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1. Images and narratives of African sexuality have a long origin in stereotype. This volume aims to present a multidimensional view of sex and sexuality on the African continent.
2. Spronk and Hendriks are up-and-coming scholars with interests in anthropology, ethnography, and sexuality in Africa.
3. IUP has a long-standing relationship with the International African Institute to produce a series of textbooks comprised of previously published material about various topics of current interest to Africanist students and scholars. This book is a part of that series and will find an audience with Africanist scholars in humanities and social science disciplines interested in questions surrounding sex and sexuality.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Sources
Introduction: Reading "sexualities"
from "Africa" / Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks
I. Representing "African" Sexualities
1. Is there a distinct African sexuality? A critical response to Caldwell / Beth Maina Ahlberg
2. Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane
3. "Bisexuality" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography / Marc Epprecht
4. On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint / Keguro Macharia
II. Bio-Politics-Sexual Health
5. Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality: Venereal Disease, Biomedicine, and Protectionism in Colonial Lagos, Nigeria / Saheed Aderinto
6. Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on "Female Genital Mutilation" / Wairimu N. Njambi
7. "These Women, They Force Us to Rape Them": Rape as Narrative of Social Control in Post- Apartheid South Africa / Helen Moffett
8. "Transparent Sexualities": Sexual Openness, HIV Disclosure and the Governmentality of Sexuality in South Africa / Marian Burchardt
III. Same-Sex Practices-Gendered Identities
9. A Note on "Woman Marriage" in Dahomey / Melville J. Herskovits
10. Sexual Inversion Among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard
11. "A Man is a Man Completely and a Wife is a Wife Completely": Gender Classification and Performance amongst "Ladies" and "Gents" in Ermelo, Mpumalanga'/ Graeme Reid
12. The Imagined Homoconference: "Activist-ism" and the Politics of Indirection, Serena Dankwa
IV. Love Transactions-Economies of Pleasure
13. The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond "Prostitution"/ Mark Hunter
14. On remuneration for homosexual practices in Bamako / Christophe Broqua
15. Belonging in Ethno-Erotic Economies: Adultery, Alterity, and Ritual in Postcolonial Kenya / George P. Meiu
16. The Pleasures of the City: Masculinity, Sexuality and Femininity in Dakar / Tshikala K. Biaya
V. Mobilizing Religion-Queering Tradition
17. Post-Colonial Histories of Sexuality: The Political Invention of a Libidinal African straight / Basile Ndjio
18. Homosexuality, Politics and Pentecostal Nationalism in Zambia / Adriaan van Klinken
19. "He Uses my Body": Female Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors and Transgender in South Africa / Cheryl Stobie
20. The sexual potentate. On sodomy, fellatio and other postcolonial privacies / Achille Mbembe
VI. Discrete Pleasures-Defiant Agencies
21. Sex Lives among Young People / Jomo Kenyatta
22. Eroticism, Sensuality and Women's Secrets among the Baganda / Sylvia Tamale
23. Sex, Food and Female Power: Discussion of Data Material from Northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred
24. My Childhood as an Adult Molester / Zackie Achmat
List of Sources
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Thomas Hendriks is Lecturer in African Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral research fellow at the KU Leuven University. He has been published in academic journals such as
American Ethnologist,
Sexualities and
Journal of African Cultural Studies.
Rachel Spronk is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of
Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi.
