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Sexual Diversity in Africa : Politics, Theory, and Citizenship.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773589759
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexual Diversity in AfricaDDC classification:
  • 306.7096
LOC classification:
  • HQ73.S498 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE - Framing the Debates -- 1 - Human Rights Challenge in Africa: Sexual Minority Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- 2 - No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference -- 3 - The Making of "African Sexuality": Early Sources, Current Debates -- 4 - Rhetorical Analysis of President Jammeh's Threats to Behead Homosexuals in the Gambia -- PART TWO - South Africa -- 5 - Military Mutilation: The Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the Apartheid Era -- 6 - Constructing the "Ex-Gay" Subject: Cultural Convergences in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- 7 - The (Mis)Treatment of South African Track Star Caster Semenya -- PART THREE - Comparative Studies -- 8 - Mobilizing against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, and the "Paranoid Style" in Cameroon -- 9 - "The One Who First Says I Love You": Love, Seniority, and Relational Gender in Postcolonial Ghana -- 10 - LGBTI Community and Citizenship Practices in Urban Ghana -- 11 - Male Homosexuality in Bamako: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Comparative Perspective -- The Politics of Sexual Diversity: An Afterword -- Contributors -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE - Framing the Debates -- 1 - Human Rights Challenge in Africa: Sexual Minority Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- 2 - No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference -- 3 - The Making of "African Sexuality": Early Sources, Current Debates -- 4 - Rhetorical Analysis of President Jammeh's Threats to Behead Homosexuals in the Gambia -- PART TWO - South Africa -- 5 - Military Mutilation: The Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the Apartheid Era -- 6 - Constructing the "Ex-Gay" Subject: Cultural Convergences in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- 7 - The (Mis)Treatment of South African Track Star Caster Semenya -- PART THREE - Comparative Studies -- 8 - Mobilizing against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, and the "Paranoid Style" in Cameroon -- 9 - "The One Who First Says I Love You": Love, Seniority, and Relational Gender in Postcolonial Ghana -- 10 - LGBTI Community and Citizenship Practices in Urban Ghana -- 11 - Male Homosexuality in Bamako: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Comparative Perspective -- The Politics of Sexual Diversity: An Afterword -- Contributors -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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