Nyeck); 'The one who first says I love you': love, seniority, and relational gender in postcolonial Ghana (Serena Owusua Dankwa); LGBTI community and citizenship practices in urban Ghana (Kathleen O'Mara); Male homosexuality in Bamako: a cross-cultural and cross-historical comparative perspective (Christophe Broqua ); The politics of sexual diversity: an afterword (Sylvia Tamale). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
